The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-06-25
CORNELL THE WINNER
Her Grew Captures the Freshmen
Race at Poughkeepsie,
HARVARD COMES IN SECOND
Pennsylvania n Close Third and Columbia
Left Away in the Rear--Hnrvard Enters
Protest Against the Manner of starting
the Race.

PoUGHKEEPstE, n. Y, June 25.-Sldll |
and hard pulling won the day for Cornell's /
freshmen eight in the first of the two big |
four cornered university boat races which |
took place yesterday afternoon, to which |
boating enthusiasts have been looking |
forward for months. The shells finished |
in this order Cornell first, Harvard sec
ond by length, Pennsylvania third by
three-quarters of length Columbia |
fourth by full fifteen lengths, The official |
time was 1918 1922, 1Q26H and 10.5l
respectively.
There was misunderstanding at the |
start in the manner of giving the signals |
to be off, and on account Of it Harvard has |
entered formal protestagainst the award
Ing 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 en- |
ter protests, and this will not be done, 1t
was believed the signal would be given by
pistol shot. Instead, Referee George l..
Rives, after shouting through his mega
phone to the coxswains the warming Are
you readyY" gave the word go"
Despite the rain the ferries to Highlands,
the West Shore railroad station opposite
this CITY, were taxed to the extent of their
capacity from early afternoon till time for
the race to begin, and groups of expectant
ones patiently waited In the rain for some
thing to stir their enthusiasm. Under
every bit Of available shelter In the vicin-
ity people huddled from the wet About
4;40 there was an abatement in the rain,
and the southwest wind livened up al
most imperceptlbly. The crowds began
to gather along the river and at 5:l5,
when the rain had entirely ceased, the
1, holt 10
the course by solid mass of spectators
| Probably 10000 people witnessed the finish.
| There was leveling of field glasses at
the Columbia boat when she appeared.
Everybody was anxious 70 see If Chao,
| who was suffering from touch of inter
mittent fever, was one of the crew. Sure
enough, there he sat at No 4, grasping his
| oar as If his life depended upon his indi-
| vidual efforts. His physician had given
| him orders not to enter the boat but the
! plucl1y little Spaniard insisted upon han
ding an oar. Considerable criticism is
heard because Coach Sturgie allowed Chao
10 row. There can be no doubt that the
crew was vitally weakened by his presence
in the boat,
The start was made at 8 80 -. The delay
and trouble in lining Harvard up evidently
ratified Referee Rives, for he gave the crews
a very poor start. He first asked them if
they were ready, and all of the coxswains
raised their hands except 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." Bives had arranged TO fire pistol
as the starting signal and his verbal sign
created confusion to a certain extent. Cor
nell Columbia and Pennsylvania how
ths,x ntot.
onds later Rives fired his pistol, and Har-
ward got of The referees error had no
effect upon the ultimate result Of the race.
but 1t was enough to give Harvard IA
chance for a protest after Cornell had been
declared the winner.
Though Harvard got off late they fought
the water, which was Ghoppy owing to IA
combination of ebb tide and southeast
wind, with powerful stroke, and at once
took second place, tapping their boat for D
quarter of It's length on the Cornell she'll
The Pennsylvania was just triile slow
in getting their oars into the water, and
were almost as tardy as Harvard in the
start At the beginning all Of the crews
rowed a nearly uniform stroke of thirty
six to the minute
Cornell led at the half mile by length,
Harvard coming next, IL length ahead of
Pennsylvania, and Columbia two lengths
in the rear of the Quakers. Making for
the first mile of the course, which was
marked by the big bridge, Cornell gained
little on the field and passed under the
structure length and half ahead of tho
Crimsons, who were one and one-quarter
, lengths In advance of Pennsylvania, the
latter In turn leading the New Workers. by
four lengths. At this point there was a
for second place,
On the first half of the second mile Cor
nell widened the gap between her shell
and Harvard to two lengths, Pennsyl-
= vania again tapped the Cambridge boat by
IA quarter of a length, while Columbia had
fallen back to six lengths. At the mile
and half all of the crews were pulling
"a strokes IA minute except Columbia,
whose men were sticking their oars into
the water, as if they were so many stilettos,
at the rate of IS minute
Coming down the last half Harvard
made one Of George Mumford's S pet spurts,
which closed them on the Cornell crew by
a length. They We're unable, however, to
shake the Quakers, who made a spurt at
the same time, and the crews crossed the
line in the order given.
1t was game and pluckily fought race,
J Cornells victory being due solely to hard
work on home waters before they came
to Poughkeepsie.
AS soon as the Harvard crew crossed the
line Coach Mumford boarded the boat and
entered a formal protest, on the grounds
a, that the start was not In accordance with
rowing rules.
2 Mr., Mumford when seen after the race
, said he thoughtit was not fair start.
"When the referee shouted are you
{ readyy' he should have waited five seconds
before giving the word 10 start, said Mr.,
Mumford, 'but he did not wait over two
seconds at the outside, and when he asked
If they We're ready our c0Xswain shouted
no, as the men were backing water az the
time. No attention was paid to it ana the
word to start was given, Another thing
that was not right, was the fact that the
race was not started by pistol shot
"The referee admitted the start a poor