Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-20

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g.. NklI blades. Since then ;
SJ[M the rowing colleges
" N~ have abandoned ,
IN skies. tried tours,
| and have settled on
| Fights as aifording the fairest test OF ,
| aquatic prowess The old intercollegiate
| races. inaugurated in 1871, were rowed in
| skies The first year only three crews COM ,
| peted-the Massachusetts Agricultural Col
| lege. Harvard and Brcwn-and they fin.
| ished In that OF der. The distance was three
| miles straightaway. The following year
Amherst. Bow doin Williams and Yale were
| added. Amherst lad an unusually fast
| crew and created new record for the
| distance. winning in 3D. a record wa.cn
| stands yet unequaled. Harvard was Sec .
| ond. Massachusetts Agricultural third and
Bowdoin. Williams and Yale in the order
named.
| In 1873 Wesleyan, Dartmouth. Columbia,
Cornell and Trinity joined the association.
| Yale jumred from the ignominy of last
| place in 1872 to winner in 1873, Wesleyan
| being second by only two seconds. Harvard
| third and Dartmouth Amherst, Columbia,
| Bowd Din, Massachusetts Agricultural, Cor
| nell Trinity and Williams as named.
| Princeton was the only new conner in 1874.
| Columbia won: Wesleyan second. Then
| came Harvard, Williams, Cornell. Dart
| Houlfls fElDcetOn ana Yale.
| Hamilton and Union colleges sent crews
| In 1873 but finished far In the rear their
| time was not taken. Cornell won: Column
| bia second. Then came Harvard, Dart
| mouth, Wesleyan. Yale, Amherst Brown,
| Williams and Bow doin. Princeton with
| drew. In 1876 the crews had dropped to
| six in number. Cornell won, Harvard sec
| ond; then Columbia, Union, Wesleyan and
| Princeton
| The withdrawal of Yale and Harvard
| caused the dissolution Of the association.
| These two colleges decided to confine their
rowing to their annual race. IL was gen.
| orally felt that intercollegiate race
without Yale and Harvard would be in
| complete.
The ChfIds Cup.
| Outside match races there were no in
| tercollegiate contests until Mr.. George w.
| Chids donated the Childs cup. to be rowed
| for by fours the Schuylkll Columbia
had in 1873 sent fast four 10 the Henley
regatta in England. which had won the
cup for college fours, and this stimulated
| that class of rowing in this country. Cor
nell. University of Pennsylvania, Bow
| dom, Princeton and Wesleyan began
| training fours and in 1879 Columbia Wes-
| leyan and Cornell met on Lake George in
| a mile and half straightaway race. CO.
| lcmbia won in the remarkably fast time of
] SIC, making a new record. Wesleyan
| was second, Cornell last. The same year
| Princeton, Columbia ami the University
| OF Pennsylvania rowed for the Childs cup
| on the Schuylkill the same distance. Penn
/ sylvania winning. Harvard that year de-
| feated Yale in Fights over the four-mie
| New fondon course in 2o15, making a
| record which was not broken until Yale
| created a new record in 1888. 2oia CO.
| lumbia that year defeated Wesleyan, row.
| ing in fours.
Columbia, Cornell and PENNSYLVANIA met
| again in fours on Lake George in 1881
| This time Cornell won. Pennsylvania sec
| ond and Columbia third. but Columbia won
| the Childs cup race at Philadelphia, de-
| feating Princeton and Pennsy lvania
Cornell's champion four went to Eng
| land in 1881, but were barred from the
| college race. In the open race they Were
beaten. Princeton this year defeated Co.
| lumba and Pennsylvania for the Childs
| cup, and Columbia sent eight against
| Harvard but was beaten.
| The following year witnessed a revival
| of the intercollegiate race in tours on
| Lake George. Pennsylvania won, Wes-
leyan second Princeton third. Cornell
| fourth and Bowdoin last 1t a mos;
| hotly contested race. One of the Cor.
nell crew collapsed and Princetons stroke
| tainted just after the line was crossed.
| Pennsylvania again won the Childs cup
| race at Philadelphia. Columhia's eight
defeated Harvard's eight I'm a four-mile
| race at New London.
| In 1883 Cornell's four again won AT Lake
| George. Pennsylvania being second. and
| Pennsylvania for the third time tho
Childs cup at Philadelphia: Harvard's
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| sylvania's four defeated Cornell AT Sara
| toga, and also in the Childs cup race at
| Philadelphia Harvard's eight again beat
| Coumbia's. In 1885 the race I'm college
| fours was trans ferred to Lake Quinsiga-
| mond Bowdoln, Cornell Pennsylvani
and Brown took part. There were a MANI
| Der of fouls and the given to
| Bowdon. Next year the crew went back
| to Lake George, where Bowdon's four
| NON, making the new record of SIG for
| one and half miles Straightaway. Penn
| sylvania was second.
| Cornell wiped out her defeat in 1885 at
Lake Qunsigamond by winning the Childs
| cup race at Philadelphia, defeating Penn
! syIvania and Columbia, the latter taking
| Prnoeton's place. In 1856 Pennsylvania
| again won the Childs cup race by default,
| no other crew appearing. Cornell won the
| race for intercollegiate fours in ISL on
| Lake Quinsigamond and this ended the
| races of the associa ton. She also took the
| Childs cup race by defaulA This ended the
| college rowing in fours.
| Meanw bile Colombia and Harvard had
| leen having their annual race in eights.
| Harvard won in 1854 and 1885,. Columbia in
| 1856 and Harvard IN 1887.
| Yale and Pennsylvania in the meantime
| had arranged annual races in Fights at
| New London. The first was rowed in 1856
| and the last I'm 1889, and Yale won all.
They We're rowed over the four-mile course.
| In 1889 Pennsylvania and Cornell met in
| Fights, when Cornell won. They have
since met yearly. fortune favoring Cornell.
| One year the race was transferred to Lake
| ducements offered.
! Record Of Winners.
Last year Columbia entered the race be-
| tween Pennsylvania and Cornell at Poueh-
keepsie and won. Cornell being second and
| Pennsylvania third. This year Harvard
| enters. 1t was the general wish OF Loaf
| ing men that Yale would enter. but the
| New Haven students preferred an English
| trip. Next year it is safe to saw that the
| wearers Of the blue will he found lined up
| with the other four and the Intercollegiate
| Rowing Association will have begun an
| other period OF its existence. one which it
| is to be hoped will not be short one.
| The following is the record of winners OF
| the intercollegiate Associations events:
| Year. Institution. Oars Dist Time
| lSLl-Mass Agricultural. q BIN. l741Ia
| lN2-Amherst -.......... g 3m. 1861
! 1SI3-lale ............... q BIN. 1859
| lSd4-oiumbia q I'm. 1862
| 1Sl3-Cornell ............- o 3m. 1891
| lS.6-CornHll ............ 6 Sm. 11.o1i.