The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-06-25
CORNELL WINS.
i, GAME AND PLUCKnLY-FOUGHT
RACE.
Harvard Second by Length, Penn
syIvnnia Third by Three-Quar-
ters; Columbia Fourth by Fifteen
Lengths.


Skill and hard pulling won the day for
| Cornelfs freshmen eight in the firsd
of the two big four-cornered university
boat races, which took place this af-
ternoon. The shells finished in the or
der:
Cornell, first; HARVARD, second by a
length; Pennsylvania. third by three
quarters of length; Columbia, fourth
by a full fifteen lengths.
The official time was 1918, 1922.
10:261a, 1851, respectively.
There was misunderstanding ait the
START in the manner Cf giving the sig
nails to be off, and on account of thai
Harvard has tonight entered a formal
protest against the awarding of the
race. 1t will not be effective, however,
as in order to make it so it would be
necessary to have three of the crews
enter protests, and this Will not be
done.
Out on the river, just out side of the
police lines, twelve or fifteen steam and
schooner yachts, with streamers from
bow to stern, lay waiting. About 4:40
there was an abatement in the rain. The
SOU Invest wind livened up and the
| crowds began to gather along the river,
and at 5:15, when the rain had entirely
ceased, the shore was lined along the
mass of spectators.
Probably 10000 people witnessed the
finish of the race.
The crews were promptly in position
at half past five O'Clock. There was
very little enthusiasm in the crowd O.
500 people on the observation train as
the crews passed in front. There was
a leveling of fed glasses at tfe
Columbia. boat when she appeared
EVERYBODY WAS ANXIOUS
to see if Chao, who was suffering from
a. touch of intermittent fever, was one
OF the crew. Sure enough, there he sat
at No. 4, grasping his oar as if his life
depended upon his Individual efforts.
His physicians had given him orders
not to enter the boat, but the plucky
little Spaniard insisted upon handling
an oar Tonight considerable criticism
Is heard by Coach Sturgis allowing
Chao TO row. There can be no doubt
that the crew was vitality weakened by
his presence in the boat.
Inc Harvard freshmen took their
place at No. 1, nearest the west shore.
/ with a very deliberate air of conf
! dence. They caused some delay in the
race, however, by dragging their stake
boat fifteen feet below the line. The
start was made at 5:39:22. The
DELAY AND TROUBLE
in lining Harvard up ratified Rives. for
ne gave the crews a very poor start
b, He asked if they were ready. ALI of
! the coXSwains raised their heads ex-
cept little Plum in the Harvard boat
Rives either did not see him or thought
he ought to be ready, for without
further warning, he shouted: Go. -
Rlves had arranged to fire pistol as
the starting signal, and his verbal
sign created confusion. Cornell, Co.
lumbia and Pennsylvania, however,
got the water promptly Three sec
onds later Rives fired his pistol and
the Harvards got Off The referees
error had no effect upon the ultimate
result of the race.
Though Harvard got off late, they
caught the water which was choppy,
owing to a combination of ebb tide
and southeast wind, with a powerful
stroke and at once took second place,
tapping their boat for a quarter of
its length on the Cornell she'll.
At the beginning all the crews rowed
a nearly uniform stroke of Sc to the
minute.
CORNELL LED AT THE HALF.
Harvard coming next, length ahead
of Pennsylvania, and Columbia. two
lengths in the rear of the Quakers.
Cornell gained a little on the field and
passed under the bridge which marked
the mile length and half ahead of
the crimsons, who were one and one
quarter lengths in advance of Penn
sylvania, the latter in turn leading
the New Workers by four lengths. At
the first mile Cornell and Pennsyl-
Sania dropped their strokes to "a,
al 10 LIoy o,-l 1T
ed SO, the latters stroke being entirely
devoid of snap or power. On the first
half of the second mile, Cornell wild
ened the gap between her shell and
Harvard's to two lengths. Pennsyl-
vania again led the Cambridge boat
by a quarter of a length, while Column
bia had fallen back to six lengths. AT
a mile and a half all the crews were
pulling "a a minute, except Columbia,
whose men were sticking their oars
into the water as if they
WE'RE so MANY sTILETTos
at the rate of IS a minute Coming
down the last half, Harvard made one
of George Munford's pet spurts, which
closed them up on the Cornell crew
by a length. They were unable, how
ever, to shake the Quakers, who made
q squirt at the same time and the
crews crossed the finish line in the fol
lowing order: Cornell, one leng.
ahead of Harvard, which was scant
length in the lead of Pennsylvania,
with Columbia fifteen lengths behind
the bunch.
Cornell crossed the line at 5:49:4O
1t was a game and pluckily fought
race, Cornell's victory being due solely
to hard wor.- on home waters before
they came to Poughkeepsie.