St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-14
CORNELL COURAGE.
It Is Delightfully."- Shown In
the Sending Of a Crew
Abroad.
WILL COMPETE AT HENLEY.
The Comedians Will Try TO
Win From the Famous
Leander Crew.
WILL COMPETE AT HENLEY.
GREATREcoRDoF VICTORIES
The Ithaca Collegians Have
Not Been Defeated IN
Ten Years.

ITHACA, N. Y, April 13.-When II
was announced last fall that Cor
nell would enter an eight in the Hen
lev regatta for grand challenge cup
If was considered presumptuous that
thew should consider it advisable 10
contend against the beSt-equlppeu
aggregation of rowing talent that
is assembled anywhere in the world.
The entries in this race are MADE
from carefully picked crews OIL
France and other European coun-
tries, including the renowned Lean
der crew of England, composed Oh
the best men on the oxford and cam
bridge Fights. 1t is true, then, that
Cornell has undertaken great task
However, the entry has been MADE,
passage has been engaged on the
American line steamer Paris, ana
the crew will sail on May 20, thus
having a month for training and
acclimatiZa on the other side
before the race, which takes place
the first week in July. The Cam
bridge University Boat club has Of
fered the Cornell crew the use OF
their club house for training quar-
tiers, and every kindness has been
rendered to the prospective visitors.
Cornell fully appreciates the re-
sponsibility of this
AMBITIOUS VENTURE.
but surely no crew on this side Of
the Atlantic has a better claim to
enter the great race than Cornell
has A glance at her past record
on the water will be sufficient to
demonstrate the fact. Rowing was
first taken up seriously at Cornell in
1873, when she entered varsity four
in the intercollegiate regatta at
Springfield, Mass. Cornell was de-
feated in that race, coming in fourth.
In the next year the intercollegiate
was held at Saratoga, and Cornell
again suffered defeat. finishing fifth,
with Columbia first and Harvard
second. Yale, the winner of 1873,
finished ninth place in 1874.
II remained for Cornell to demon
y
1875 and 1876 The victories of those
two years are the memories which
caused Cornell hearts to swell with
pride. It was then that Saratoga
was aglow with the carnelian and
white, and the very atmosphere,
seemed charged with the Cornell
slogan Two crews were sent to
Saratoga in 1S75-a freshman and a
varsity. The freshman were vic
torious over Harvard, Brown and
Princeton The varsity defeated
Harvard, Columbia, Yale and nine
other college crews in the three-mile
race for skies. The eXultatlon
over these brilliant victories knew
no bounds, for it was a glorious be-
ginning of what was, in few years,
to be recognized as
CORNELL SUPREMACY.
on the water. She again entered
freshman and varsity crews in the
Saratoga regatta of 1876, winning
the varsity race easily from Har-
ward, Wesleyan, Columbia, Prince
ton and Union. Her freshman crew
also defeated Harvard and Column.
bia. and the carnelian and white
was the first to finish in the single
Scull race, which was won by ChaS.
S. Francis, rs. She thus placed to
her credit three events of the re-
gatta of 1876. With this year the
Rowing Association of American
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isfied and refused to send a crew
to the regatta of 1876 The humilia-
ton of again pulling in behind six
college crews was more than she
would willingly risk. Accordingly,
she proposed to Harvard an eight
cared race, to be rowed on the Con-
necticut river, at Springfield. By
the withdrawal of Yale and Har-
ward, the association was broken
up, but Cornell had demonstrated
her proWess on the water by win
ming every event she entered in 1875
and 1876. Cornell entered no races
in 1877, refusing to row Columbia.
or Greenwood lake In 1878, how
ever, Cornell'S freshman's crew de-
feated Harvard at Owasco lake, and
in the same year her varsity crew
won the national regatta at Sara
toga. The first defeat of Cornell
since 1874 was experienced at Sara
toga in 1879, when Columbia showed
the Ithacans that over confidence
before a race was likely to result
in humiliation afterward. The Cor
nell crew lacked enthusiasm and
zeal, and was very lax in it's train
ing. However, that defeat was very
beneficial to Cornell boating inter
ests, and demonstrated the fact that
crew cannot merely win on the