Birmingham state herald., 1897-07-03
CORNELL HAS AN EASY TIME Wins the Third Race by Eleven I Open Lengths. PENNSYLVANIA NOT IN IT. Columbia Makes Spurt but Fails to Close Up
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 from Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania. 2 The expectations, breaking of records and a close and exciting contest.
 The result, fizzle and a procession.
 Cornell won; Columbia, second, about eleven lengths and a half to the rear; Pennsylvania foundered just after pass. ing the second mile mark. The official time: Cornell, 20 minutes, Al and 4-5 sec ,onds; Columbia, 21 minutes, and 4-5 sec onds. The time by miles for Cornell:I First mile, 504 2-5; second, 10:51; third mile. 15:46; fourth mile, 20:47 4-5.
 Positions of craws: start, Pennsylvania, first Columbia half length in front Of Cornell, third.
 At the quar;er: Pennsylvania half a length in the lead; Columbia half length in tlont of Cornell, third.
 r At the half: Pennsylvania one-quarter length in the lead Columbia second, one quarter length in front of Cornell, third.
 At the mile: Cornell half length in the lead Pennsylvania second, one length In front of Columbia, third.
 One and a half mile: Cornell in the lead by a. quarter length; Pennsylvania half a length in front of Columbia, third r Two miles: Cornell leads by two lengths; Columbia second by one length; Pennsylvania, third
 Two and half miles: Cornell in the lead by four lengths; Columbia, second; Pennsylvania, third.
 Three miles: Cornell in the lead by six lengths.
 Three and half miles: Cornell in the lead by eight lengths.
 Four miles: Cornell ahead by eleven lengths.
 The expectations of those lovers of American sports that by establishing new records, Pennsylvania and Colum- bia would be entitled to demand admis- EiO n yyhqr nrnmiePS tO he inter- collegiate rowing combina ton of three colleges-Yale, Harvard and Cornell have been rudely shattered. The contest on the Hudson this afternoon, which had been heralded as promising close and exciting finish, and which each college coach declared would be a record break ing contest, turned out to be the merest sort of procession and an apology for a race.
 It is true that the water conditions were not favorable for fast time, and that men like Dr. Walter Peel and other boating experts alleged that 1t was not a proper time to start race, but it is also true that once having started the chances were certainly equal for each crew. The lightest crew on he river and the one less likely to be able to stand the swefs caused by the wind blowing against the tide came out of the contest an easy win ner and only slightly behind the record of Yale last week. The heaviest crew In
 
 boat washed full of water before the sec ond mile was reached and, after passing that point, was compelled to retire from the contest. The next heaviest crew, Co., lumbia, bravely heralded as rough water crew. was so far full of results from the same cause that it lost many lengths steering In shore
 In some respects the contest was piti- full. Cornell, the winner of the two pre-. vious contests, the victors over Yale and IAI tz I1A1 trrv0 tl.s,t Pennsylvania and Columbia would pu up a harder fight than her contestants in the other races. On the contrary the Cornell crew rowed over ths course in the easiest kind of fashion, only hiring up the stroke in the last -hree- quarters of a mile in an endeavor to make fair time.. Columbia struggled on in the rear, losing length by length, while rowing a much quicker stroke than Cornell, and finally after crossing the line her crew found themselves almost incapable of any fur ther work. AS if to exhibit her prowesS and her wonderfully husbanded s.reng th th4 Cornell coxswain turned his boat around and rowed up a mile and quar- ter above the finish to salute the defeated Pennsylvania and then returned to the boat house.
 There was really no race to describe at least not after che second mile. Dur ing the first three-quarter mile the con- test was rather pretty. Pennsylvania LOOK the water nrSt With a QUICK. Jerky stroke, Columbia following and Cornell hanging to the rear. At the quarter of a mile Pennsylvania had lead of one half of a length over Columbia, and Co., lumbia one-half a length over Cornell Pennsylvania, however, was splashing badly, No. ', in particular, piling the water every time on his feather. At the half mile Pennsylvania was rowing 34 and Columbia a 33, while Councils 32 stroke was decreasing the lead. At the three-quar;ers of mile Pennsylvania. had three quarters of a length still over Cornell, who had pulled on beyond Co., lumbia for about half a length. It was here that the trouble seemed to begin on th+ Pennsylvania boat.
 Just prior to the starting of the race the steamer Tremper of the Albany and Newburgh line, came down the river as the boats were lined up and although warned by the referee and the police boats, would not stop. The swells that she made were blown back by the south wind and the local referee, Harris s. Rey- holds, started the crews while the swells were running, though Coach Warde of Pennsylvania, protested against start ing. When CornelPs boat on the outside hit them they were long swells and the sharp boat cut them in two, converting them into choppy sea so that when they hit Pennsylvania shell they washed over the side It was here that Cornelps clever rowing was in evidence, for while Lnei DedutlIul 10TH or IndI crew Kept the oars from touching these swells during the feather, the Pennsylvania oars hit them with so much force as to throw part of them into the boat. By the time the crews had reached the mile and a quarter the Pennsylvania boat was numbering along fillsd almost to the gunwales, but the men continued bravely pulling all though falling far behind Columbia, who in rowing in shore to avoid the swells hadalost considerable distance to Cornell From a mile and half down, the most ludicrous procession began. Corners boat went along against the headwinds, while Columbia's crew pulled along vio- lently, losing nearly a length in every quarter mile. Pennsylvania splashed and fuzzed along slowly, going to the rear until the two miles and quarter point was reached when Coach Warde came around in the Ben Franklin and took the crew aboard. From that time on the race practically lost it's interest to the people along the shore.
 Cornelfs rythmical thirty-two swing