Class Races.

The cold and sleet made the weather so bad for rowing yesterday that with in five minutes of starting the judges were undecided whether the race should be rowed. The boats took their position about ten minutes after four, and had to wait in the cold ten minutes before the signal was given. Ninety-two caught the water first, then ninety and ninety-three, and ninety-one last.

The sophomores rowed about 38 strokes and maintained the lead for half a mile, with the crews following in the order they had started. A little below the Crescent Boat House the seniors took the lead, rowing in good form, and about thirty-seven to the minute; ninety-one passed the freshmen and pressed the sophomores hard for second place, and soon obtained it. The fast pace was telling on the sophomores, and just before they reached the Harvard bridge they fell behind ninety-three All four crews were lapped when they went under the bridge, which is about half way down the course; the seniors led the juniors about half a length and were rowing a quick stroke. From here ninety-one spurted and gained a slight lead. Ninety-two was out of the race by this time. At half a mile from the finish ninety pushed to the front again, ninety-one not quickening the stroke above thirty-six at any time. The freshmen made a splendid fight and within the last quarter of a mile gave the juniors a very close rub, but just at the finish ninety-one went ahead of them. The seniors won in eleven minutes from the start, the juniors were three quarters of a length behind them and the freshmen about a yard behind the juniors; there was clear water between ninety-three and ninety-two.

The new bridge interferes with tugs so that they can never again be a feature of the races as they have been formerly. Yesterday, besides the referee's tug, there was only a freshman tug which got in the way before the start and delayed the crews in getting off. Perhaps it was the exposure to the cold which this occasioned that made several of the oarsmen succumb under the strain of the race. Stroke and seven of the seniors fainted at the finish, which is a little less than a mile and seven-eighths from the start. Bow of the sophomores was exhausted at the bridge, and stroke of the juniors became unconscious at that point, and did not come to till he was in the Union Boat House. He went through the rest of the race mechanically, and this accounts for the very slow stroke of the ninety-one crew in the last half mile.