The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-07-01

was fairly under way had a length ad-
vantage. Then the boat of Columbia
seemed to lift itself out Of the water.
| Pennsylvania responded with a 35-
stroke, but the long shell of the New
Workers fairly lifted itself along and
| went by the Pennsylvania boat and
| after the Cornell shell like a thing be-
Witched.
On it went the bow tapping the rud-
der post of the Cornell boat and creep
| ing up towards the stroke oar. Fran
| tically did the little sixteen year-old
coxswain call to the crew, and well did
they respond, but just as the nose of the
boat lined up even with the stroke oar
of the Cornell crew the two boats
crossed the line and Cornell was win
ner by three quarters of length. Penn
| sylvania whipped on the last five or
six strokes and finished only half a
! length behind Columbia. Not man in
either boat was distressed after this
remarkable exhibition.
There was some discussion and some
quibbllng over the result The Asso-
ciated Press time for the Cornell boat,
with every facility for greatest accura-
cy, was 9:20 3-5. The first official time
given out was 9:21. and the corrected
time given out this evening was
9:21 1-5
Cornell averaged thirty-two strokes a
minute during the race for normal
work. Pennsylvania "a and Columbia 35.
Columbia claims that they would have
won the race but for the crab caught
by the stroke and Referee Peet con-
firms this statement in part.
| There could have been no more rejoic-
ing in tho Columbia colony at W~s- Park
had their freshmen finished first than
there was when the youngsters reached
the boat house after the race. Coach
| Cowles shook hands with the crew all
around. and congratulated them on
their magnificent showing. The crew
unanimously agreed that they would
have wo,. hut for the fact that kelI@gs.
the stroke, caught crab about three
quarters of a mile from the finish.
which caused the crew to drop several
strokes behind Cornell
The Columbia freshmen did not go
out of training tonight, all of them
having agreed to keep In condition
until Saturday in order to pace the uni
versity crews in their practice rows.
When a representative of the Asso-
ciated Press reached Pennsylvania $
| boat house after the race was over,
| Coach Ward was busting and receiv-
ing the congratulations of friends. His
face beamed with pleasure he felt over
the fight put UP by his freshmen. The
man had honestly felt that the young
sters stood practically no chance at all.
The hard tussle they gave Columbia
for second place, and their time, 9:231a,
placing them boats length ahead of
the Harvard freshmen in last week $
race, 9:261a, worked together to make
Coach Ward feel that he had every
reason to be extremely proud of his
boys,
The Varsity men in the other parts
of the boat house Were preparing for a
practice spin. Coach Ward Is not a
man to lose any time and shook his
head proudly as he walked toward
where the launch was waiting to fol-
low the elders out.
Coach Courtney of the victorious Cor
nellians was on the river with his Var
sity men about as soon as the Quakers.
AS soon as the race was over he had
them started up the river for a two
mile practice They went Immediately
back to the boat house. having spent
about fifteen minutes in practice work
Mr.. Courtney was preparing for bed
| when he was seen at about 8 o'clock
1T was fine" said he, but the boys
ought to have made better time They
have told me since that the reason they
did not dare hit her little better dur
ing the second mile was that No. was
afraid of catching a crab