Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1897-07-03
CORNELL,S VICTORIES.
Ithaca Seniors and Freshmen Win
at Aquaties.
YALE AND HARVARD NOT IN IT

Tho Varsity Race Captured by Cor
nell without Apparent Efort-A Hot
Race With the Freshmen of Column
bia and Pennsylvania.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, June 26.-Cor-
nell Won the great four mile univer-
sity race yesterday afternoon in 20
minutes and 81 seconds. Yale was sec
ond by three lengths and a half, in
20.44, and Harvard came in five lengths
astern of Yale. in Fl minutes.
1t was a victory of American grit,
American methods and American train
ing as against American grit coupled
with English methods and English
training, A crew of American
college youths trained under an
American coach won from two
other American college crews in
an eight cared contest, the other two
crews having studied, the one under
an American coach with a mixture of
English and American methods, and
the other discarding all American
teachings and methods and importing
an English coach in an endeavor to
prove a superiority for Hanley meth
DDS. No such contest ever occurred in
this country before. Cornell university
has not been able to meet Yale uni
versity on the water since 1875 and
then, as yesterday, she defeated the
boys of the blue.
The last mile of the race was prob
ably one of the most sensational in the
history of college aquatics-sensation
not so much from the fact that it re-
corded the defeat of the crews of the
two leading colleges of the United
States, but that it demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the majority of those
who have watched the work of the
crews, and the different methods pur-
sued in their training, that the Leh-
mann and Cook strokes must bow to
the superiority of the Courtney modi-
fication of the tive, and that, while
weight and Drawn are factors, they
must be combined with skill.
The appearance of the Cornell crew
after winning the race indicated that
they could easily have made better
time had they been closely pressed, for
after winning they rowed a quarter of
a mile down the river. Two of Yale's
crew, however, were in a state of coll
lapse, while three Harvard men were
utterly helpless.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, July 1.-Cornell
won by three-fourths of a length; Co
lumbia second by one-third of a length
over Pennsylvania. The official time:
Cornell, minis. q 1-5 SECS; Columbia,
9.22 3-5; Pennsylvania, 9.25 is.
The freshmen race over the two mile
course here last evening between three
American crews, rowing with purely
American methods. was one of the
most remarkable in the annals of boat
racing in this country. 1t was inspiring.
magnificent The freshmen of Cornell.
Columbia and Pennsylvania rowed
with their heads as well as with their
bodies, and showed science that was
surprising. 1t was anybody's race until
the instant the flag dropped, and the
fact that but two seconds divided the
first and last crews, and the boats
Tapped over each other very nearly a
half, is evidence of the character of the
struggle.
The time is not record breaking, be-
couse Yale made the same course in
9191a Wednesday, but both Columbia,
finishing second, and Pennsylvania,
finishing third, made better time than
did Harvard and Cornell, finishing in
the same places last Wednesday. The
feature of the race was the wonderful
squirt made by the Columbia young
sters in the last half mile, when they
closed UP a gap between themselves
and Cornell so fast that had there been
another eighth of a mile to row they
would have been in first place. A sec
ond feature was the remarkable row.
ing of the Pennsylvania crew, which
had been said by its trainer to be in
very bad shape. This crew is a very
much inferior crew to the Pennsylvania
varsity crew, and the critics are won
dering whether Ellis Ward has not
something "up his sleeve" for tomor-
rows varsity race.