The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-06-23
MUST FIRST DEFEAT CORNELL.
That L. What Yale. Must Do Before 1t
Can Row Oxford.

Can Row Oxford.
For a number Of years Cornell has
been making every fair and sportsman
like effort to bring about race be-
tween her crew and Y lie, but the New
Haven men have off red every excuse
imaginable whenever the subject was
mentioned by the officers Of the Cor
nell navy, and have never until this
year given them any satisfaction or
answer which might be cons trued In
the least degree favorable to such an
arrangement
When Cornell, in 1875. won the in.
tercollegiate regatta, defeating Yale,
along with twelve other competitors,
the New Haven men withdrew from
the association, and said to Cornell
"Our policy Is only to row Harvard. !"
Many times have the Ithscans sent a
polite invitation to New Hsysn asking
tor race, and then, waiting for a race
until patience ceased to be virtue. Is
sued an open challenge to row Yale 'Ht
any time. in any water and for any dis
tgncs"
With q long list Of uninterrupted
victories, eleven In number, in eight
cared shells Cornell thinks that she has
some claim on Yale before the latter
has any right 80 row any foreign crew
as An American reprssent tative.
Yale 10 very desirous of rowing Ok.
ford. and to that end the Yale athletic
team is going over as sort OF fore
runner to this greater international in
tsrcollegiats regatta. The most inn
portant feature Of the proposed race
between Oxford and Yale Is this: The
former has written to Cornell which
letter Commodore Brown has in his
pocket saying that Oxford will never
row Yale until the New Haven crew
defeats Cornell or any other worthy
claimant to intercollegiate acquatic
championship honors in America,
She realizes that Yale is a power in
rowing. but she is also aware that
Cornell has o record Of eleven years un-
interrupted victories in eight-oared
shells She knows that Courtney has
never coached losing crew, aud that
with Cornell making such open and
manly propositions to Yale as she has
for years that it would be an empty
honor for any English crew to row
Yale, aud even il the Englishmen won
they are too, sportsmanlike to give the
affair an international character with a
great rowing college like Cornell left
behind over in America unanswered
but yet undefeated.
Just what Yale will do, now that she
has received her ultimatum from OK
ford. is an unanswered question. That
she wants to test her skill with the
Englishmen is ackno wledged by Cap
tain Cook, but now that the only way
for her to accomplish this is to first de-
feat Cornell, places the New Haven
university in>S position that she Is not
used to, ons OF being dictated TO, and
just how shs will conduct herself un-
der this drawn rein is o matter Of great
speculation. The question that sports.
men ask Of each other is, "Why should
Yale row Coruell?" Every non .parti-
san who saw Saturdays race
believes Cornell is the fastest
crew In the world. Every man who
ever sat In a good Yale srew knows that
Yale has nothing to accomplish in row.
ing Harvard. for the latter has not
much OF rowing reputation.
She has no decisive stroke Of her own
and no coaches. Courtney has seen
many Harvard crews, and was at Cam
bridge inspecting tho work Of the mon
last fall at the request Of the Harvard
captain, and ho says that both Cornell
aud Pennsylvania would defeat Har-
yard with ease philadelphia Ledger.