The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-07-20


stake boat the Welsyan crew made 4
splendid Ipurt, and drew ahead Of the
Harvard, taking the Sec0sd place
OherS came in Ai different distances
behind The Wesleyan crew ClLmsA iOul
on Columbia, and the general EsaultiB IN.
BAtlsiActOry.
Comparatively few persons, save col.
legians and their friends, were present,
and the hotel stand RAS not half occupied.
YGles failure 10 come In takes q great
pGIi Ol the interest away, and her friends
claim the race TO be LARRY hers.
There are bets making that the race
will be ToWed over. All the crews are Si.
iecied BY the prolonged anxiety, and II is
feared that some will beilL. All have lost
. great deal Of sleep by their anxiety
Reeves, Of the Columbia crew, tainted
when the race was over.
The hnAl decision will be given BY the
referee al Congress Hall At 2 o'clock. The
crowds on the hotel piazzs are now
Cheering Columbia.
THE oEYrcnL DRcIsIoE OF THE JUDGES,
The following Is the official decision Of
the judges 10 the race to-day:
columbia first, Wesleyan second,
Harvard third, Williams fourth, Cornell
tlh, Dartmouth sixth, Princeton and
Trinity doubtful, Yale ninth.
"On account Of the resignation Of the
timekeeper, communicated 10 the jn1ges
Immediately before the departure OF the
referees boat iOT the starting point, NO
official time has been reported TO them.
"The following claims OF foul made to
the referee, in accordance with Rule II, +,
were decided as follows: Harvard q
Yale and Yale VS, HArVArd-ClAims diSAl.
lowed, in accordance with Rule Il;
YalG's claim not entertained, as Yale VIC
lA,ed Rules and under which the race
was rowed. Wesleyan e. Columbia-Not
sustained, IS steering Of each boat was
somewhat wild, with no apparent willlul
attempt 10 foul. This decision Is In &C
cordsnce With Rule IA
Referee, William Wood.
William II Brocklesby, RUFUS Ander.
son, Richard Gross, Parker o. Chandler
and D. 4 Moore, judges"
Although no official time was taken,
Commodore B. +. Brady recorded the
time Of Columbia at G42t, Wesleyan
1850, Harvard 1884, Williams l789t
1t is claimed by Dartmouth that they
came in fourth, and CrAmer, the engineer,
has made oath that Dartmouth was
fourth. The judges have possibly made
an error. Williams also claims thefourIh
place. .
The village presents carnival appear.
Ance TO night.
When the collision took place between
Yale and Harvard, occupying but lew
seconds, Columbia shot ahead, and taking
the lead, kept 1t TO the end, pulling
steady. strong stroke. The Ward broth.
ers, who were near by when Yale iouled,
say but for that event the race would
have been between Columbia and Har'
ward, with the chances in lavor Of the
latter, though they admit the Columbia
crew acquitted themselves splendidy
They say Yale stood no chance whatever
OF winning the race.
After the race, early In the day the Co.
lumbis and Wesleyan crews marched
through the streets, carrying symbolic
crown, and later, about 2, the Yale men,
with Captain Cook on the shoulders OF
two men at their head, marched through
the piszzs Of the principal hotels. sing
ing The feeling between Yale and Har-
ward Is very bitter, and Cook has chal-
lenged the winning crew 10 another race
Three grand balls in honor Of the re.
gatLa arc In progress at the Congress,
Grand Union and United States Hotels
All colleges are well represented.
The Columbia crew and victorious COL
oTs will arrive in New York, by the Hud.
son River Railroad, Monday al O'Clock.
STATEMENT RY CAPTAIN OF YALE CREW
NEw YORK, July ls.-A dispatch from
Saratoga gives the following statement Of
the race, made by Captain Cook, Of the
Yale crew: II started out on thirty
strokes TO the minute. Harvard soon
took the lead at about thirty-eight 10
the minute. 1n the first hall mile
they gave US their wash and we
steered of east. They jockeyed US to the
east q second time, and we steered of
again, but on the third tima we passed
them cleanly, and as our stern went by
| lucy huuCR lne EuuueT hOu ul5AOleu ue,
Our bow oar was thus driven under their
bow and snapped. l will never row a
Harvard man again without three hund-
red feet margin, and they have got to row
Us again now and never challenge. l told
Dana that he couldn't win that race, and
he could not have done 1t except for a
foul, and he can't beat US II he dRres to
try"
THE VICTORY OF THR COLUMBIA GREW,
As soon as the victory Of the Columbia
crew became known in this city the flags
on City Hall were run up 10 full mast
amid cheers from the loungers in the park
and crowds in front Of the bulletin boards
Of the neighboring newspaper offices, aud
in = short time flags were flying from
nearly every hotel and public building.
In the evening In the hotels and bar
rooms the victory was the whole topic OIL
conversation, while the boys in bands IL
different sections celebrated II by aparade
through the streets,
NEW YORK CITY.