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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
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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. But the most per-
fectly good feeling prevails all round;
and the really broad-minded supporters
of Henley rejoice to think that ‘the in-
sular exclusiveness is a fad of the few,
and that foreign oarsmen have won, and
thoroughly deserve, the heartiest British
sympathy for their courage and enter-
prise in defence of cosmopolitan oars-
manship.
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