Harvard Drubbed

"A good fight well fought" was the epithet used to describe the Varsity boat race at the 57th Yale-Harvard Regatta.* The outcome was never in doubt, even before the event started; in such circumstances, Harvard's performance was a high tribute to their courage, determination and sportsmanship.

The four-mile stretch of the Thames was ablaze with crimson and blue. Two observation trains which had been pulled out of New London were crowded with Yale and Harvard students and their friends and parents. The greatest assembly of yachts ever seen together on the river and off supplied a wonderful setting to America's historic boat race.

The largest Yale flag ever seen flew from the mast of the Whileaway, Payne Whitney's yacht, but the largest Harvard pennant seen that day was on the end of a cane carried by Miss Barbara Whitney on the observation train. Miss Whitney is to be married to Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard Captain.

The Corsair, yacht belonging to J. P. Morgan', and the Aloha, belonging to Arthur Curtiss James, ex-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, were among the 200-odd boats seen on the river.

Strewn along the banks and across the bridges were the assembled multitudes-old Yale and Harvard graduates, young graduates, undergraduates, pretty girls wearing the colors of their favorites, all with lusty voices. Somewhere a big brass band was crashing out Boola Boola. Somewhere else a great shout went up. The race had begun.

Almost at the crack of the starting pistol Yale shot a quarter of a length ahead of Harvard. For half a mile the race was fast and close, but little by little the Elis left their rivals behind and the race became slower. It soon became clear that the Blues were taking things easy and no effort at speed was made until the last quarter-mile, when the Yale crew made a final but unnecessary spurt which sent them to victory in a majestic and exultant sweep, four lengths ahead of the Crimsons. Then the Blue crew for the fourth year in succession sat up and grinned at one another as the spent "red bellies" glided home. Little cheering was heard, probably because the issue had long been decided in the minds of the spectators.

In the Freshman Race and the Junior Varsity Race Yale won by three and one lengths, respectively, and therefore made a clean sweep of the river. It was one of the most successful campaigns ever waged by Yale against Harvard.

The moment the Yale shell touched shore, the crew sprang out to the smart one, two, threes of the cox, dashed away for a shower and to dress and then to the special train that was waiting to take them to Manhattan and the ship that is to carry them to France, for they will represent the U. S. in the eights races in the Olympic Games.

*Yale has won the Varsity race 30 times, Harvard 27 times.