New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-15
THE RACE.


THE RACE.
A boating correspondent of THE TRIBUNE
gave warning some time ago that the Corncn
University crew were likely to put their COM
petitors TO some trouble, and the prediction
was strikingly reinforced by the splendid VIC
tory of the Freshmen of Ithaca on Tuesday;
vet the public was certainly not quite pre-
narcd for the result which brought the carne-
liam and white colors first to the line yesterday
also. and so heapcd upon the youngest OF the
rival colleges both the highest honors of the
week. 1t seems but yesterday that the flag OF
Cornell appcaIed for the first time at the
college races; it is actually only TWO years
since regular crew was first organized at the
college. Last Summer Cornell was nth among
nine: in 1873, out of the discrcdl'ab!e cohiu-
sion and uproar at Springfield, 1t was no easy
matter to discntanglc the position or any oi
the boats, even the first place. on that occaSioh'
being enormously assigned Tor scino
time to Harvard instead of Yale; Cornell,
however, was placed pretty near tue emu
of a string of eleven, and we believe the
highest place claimed for her was the min.
At all events, neither last year nor the year
before did these sturdy young fellows show
their adversarieS much reason To DC alralu vi
them. The superb feat they have now accom-
nlsbcd is the result of sheer logged hard
work. perseverance, and weli-dlrected amDi-
ton. They have studied their own faults, ana
laborcd beroicaly to overcome them. ana
the whole country will hurrah with them III
the hour of their triumph, knowing that this
is victory of real American pluck, knowing
too that nothing could do more ~ rouse IA
healthful spirit of emulation among the col
legcs and stimulate interest i'll the art OF row.
ing than this extraordinary success OF new
college in striding right up within two years
from the rear to the very 'front.'
The race was so full of interesting and un-
expected incidents and of close and doubtful
struggles that we shall probably not go aniss
in STYLING it one OF the very finest our waters
have ever witnessed. Columbia, Harvard, Dart
mouth. and Cornell contested the inst place
with wonderful pcIsistency, ami there can be
little doubt that our New ioIk City boys would
have repeated the victory they won last year.
had it not been for Il trifling accident just
before the finish: az it was, they came III
second, only length behind Cornell. Dart
mouth astonished every one by winning the
fourth place and Harvard held the third, to
which by this time she ought to he pretty well
accustomed since she has occupied 1t three
wears running. Yale j. either pursued by IA
malign fate or lacks the necessary pOisc and
GOODNESS for such contest. Last year,
as the sequel to series Of unpleasant
encounters with Harvard, she broke an oar
and dropped out of the race; yesterday she
applied herself industriously to the noble pas
tn lao. finIsb
behind Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Dart
mouth and Wesleyan. But despite individual
faults and mishaps it was II magnificent race,
in which there was little more than minutes
difference between The first crew and the last,
and every boat, even Princeton, which left
the course with one of its men insensible, even
the novice which had never been in regatta
before covered itself with honor.
The time of the first four boats was not
quite so good as in 1874, Columbia winning
that year in 1912, and Wesleyan coming
second in 1850, while Cornel1s time yestcr-
day is given as 16.53l4, and COlumbias as
| 1904. This difference, however, is per-
haps accounted for by the wind, or by
something in the condition of the water, or
the weather, and we have ample cOmpensa-
ton for it in the remarkable progress of the
colleges which have heretofore been the most
backward. There is not one of them which
may not go into the regatta next year with
fair prospect of winning the victory. And if
encouragement is to be found in the good
record the crews have one and all
made for speed, still more is to be gath
cred from the remarkable good order which
distinguished the regatta yesterday above all
its predecessors. The new regulations worked
to a charm There were no unreasonable
delays. There were none of Il postponements
which nearly destroyed the interest of the contest
last year. There were no fouls and no quar-
rels and we may reasonably hope that this
time the great university beat race will not
leave behind it the usual crop of heartburn
ing and rccIminatiOns
CONSTITT1TONAL AMENDMENT IN NORTH
CiRDLINd.