The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-07-10
BADLY, BEATEN.

the grand stand. Then the Cornell men
were received with Kisses.
They stopped rowing before they passed
the judges, who hoisted the signal "not
rowed out. "
The band played "God Save the Queen"
as the crowd cheered itself hoarse, and
poor Fennell lay as II dead in the bottom
OF the boat, while his nearest companions
splashed water In his face. Happily, he
soon recovered and the Cornell crew
slowly padded to their boathouse, which
was situated about quarter OF q mile
beyond the finish.
The Cornell men presented a sorry sight
as they arrived at the boathouse, where
their friends In waiting did not know the
result, but there was no necessity Tor ask
ing the question. The appearance of the
crew only too surely gave the answer
Tears stood In Roe's eyes as he stepped
ashore, and the crew were SO exhausted
that they could scarcely lift their boat
from the water.
Several members of the Cornell Glee
Club tried TO arouse the dropping spirits
of the Cornell crew, saying: "You have
no reason to feel ashamed You did your
best.'
Colson, the Cornell coxswain, deserves
credit for the way he kept his head and
encouraged the crew. He kept shouting
to his men, while they were tumbling
about: "Steady boys, steady. Go ahead.
You nave got tnem.
The general opinion Is that the Cornell
crew were hopelessly overtrained, and
that there was no climate or malaria
about 1t.
Colson, who acted as spokesman for the
Cornell crew said: "We had hard race,
and we were fairly and squarely beaten. "
'Has the crew been overtrained?" Col
son was asked.
"Mr. Francis orders that there should
be no talk on that subject" was the
answer.
Upon reaching their dressing room,
half of the Cornell crew lay down on the
rough board floor and painted like hounds
gular attendants, the members OF the
Cornell Glee Club, who were present,
acted as rubbers and assisted in washing
down the crew with cold water. The other
Cornell men outside the dressing room
enlivened the proceedings by giving the
college yell, and again and again at the
full strength of their lungs.
In the meantime, the large boathouse
had become crowded with Americans, and
this had a cheering effect upon the de-
feated crew.
In addition. number of Englishmen
belonging to Henley, called at the Cornell
boathouse and expressed themselves as
being sorry that the Americans were
defeated.
~rhe following are expressions which
some of the Cornell crew made after
dressing:
F. W. Freeborn-"The Englishmen are
the better men,"
George p. Dyer-'I think we have
nothing to be ashamed OF.
Tom Hall-"I am not sorry we came."'
{. A. Louis-''It is waste of time to
talk about defeat"
Fennell, 1t appears, was i'll when he
entered the race today, suffering from a
valvular affection OF the heart, which
caused big lump on his left side. Ac-
cording to his version, he caught a crab
when the Cornell boat was passing the
halfmne post and his oar struck him a
tremendous blow on his left side, both
seeming to paralyZe his legs. He was able
to use his arms, but could not recover with
the rest. The great exertion he was max
ing caused him to faint in Free born's
arms and the terrible struggle the rest of
the crew were obliged TO make did them
up one after another. Fennell tried
again and again TO do his part, but he
tainted three times.
As the Cornell crew pulled to the judges
stand in order to go through the formali-
ty OF leaving their weights, they were all
looking like death.
About the stand was a crowd of Lean
der men in their boats and one of them
said: 81 suppose you lost on account of
the hard race you had yesterday"
Another Leander man jeeringly re-
marked: "Of course, you're coming
again in '96?''
The Cornell men made no reply to these
sneers.
Trinity Halls time in the race with
Cornell was I'm. los. The record time is
6m. Sis, made by a Leander crew and
the cup was won last year in I'm. 22s.
In the third heat of the race for the
Thames challenge cup, Kingston beat the
French crew of the Societe Encourage
ment Au Sport Nautique, and in the
fourth heat the crew of the Molesey
Rowing Club beat the crew of the London
Rowing Club.
In the second heat for the Stewards
challenge cup the crew of the London
Rowing Club beat the crew of the New
College, oxford.
In the fifth heat New College beat Eton
in the race for the grand challenge cup.
In the fifth heat of the Thames chal-
lenge cup the ST. Johns College, Oxford,
crew beat the eight of the Anglican Boat
Club.
In the third heat:for the Stewards Chal-
lenge the crew of the Thames Rowing
Club beat the crew of Leander Boat Club.