The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1876-08-05
Another Word to Cornell.

Another Word to Cornell.
1t is reported that the Cambridge crew will
not, after all, row in the "open amateur
fours" at Philadelphia, but, leaving Eng
lands name there in the keeping of Gulston
and his far-famed London rowing four, will
concentrate every effort on the 'intercolle-
giate fours." This is most shrewd and
shows that our visitors well know what they
are about when there is rowing to be done;
for we come to the score in this contest with
but two crews neither of which ever rowed
in four-oared race-those of Yale and Co.
lumbia. If beaten it will simply not be
true that we have done all we could. Yale's
weakness is in this, that her only race this
year was one where she so overmatched her
rival that she was never driven, and it is i'm
possible to say how she would have done had
she, as last year, had to meet crews who at
the start led her, SO that, while there is great
reason to think that she is excellent, it is not
conclusive. With Columbia it seems to be
an off year, and she takes besides o very
eleventh hour man who good as he was in
thepast, can hardly get himself into thorough
condition in the time left him.
With all this we would try to be content
if it was really the best we could do but
the race few days ago on Saratoga Lake
showed clearly that it is not crew that
led that race from the first stroke to the
finish, coming from an institution with un-
questionably the most brilliant record in
American university rowing, record unfair
nished by even the shadow of spot, now,
when yet more distinguished foreign uni
versity comes great distance to prove us
inferior in this manly sport, practically
declines to face the danger. And this with
out one solitary reason that will stand for
moment. Her captain says, "We have
already spent as much time at boating as is
advisable for any college amateurs to spend
in one summer" But he should remember
that it is said that President White told him
that he had done more for Cornell University
than any other man since it was founded,
and that if by now whipping the Cambridge
crew he can make her fair name not only
national but international three short weeks
spent in doing il do not look to most people
to be much time wasted, especially when
they come at the end of three whole years
spent in the same way, but in striving for a
fame which, beside the present one, is but
local and temporary
Again, he says it would take month to
have four built to suit his crew. Har-
lem River, and oil oarsmen the coun-
try round, must have laughed when
they read that When John Blakey
built Harvard's six in 1874 in less
than forty hours, when Fearon and
Elliott and half u dozen others of our best
builders itch to show that four can be
ready at even shorter notice when the coun-
try's reputation is at stake, when there are
doubtless lying on Waters shelves at Troy
enough of fast paper tours to almost float the
whole Cornell navy, better reason must be
given than that if the public are expected to
believe it.
Third, he says that because six can row
successfully four cannot necessarily. No,
but they are mighty likely to, especially
under coach like him, and it did not take
much looking this year to see that one of his
two new men slowed the boat after the first
mile and helped to account for the poorer
time than last year, while one of the remain
ing five does not look as good man as any
of the other four.
Finally he says that as the College Rowing
Associations challenge was declined by the
foreign crews they cannot expect Cornell to
row them merely out of courtesy Neither
is she asked to but she is asked, when we
are attacked ut our own door by brave and
unquestionably dangerous foreign foe, to
help show him that we cannot be so attacked
with impunity; she is asked not to let him
90 home victor when we had men here who
could have made him tell quite different
tale she is asked to do what she can to
show every Englishman that America has
sons who can in any test Of skill and stam-
ina and pluck, meet any men who breathe
and come out of the fight victorious and that
those sons stand ready whenever the occa-
sion calls. 1t calls now, and it calls most
loudly, for Captain Ostrom and the men he
holds back. Let him clutch it, as does Yale,
as does Columbia, and if he and his are
beaten no man can say that Cornell was
afraid. But if he does not, and no better
reasons exist than he has given, every man
can and every man will.
The PRESIDENT AND THE WHIsKEY
THIEVES. We hear from Milwaukee that the
President has pardoned Nunnemacher, one
of the heads of the Wisconsin Whiskey Ring
Nunnemacher has made vast sums OF money