Daily Kennebec journal., 1897-07-02
The following table shows the positions

| The following table SHOWS the poSitioiH
| In the race:
! First Second Third
position position posnton
Nile Nile Pa. Pa- LenEth Iensth col. Col Even Cor.
| Z Mile Pa. 4 Length Col. Even Cor.
| 4, Mile cnrH Pa. 3 Strokes Cor.
| Mih Cor j. pax Cor.
| NJ Mile Cor ~ Pa "a Cor.
| IL Mile cor. i, coi.2 Strokes Pa.
Finish Cor. q Col. 1-3 ia.
| The freshman race over the two-mile
course here, this afternoon, between the
three American crews rowing with purely
| American methods, was one OF the most
remarkable In the annals of boat racing
| In this country, II was great, inspiring,
ms gnficent. II was unlike any freshman
| race ever rowed, because the crews
worked without that erraticainess that
usualis marks those events.
The freshmen of Cornell, Columbia and
Pennsylvania rowed with their heads as
well as with their bodies, and showed
science that was surprising. Ii was any
body's race. and the fact that but two
seconds divided the first and last crews.
and that the boats Tapped over each
other very nearly a h.4f. is evidence of
the character of the struggle.
That SUCH struggle was only watched
hy a small sized crowd is misfortune
| for those who missed seeing it. The time
Is not record breaking. because Yale
made the same course in minutes and
1 1872 SttDDnS. last w N3bAitSVsty. Jul Doti
Columbia. finishing secondt and Pennsyi-
va mia. finishing third made better time
than did Harvard and Cornell finishing
| In the same places. last Tuesday.
The feature OF the race was the won
de rful squirt made by the Columbia
youngsters in the last half mile, when
they closed up a gap between themselves
and Cornell SO fast that had there been
another eighth of mile to row they
, would probably have been in first place.
second feature was the remarkable
rowing of the Pennsylvania crew, which
had been said by its trainer to be in very
bad shape. This crew is a very much in
ferior crew to the Pennsylvania Varsity
crew. and the critics are wondering
whether Ellis Ward has not got sFme-
thing ''up his sleeve for Fridays race.
The race of today is looked upon as one
of the most creditable exhibitions ever
given. The only criticism made. tonight,
is that DIR. Walter Peet the referee, kept
the crews waiting SO long at their stake
boats with their oars dipped that the
nervous strain took off at least two Sec
onds from the time.
Taere was some discussion and some
quibhling lover the result. both on the
referees boat and on the press car. The
Associated Press time for Cornell, with
every facility for the greatest accuracy.
was 9 minutes, 20 3-5 seconds. The first
official time given out was minutes and
q seconds and the corrected time given
out, this evening was 8 minutes q l-5
seconds
Cornell averaged 80 strokes minute
during the race for normal work. Penn
sylvania "a. and Columbia 35 Columbia
claims they would have won the race but
'or the crab caught by the stroke and
feree Peet confirms this statement in
pa
Alter Referee Peet. in his clumsy boat
which seemed to want the whole river 10
turn in. had kept the crews waiting at
their stake boats for some five or six
minutes, the youngsters showing the
strain they We're under. the pistol start
was given and the crews were off Penn
syivania caught the water first with
SWIFT. strong stroke that showed the nose
of her boat clearly ahead of the others
more easily and Cornell fell slightly TO
the rear of the New Workers. All started
at ~ stroke. but Cornell, true to the
Courtney training. dropped down to 81,
while Columbia kept it up at 35 and Penn
syivania was hitting away at 33.
AT the .eigth of a mile. Pennsylvania
was leading the Columbia boat by an
eighth of length, while Cornell was
quarter of length behind the Columbia
boat. Cornell was rowing easily. while
the other two were fighting it out for
hrst place. But the Cornell stroke had its
effect. and at the quarter of mile, Cor
nell had drawn up even with Columbia.
while Pennsylvania stiH had her quarter
length lead.
Cornell drew up on Pennsylvania and
away from Columbia. Viciously Penn
sylvania hit the water and the boat
seemed to fly in the effort to hold the
lead but slowly and surely the Cornell
boat went on inch by inch showing out
beyond Pennsylvania. Columbia, too, was
coming along and the Pennsylvania lead
OF quarter of length was reduced in
the next quarter to Il bare eighth
Then the Quakers did fight for life. and
down to the end of the first mile there
was terrific race for place So this
continued for another half-mile down to
the mile-and-a-half point. First the nose
OF the Pennsylvania boat would begin to
draw away from the Columbia and then
Columbia would draw up on Pennsylya-
MIA Entering the last, it was clearly
seen by the condition of the men in the
three boats that there would be a strug-
gle that would be memorable
AT TINS point Cornell had a lead of n |
quarter of length over Pennsylvania,
ana Columbia was an eighth of a length |
behind Pennsylvania Columbia,s stroke
oar caught a crab at this iuneture and
lost about four strokes. but quickly fell |
in Whether this had any disastrous ef- |
Iect upon the boat or not was not appar- |
ent from the train. but Just following II |
Columbia hit UP the stroke from the firsf
90 they had been rowing uniformly during
the race to a faster SO.
. Cornell had made the lead three-ouar
.srs .s OF length and was still going when !
.nat spurt started, and when 1t was fairly |
under way had a length advantage. Then
the boat or Columbia seemed to lift Itself i
ou, OF the water. Pennsylvania responded |
with 80 stroke. but the long shell of the |
New Workers fairly lifted itself along and |
went by the Pennsylvania boat and after
me the cornell shell like thing bewitched. |
On IT went. the bow tapping the rudder
post OF the Cornell boat and creeping m
toward the stroke oar. ~
Frantically. did the little is-vear-old
cox. eoxswain call to the crew. and we'll did
they respond. but just as the nose of rho
noat lined even with the stroke oar Of
me Cornell crew. the two boats crossed
q! me line and Cornell was winner bv
,!,,s of length. Pennsylvania
ana ana hnlshed only half length behin5
Ioiumbia: Not man in either boat was
ton. ""'e eAhip'-