The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-06-27

| last.
 ] The start, however, was very fair
 one, and none of the crews had any too much the best of it. Scarcely twenty | strokes had been roWed when a deep groan went up from the train as the | Columbias were seen to drop back in
 the ruck. Sluggishly and with neither 1 style, time nor power the New York
 CTS, pulling 38 stroke, seemed utterly
 unable to send the shell along.
 Before 200 yards had been traversed
 the "rah, rah, rah," of Harvard an nounced that the crimsons had forged
 their boats nose ahead of the Pennsyl- | vanias, who were level with the Cor
 nells while the Columbias were
 length to the bad. The crim-
 sons roWed nice level stroke and sent
 their shell long on an even keel and ap-
 parently had plenty of power behind the stroke
 Pennsyivanias were splashing a bit,
 and were by no means stylish, but made their boats movement good | Improvement in body swing and leg work and the long, smooth stroke of
 the COrnells attracted the attention of
 the experts on the train as Courtneys
 modified Henley stroke kept the Itha-
 cans on even terms without seeming eff l fort. At the quarter the Harvards led
 the Pennsylvanias by length, while | the Cornells were just about an eighth
 of a length behind the Quakers and a | length in front of the Columbias. | Coming to the half, Cornell drew up
 to the Quakers' canvas, and it was nip | and tuck for second place between l them, while both crews were gaining ! on the leader. Passing the first half
 mile, the Harvards' lead was cut down
 to three-quarters of a length, while the
 Cornells were rowing along just fast
 enough to keep a quarter of a length | in front of the Quakers and the Colum-
 bias were dropping further astern, as If 1 their shell was anchored. The three quarter mile saw the Harvards still in
 the lead without having improved on
 their position at the half, but the Cor
 nells doubled their lead on the Penn | sylvanias, while the Columbias were | toling along four lengths in the Quak- | CTS rear.
 | The Cornells and the Harvards were
 setting a 35 clip at the mile, but the | Cornells were putting more force be- 1 hind their stroke and had cut down the 1 Cambridge lead to half length. The ] Pennsylvanias, who were rowing B to 1 the minute, held the Cornells to half a i length, while the Quakers were still | four lengths ahead of the Columbias. | The next half mile saw the Cornells ] creeping gradually upon the Harvards and pressing them closely, only an
 eighth of length apart, A length di vided the Cornells from the Pennsyl-
 vanias and the CoIumbias were hang
 ing on four lengths behind the Penn | sylvanias.
 At this point the COrnells began to make their effort, and when the two
 mile mark was passed the Ithacans were only one-eighth of length behind | the Harvards and length in front of the Pennsylvanias. Even up between the Cornells and the Harvards was the order at the two-mile flag. The Cor
 nells were still a length ahead of the Pennsylvanias. The Harvards were 1 going at 36, while the Cornell stroke
 was steady 35 and the Pennsylvania 33. A quarter of mile further on saw Cornell wrest the vanguard position | from the HarVards despite the latter'S desperate resistance, and the Pennsyl- VaniaS were three lengths behind the crimson. Then the Cornells began to show the effects of Courtneys ideas l imbibed in England last year With l long, sweeping strokes the Ithacans | had their shell length ahead of liar | wards, who were in turn four lengths in front of the Pennsylvanians. The 1 ho1 nit in the excitement of watching the close l struggle of the leaders The New York CTS were splashing badly, eight or ten lengths to the bad, and could scarcely | keep their boat on an even keel At three and quarter miles the Cor nells had increased the gap between 1 them and the Harvards to length and
 half, but the Pennsylvanias had di- unfinished the Harvards' lead for sec | ond place by length.
 Half a. mile from the finish the order ] was: The Cornells first by two and half lengths, the Harvards second by three lengths, the Pennsylvanians about fifteen lengths in front Of the Co., lumbias. A tremendous amount of | noise greeted the Ithacans as they en- tered the last quarter mile of their journey three lengths in front of liar
 yard, on whom the PennsylvaniaEs
 were creeping up fast, two lengths di- Viding the pair. The Cornells hit tho stroke up to g for the final burst, and
 crossed the line winners by about four lengths. The PennsylvanianS also in-
 creased their speed in the last quarter and the Harvards only got home a length and a quarter in front of Penn sylvania. The three leading crews had almost got their shells in tow when the Columbias same struggling home, one
 minute and fifty-four seconds after the Cornells
 The official time was returned as fol-
 lows: Cornell 1929, Harvard 1892 and
 Pennsylvania 2O:11. This time. if cor
 rect, establishes a new American rec
 ord, as the previous times was 2010 by
 Yae at New London.
 There is a serious discrepancy some
 where in the official time as given from
 the referees boat. Between and 31a seconds are generally allotted to
 length and the Cornells defeated the
 HarNards by fully four lengths, or
 roughly speaking 14 seconds. whereas
 the difference in times shows a defeat
 by the Harvard by 2 seconds or say threequarters of a length None of the
 timers nor the referee could be found
 up to a late hour tonight, so that it
 was impossible to find out how the
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