San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-09
AMERICA VS.. ENGLAND.
CORNELL WINS THE CHALLENGE
CUP.
A False Start By the Sleepy Eng
lish Crew Lost Them the Race.

derby in Great Britain opened to-
day and is one OF the most interest
ing on record. This is mainly due
to the fact that seven entries for
the great challenge cup, aBlue
Ribbon" includes that OF the crew
from Cornell university, Ithaca, N.
Y. The grand challenge cup
was first competed for in 1889.
The Leander Rowing club, COM
posed mostly of ex-Oxford and
Cambridge oarsmen, is the holder
of this trophy, and the Leander
Boat club holds the record for this
race, 6 minutes, 81 seconds, made in
1891 over the Henley course, one
and one.half miles.
The weather this morning was
warm and cloudy and light wind
blowing from the Buckingham.
shire shore, but by the time Of the
first heat at noon very strong
wind was blowing from the same
direction, giving the crews great
advantage. In fact although very
fast time will not be made II the
wind continues as 1t Is now, every
crew on that side Of the river will
win. Sundays rest and yester-
days light practice had a perma-
nent effect for the betterment Of
Cornell crew. They rose early this
morning, and after light break
fast, which had been preceded by
good rub down, they arrived at the
boat house at 800 in good spirits
and confident OF victory.
Charles Courtney, coach OF the
Cornell crew, was sick in bed this
morning and did not come to the
boat house with the young men
from Ithaca. The Cornell crew
left their boat house at 10 o'clock
and padded their racing shell
slowly to the starting point. The
weather was then warm and cloudy
and a light wind blowing from
Buckingham shore. The scene on
the river was of unusual animation
even for Henley. A large fleet OF
boats and other crafts moored
along the banks Of Buckingham
shore gaily decorated with flags
and filled with large parties Of
fashionable people.
The course was staked with
white posts, upon which numerous
signal flags were flying.
The Cornell crew entered their
boat at the following weights:
M. w. Roe, bow, l69 pounds; Il.
o. Spillmsn, No. 2, 1872 pounds; f.
G. Hager, No. 3, l66 pounds; F. w.
Freeborn, No. 4, III pounds; 7.
Fennel, Jr., No. b. l53 pounds; Geo.
p. Dyer, No. 6, 16l pounds; @. A.
Louis, No. 7, 160 pounds; Tom.
Hall, stroke, liza pounds; r. ID.
ColseD, coxswain, 100 pounds.
To these weights are added three
pounds OF dead weight to make up
the minimum required for the cox
swain.
There are only "a pounds differ
ence in the weights OF the two
clubs, emitting the coxswains.
The Leander crew refused to
start when the word was given,
and the Cornell crew rowed over
the course.
At a rough estimation, fully
$1,000 people were present at the
regatta today. Judging from the
number Of American flags flying
from all sides, and by many IA
miliar faces about the water, it is
estimated that 5000 Americans
were present. One of the prettiest
house boats on the river was that
Of Frank Mckay, Of Chicago, and
w. j. Ritchie, of San Francisco. On
deck were assembled large party
of Americans, including Mr.. and
Mrs. M. III. De Young, San Fran
cisco; Mr.. and Mrs. G. NJ. Palmer
and others equally we'll known.
Among other prominent Ameri-
cans here today were Mr.. and Mrs.
Richard Croker, New York; j. e.
Resell, Washington f. N. Juddon,
st. Louis; Elwyn Baron, Chicago;
Jas. j. Belden, Syracuse; Edward
Knox, Peter Morris and j. G. Cum
mings, New York.
John E.Wilkie, of Chicago, drove
a party to Henley from Maiden
head, on a coach. His guests in.
cluded Messrs. Percy Fearn and M.
A. Fuller and the two Misses Full
Ter.
Messrs. Hall and Frye, OF the
Cornell Glee club, and fully three
hundred American students and
their friends were assembled on
the little knobs along the course.
Among the crowds Of Americans
present were noticed Jefferson Le-