Killer v. Tiger

Of the eight Harvard oarsmen who outrowed Yale at New London last year, six, five of them juniors, were in Coach Charley Whiteside's boat again this spring. But because Yale had beaten Cornell and Penn, Coach Ed Leader had good reason to expect his Yale boat to go on undefeated from New London last week to the Olympic trials at Worcester, Mass. In calm water, after a windy day in which Harvard's junior varsity and Yale's freshmen had won their races, Harvard got away first with Gerard ("Killer") Cassedy, son of a onetime Cambridge plumber, setting a long slow beat that his men picked up smoothly behind him. At the half mile, Yale, at Stroke John H. ("Tiger") Jackson's faster beat, had caught up and got a deck's length lead. What happened then made it clear how the race would end. Yale hung even for an instant, then dropped back. Killer Cassedy had not raised his beat but the Harvard boat, with a splendid run between strikes, pulled out ahead, a quarter length at the mile, a full length at two miles, three lengths and a quarter at the finish in a lane of yachts whose whistles saluted the winner before either boat had crossed the line.

This file is automatically generated by a robot program, so reader's discretion is required.