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ontinued from first page. ] mas also been altered, and altogeth- Yale crew are admitted now to suite as good work as any of ~ I do not think they will win, positive they will provide us one of the most exciting races ever ssed at Henley. » Sketch speaks through a corres- nt on July 1: she brief time they have been the Yale crew have already ¥ — hemselves popular with rowing meopie. * * * So far as I have seen the Yale crew are gentlemen sportsmen—men who will take ichory at Henley with modesty or defeat without ill-will.” an article on the “Yale Crew at Henley * in the Golden Penny for July 4 accurs the following: “Having accomplished the greatest ambition of American college men in and field sports in England, Yale is now to attempt the same for beating. An eminent authority on American sport has declared that if Stars and Stripes are run up after the last race of the Henley regatta, Yale will have accomplished a work that in ats friendly results between the United States and England will reach far beyond the realm of boat- ing in establishing a respect for Americans and a iirm and lasting friendship between the two nations; for it is a notable fact that the firm- est ties that bind the peoples of the two countries to-day are the out- growth of sports.” HOW THE DEFEAT WAS TAKEN. Much disappointment for the time being was felt among the Yale con- tingent at the defeat of their crew, but this feeling was not too strong to prevent them giving the winners their just congratulations and hearty cheers. They admitted candidly that their crew was beaten by a beuter eight and the crew and coach express- ed themselves more than satisfied with the thoroughly sportsmanlike treatment which they had received. The Englishmen for their part, ac- cording to the London Chronicle, ‘‘had scancely the heart to cheer their own crew so keenly did the Americans evidently feel the disappointment of their hopes.” The race is described by this same paper as follows: — Yale started at a faster stroke but Le- ander got the lead at once, rowing one stroke a minute less than their oppo- nents. Then Yale shook themselves to- gether. The boys were fresh; they were amazingly strong; a Slight lead at the beginning never dazed them in the least, and they pulled that papier-mache boat ahead before the end of the Regatta Island had been reached. A storm of cheering burst on the two crews as they opened out into the straight course that ended in the judge’s box. Yale was two men ahead, Leander set their teeth and swung out farther, and the distance Y Lr ‘o. ey —— , = Lic. tha Liit lessened. Slowly, very slowly, the boats — crept together again, and at the quarter mile they were again dead level. For the next 400 yards it was a true struggle of the giants fit for the gods to see. Nothing seemed to tire those American arms. The Yale bodies rushed forward perfectly together. The broad Yale blades clashed in together and ripped through with a sound of tearing paper, and still the nose of Yale’s boat kept a few inches to the front. But thie terrific pace was beginning ito tell on the whole American crew, and their stroke had slowed down to a _ machine-like thirty-eight, which became even jerkier than before. At the half-mile Yale seemed suddenly to stop; four, who had peen pulling like a Titan, missed his stroke, and Leander rushed up like a flash, six feet, twelve feet, a quarter of a length, the pink oars gained, while the dark blues were still flurried and un- steady. But Treadway backed up _ his stroke in gallant fashion, and Yale showed they were not done with yet. Amid frantic exhortations from both sides of the river, which seemed alive with waving dark blue flags, the Ameri- cans made one more desperate effort to pick up the leaders. But the race was over.. Leander’s swing got longer and longer as the Yale boys shortened, and the remainder of the course produced not so much a fine struggle of one boat against another as an extraordinary ef- fort of the plucky Yale crew to over- come the difficulties and errors of their style. OPINIONS OF THE ENGLISH PRESS. Among the comments upon the race pubiished in the English press the following are especially interesting and significant: — YALE CREW AN ATTRACTION. (The Speaker, July 11.) The peculiar interest of this year’s meeting lay in the appearance of a crew from Yale. After all that has happened of late in athletic contests with America, after the reverses sustained there by our champions, and the unhappy history of Lord Dunraven’s yacht, the news that an eight from Yale University would en- ter for the Grand Challenge Cup caused an excitement that Henley races do nat ee ae bo A Lo UC NS NAT Ode ee often rouse. The presence of the visitors was attested not only by the great blue flag with the big Y upon it which floated conspicuously in the landscape but also by the large number of Americans who had assembled, as they hoped, to witness their compatriots’ victory. It fell to the Yale crew at the outset to have to meet the strongest eight upon the river, and the race for the cup, in the eyes of many spectators, was practically rowed in the heat between Yale University and the Leander club. The result was what only those who had compared the English and American systems of rowing could have foreseen. The Yale crew were stronger and heavier than their rivals. They showed to the end, even when victory became impos- sible, a pluck and endurance which no English team could have surpassed. The muscular power which they displayed was amazing, and even when their mus- cles failed them their determination held out and carried jthem over the course. But they fell victims to a system whose mistakes they had probably never had an opportunity of discovering before. The fact is that the Americans rowed with their arms, and the Englishmen rowed with their backs and their legs, and the result only proves what in this country has been long established as a truism of rowing, that the man who uses only his arms must infallibly succumb in the long run to the man who works with his back and his legs as well. - The Yale men are trained only to row ‘@ short course of five hundred yards. For that course their system, difficult and wearing as it is, has been shown to be sufficient and effective. But if the strain be prolonged beyond that, if the race be extended from a short, sharp spurt to a longer struggle, such as the course at Henley, or even more formidable course from Putney to Mortlake, then no arms alone can be trained to stand it, and the crew which relies on its arms is bound to fail. The famous race on Tuesday is, in fact, a testimony to the admirable sys- tem of our rowing men, and we have little doubt that it will lead to some modifications in the system taught at Harvard and at Yale. YALE’S VICTORY. (The Western Press, July 10.) The Yale crew were beaten on the first day, but their defeat occasioned no un- seemly jubilation on this side of the At- lantic, whilst on the other it has en- gendered no rancour. AS a matter of fact, the New York press has spoken of the event in the most generous terms —differing entirely from those employed last year when the Cornell fiasco oc- curred. But the latter arose from a com- plicated set of misunderstandings, the memory of which had better be com- mitted to oblivion. The victory of Yale this year would have been popular. But it was impossible, and the Americans themselves frankly declare that they were beaten under the fairest possible conditions, and have proved their sinceri- ty in many ways that could only be sug- gested by the truly gentlemanly instinct. And in thus manfully accepting defeat, the Yale men have gained another and even more important victory—a victory over the lurking suspicion that foreign competitors are treated with scant con-— sideration at Henley. 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