The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-26

until after the first quarter of mile,
while Harvard and Cornell fought it
out. Cornell forged to the front before
| the end of the first mile was reached,
| and then began a struggle for place
| between Yale and Harvard. old enc
mics, Harvard struggled valiantly, but
| before the end of the mile and a half
was in the rear of Yale.
| Cornell never varying the stroke,
went on with that easy, swinging
stroke, little Colson in the coxswain box
| cautloninG the men not to run away
with It, Harvard, acting under the in
| structions of their training master,
used at many points the same stroke
as to numbers, but it seemed to have
| little effect, the boat of Cornell running
away from the Harvard boat. At the
| tWo-mile point the Yale crew were go
! ing away from Harvard and the latter
seemed unable to prevent it, although
rowing away at the long thirty-two-
| stroke that had been predicted as a
winning one.
| After Yale got away from Harvard
she turned her attention to Cornell, and
| just beyond the second mile made a
| desperate squirt to catch the slim
| youngsters. Never for a moment did
the young white-shirted lads from Cor
nell get ratified. Backward and for
| ward went the sweeps with an arith-
metical movement and powerful swing
that was surprising to watchers. The
Weighty youngsters from Yale used
every pound of leverage on the end of
the oar, but they could not bring their
boat alongside of the swiftly moving
boat of the Cornell boys
The Harvard men were rowing in
very weak fashion during the next mile
and it was evident that they were
thoroughly used up. At the bridge the
coxswain of the Harvard crew had to
give the Harvard stroke a little water
in his face, and for moment under
the reviving influence they swung along
rapidly. But this was only for mo-
ment, and as they passed under the big
bridge the stroke began to give way.
Cornell was rowing at thirty-two, and
Yale was working away at thirty-three
and thirty-four and evidently tired.
The last mile of the race was probably
one of the most sensational in the his
tory of college aCuatics. Sensational
not so much from the fact that it re-
corded the defat of the crews of the
two leading colleges, but because it
demonstrated to the satisfaction of the
majority Of those who have watched
the work of the crews and the different
methods pursued in their training, that
the Lehman or the Cook stroke must
bow to the superiority of the Courtney
modification of the two and that while
weight and Drawn are factors they
must be combined with skill and the
skill is that which Mr.. Courtney
teaches.
Before they reached the third mile
post Yale had begun to spurt and the
eight powerful representatives Of Old
/ Ellis muscle and stamina bent to their
work with wonderful exhibition of
sheer will power, for their strength
was gone. For perhaps, three minutes
the dying struggle of the giants lasted
and they gained a little on the flying
leaders, and Harvard with nearly ev-
cry man exhausted clung with the
tenacity of a bulldog in the wake of
her old time rivals.
But it was a hopeless struggle and
surely and steadily the flying represen-
tatives of the red and white never
changing their steady stroke of go to
the minute drew away as if they were
participating in a contest that will go
down in history as the greatest race
ever witnessed in American waters. AS
they approached the finish line it was
seen that the Harvard eight were near
ly to man in difficulties, while several
of the Yale men were flying signals of
distress.
Then the Cornell crew,a if in mockery
| pf thn 5icpn,lHi11t,a Of tbnir rivals
creased their stroke to 90 and shot past
the judges boat every man as fresh
apparently as when he started and, as
If not satisfied with their wonderful
exhibition, rowed for a quarter Of a
mile down the river first giving three
rousing cheers to the man who had
coached them to victory, Charles E.
Courtney.
Ten seconds after Cornell, Yale
crossed the line and Immediately stop
ped rowing with No. 2, Whitney, and
No. 3, Carnpbell in a state of col
lapse.
Then came Harvard, sixteen seconds
behind, her entire crew used up and
three of the men utterly helpless. Hard
ley had the nose of her shell reached
the finish when Boardman, stroke, fell
DdCk on MS seat. WrlSnIlnS ton at NO
8, and J. E. Perkins at No also lost
their oars and their companions COM
menced to splash water over them. II
the meantime Goodrich, captain, was
trying to raise Boardman, but was toe
weak and the coxswain was throwing
water over the two. After a long wait
for their launch, which could not get
through the crowd of various craft that
seemed to come from everywhere al
once the men were reached and careful
ly taken to their quarters.
After the race the Cornell crew were
taken aboard their launch, which
steamed proudly across to the boat
house where a crowd of 1000 men, wo-
men and boys had assent bled and were
waving flags, handkerchiefs and pieces
of bunting. The oarsmen had to fairly
fight their way through the mob into
the boathouse. Once inside they were
surrounded by undergraduates and the
enthusiasm knew no bounds. One OF
the first to reach the boa athouse was
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, who, al
though a Yale man himself, and a
heavy loser on the blue, left the obser-
vation train as soon as it stopped and
hired a row boat to take him across to
the Cornell headquarters where he per-
sonally congratulated Coach Courtney
and every member of the crew. 1T was