The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1885-07-06
THE WORCESTER REccTTA.
5000 People Witness the IntercoI-
Iegiate Race.
Several Fouls Occur and the Race
Unsettled.
The Bowdoin and Brown Crews to
Row Again.

WoRCEsTER, July 4.-Over $1,000 people
gathered along the shores of Lake Quinsig-
amond and mingled their voices with the
college 'rahs which greeted the different col
llege ,colors as they gilded oyer. the walls go
ing to position from their headquarters
Regatta Point was filled up with grand
stand loaded with people and private car
riages with ladies and old college partisans
held prOminentipositions where the cOlors
waving from their whip-tops or displayed as
hat-bands, made the scene as attractive as it
was lively. favorite equipment for the
collegians was a small broom held in their
hats, which were heavily and grotesquely
decorated with their ribbons. The symbol of
its failure to carry did not disturb the boys
or cause their removal. The colleges each
had a judge at the starting point; John
Lewis, n, of Ithica, N. T. acted for Cornell
and T. d. Liyermore of Providence for the
Browns, R. L. Hart, '79 for Pennsylvania,
and A. E. Eustis, 'S2 for Bowdoin. The
crews all got false start, caused by Brown
going off too soon at the caution, Are you
ready?' They were all called back and
Brown this. time suffered in the start, &C.,
Brown demurred at this, claiming that they
answered no when asked if they were ready
but evidently nobody heard them, and they
did not persist in this claim of a false start.
dashed along most beautifully, BowdOin inn
mediately struck a terrific gait with A.
stroke evidently intending to win the race
at the start sand hold it; but Cornell and
Pennsylvania striking up 40 strokes to the
minute, which is very fast for both crews,
were not to be shaken off just here not
hundred yards from the start, there begun
the bad steering by the three leading crews
which caused the unsatisfactory result of the
race. Cornell struck over into Bowdoin's
water and Pennsylvania drew away from its
place on the east shore toward Bowdoin.
The BoWdoin captain yelled to the Cornell
men to take care, but on they came and in
moment the oars struck. Bowdoin stopped
rowing for moment and the captain threw
up his hand to call the attention of the ref
cree. The shock was so great that No. in
the Bowdoin boat struck his heel with great
force against the bottom of the frail cedar
shell, splitting a long crack in it, through
which the water slowly oozed during the
remainder of the race The wrench in the
Cornell boat threw the delicate steering ap-
paTatus out of gear, and rendered it useless
for the rest Of the distance
1t is claimed by the substitute of the Bow
dom who, was watching close that Pennsyl-
yania and Cornell. who had Bowdoin be-
making a thus pocketing the Bowdoin
crew and keeping them out of their course,
and about this time it is claimed by the Bow
doins they were fouled by the Cornells.
The crews became so badly mixed up at
this point as to make it difficult to decide lust
where their relative merits lay. Cornell
finally got a lead on Bowdoin and finished
the race in Pennsylvania's water, being OBJ
liged in doing so to cross right over the Bow
doin course. AS an excuse Cornell urged
counter claim against the Bowdoin's, and
said that one of the Bowdoin oars had struck
one of theirs causing wrench in the boat,
which loosened the rudder and made them
powerless to steer their boat over their own
course. Pennsylvania also claimed that the
/; Bowdoins fouled them by crossing their bow
and going into their water ohlipino them tn
lose several strokes. The strokes per min
ute for every quarter of the first mile except
for the Pennsylvania crews last quarter was
as follows: