Yesterday's Race.

For the past few days there has been talk of having a race between the 'varsity and the '88 class crew, - the 'varsity of course giving a handicap. Accordingly, yesterday afternoon the race came off over the regular Charles River course. At about half past five the crews rowed out to the starting point at the Brookline bridge, - the 'varsity allowing their competitors four lengths. Both crews made good starts, '88 rowing about 34 strokes to the minute, and the 'varsity a trifle faster. As the boats came down the river the 'varsity gradually closed up the gap between them and '88, - at the Crescent Boat House there were but three lengths between them, and at the sluice way, scarcely two. Just below this point, at about three quarters of a mile from the finish, the '86 crew joined in the race, - starting just ahead of the 'varsity. Down the last half mile, the three boats came, almost together, '88 leading by about a length. At about two hundred yards from the finish the 'varsity spurted, and passing both its competitors crossed the line half a length ahead of '86, and three quarters of a length ahead of '88. On the whole, the race was one of the prettiest seen on the course for some years, fully repaying the sixty or seventy students who had come into town to see the finish.