The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-06-26
CORNELL STILL
HOLDS THE RECORD
The Greatest Boat Race Which Ever
Occurred In the United States.
AMERICAN METHODS BEST
naryards New English Training and Heavier
heights Not In It--Deisated 10 Same
Manner as Last Year
AMERICAN METHODS BEST

Poushkeepsle. N g.. Jpno 25.-Corncll
won. time go.si Yale was second by
three lengths and half time. .oaI iinr-
ward came in third, nyc lengths ustern Of
Yale. time. p
corncIr. time by miles was Flrri mile.
liis. second mile, io;o. thiri mile. is:5l =;
fourth milo, 9l:gi
The stroke. The start Cornell y. Yale
9, Harvard o.
Quar,cr mile. o., % sg respectively. halls
mile, q. 81. % three quarters %. 81. 80
mile. .-, .. -. one and half miles. 2
G q two miles. l2 g. a. two and ha:f
miles, y. y. Il: three miles. e. %. @. three
ana half miles. %. q. ag three and
three quarters miles. %. g. D.. nnsh. q.
q. and Harvard drifting across the line.
The race was oae OF American grit.
American methods and American training.
no against American grit coupled with
English methods and English trimming
\ crew OF American college youths.
trained under aa American coacn. who
from TWO other American college crews.
an cight-oared contest. the two other
crows having studied. one under AN Amer
lean coach with a2uixiur Of English
ana American methods and the other
disregarding all American teachings and
methods and importlng an English coach
IN an endcavor to prove tie superiority
for Henley methods
80 such contest ever occurred In this
country Cornell university hns not been
oble 20 meet Yale since lsss, and she lost
then. bat today shc defeated the y7earers
Of the blue
Af.or year OF 0ickvrng. Yale uni
vcrsity consented. under pressure from
Harvard. TO again meet Cornell The
match was arranged. and today the lead
Ing crews OF these three leading colleges
started down the four-mlle stretch to-
gcthcr Yale finished second. three and
a half boat-lengths separating her from
Cornell Harvard. with her newly uc-
qulr,d English methods, anlshod third.
and she was over eight and a half lengths
bohind Cornell Her eight We're thorough
ly exhausted. while the cxponents OF the
American theory as applied TO the pro-
pulslon OF eight-oared shells finished al
a hot pace without any distress being
apparent The tide was slack. the wind
favored no particular crew. and absolute
ly no favor OF any kind was shown by
nature toward the result The race was
rowed entirely on It's merits
The race also set conclusion upon the
lous.mootcd question concerning weights,
Yale stripped into their boat At an ay-
craze of III pounds; Cornell, lIN Yale
used every pound OF It's beef and lev
eragc OF It's oars. and az times with a
nervousness which made the boat fairly
MT from the water. Cornell employed
her trained down muscle in a leisurely.
confident manner that pulled her at every
stroke toward victory. II was a slngu-
lar coincidence that the Englsh-trained
crew. Harvard. pursued exactly the same
methods as 10 number OF strokes per
minute as did the winning crew, and al
though they weighed ON an average ten
pounds heavier than Cornelrs men. that
extra weight told for nothing, and either
from too much "nneness" In training or
lack OF ability to pull the stroke set for
them, they were practically dead" after
the second mile II is also curious TO
note that Cornell pulled exactly the same
kind of stroke and the same number
OF strokes TO the minute as she pulled
last year when she won in record-breaS-
Ing time, and that Harvard, while adver-
tislng that she had entirely new methods.
was defeated in exactly the same manner
that defeat met her last year
Briefly, the result of today's race is
that Cornell asserts her superiority In
rowing, method Of training and cGpability
over the two larger universities, and she
stlll holds the record.