The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-03
NVINClBLE CORNELL
The Third Successive Victory For
Her Peerless 0arsmen.
BEAT COLUMBIA BY IL LENGTHS

hoaulI n DlhCOufuEeintub Nof Ahnrd
who Had Hoped For Record Breaking
Poughkeepsie. N. Y, July 8. - The
second varsity race upon the four mile
course. between eight Dared crews from
Cornell, Columbia and Pennsylvania,
was a fizzle and a procession. Cornell
won, with Columbia second, about liz
lengths to the rear, while Pennsylva-
mia foundered just after passing the
two mile mark. The official time: Cor
nell, 20 minutes, AZ AS seconds; Co
lumbia, 21.2O rs. The time by miles for
Cornell: First mile, 5.O4 2-5; second
mile, 1851: third mile, 1916; fourth
mile, 2O.47 AS.
All Of the expectations of those low
ers of American sports that by estab-
fishing new records Pennsylvania and
Columbia would be entitled to demand
admission into what promises to be an
intercollegiate rowing combination of
three colleges-Yale, Harvard and Cor
nell--have been rudely shattered. The
contest on the Hudson yesterday
afternoon, which had been heralded as
promising a close and exciting. finish,
and which each college coach declared
would be a record breaking contest,
turned out to be the merest sort of a
procession and an apology for a race.
It Is true that the water conditions
were not favorable to fast time, and
that men like DR.. Walter Peet and
othr boating experts alleged that 1t was
not a proper time to start race, but 1t
is also true, once having started, the
chances We're certainly equal for each
crew. The lightest crew on the river
and the one less likely to be able to
stand the swells caused by the wind
blowing against the tide came out of
the contest an easy winner, and only
slightly behind the record Of Yale last
week, when she finished second in the
varsity race with all the conditions
in her favor The heaviest crew in the
race yesterday, Pennsylvania, found
its boat washed full Of water before
the second mile was reached, and after
passing that point was compelled to re-
tire from the contest. The next heaviest
crew, Columbia, braYely heralded as a
rough water crew, was so fearful Of
results from the same cause that it
lost many lengths steering inshore.
In some respects the contest was
pitiful Cornell. the winner of the two
previous contests, the viotors over Yale
and Harvard, had been led to believe
that Pennsylvania and Columbia would
put up a harder fight than her contes-
| tants in the other races. On the con-
trarY, the Cornell crew rowed over the
course in the easiest kind of a fashion
only hitting up the stroke In the last
three-quarters of a mile In an evident
endeavor to make fair time, Columbia
struggled on in the rear, losing length
| by length while rowing much
quicker stroke than Cornell, and final
ly, after crossing the line, her crew
! found themselves almost incapable Of
any further work.
When the Cornell crew had crossed
the finish line they lay on their oars a
few minutes until Coach Courtney
came along with the launch and offered
to take the boys ashore. They laughed
at him and started up the river, They
turned around at the bridge, mile and
a quarter up, and went over to their
boathouse, another half mile, rowing
a 80 stroke. and with the same rythm
which marked the race, IT was a phe-
nomenaI exhibition OF the lasting
powers OF this most wonderful crew
that has ever roWed in American
waters.
There was really no race to describe,
at least not after the second mile.
During the first three-quarters of a
mile the contest was rather pretty,
Pennsylvania took the water first with
a quick, jerky stroke, Columbia fol-
lowing, and Cornell hanging to the
rear. At the quarter of a mile Penn
sylvania had a lead of half length
over Columbia, and Columbia was halt
length ahead Cornell. At the half
mile Pennsylvania was rowing 81 and
Columbia n 80, while Cornell, with her
80 stroke was decreasing the lead. At
the three-quarters OF a mile Pennsyl-
vanla had three-quarters of a length
still over Cornell, who had pulled on
beyond Columbia for about half a
length.
1t was here that the trouble seemed
to begin in the 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 al
though 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 ref
/ cree, Harris s. Reynolds, started the
crews while the aWells were running,
though Coach Ward, OF Pennsylvania,
protested against starting. When Cor,
nelps boat. on the outside, hit them
they were long swells, and the sharp
boat cut them in two, converting them
into a choppy sea, so that when they
hit Pennsylvania shell they swashed
over the side.
It was here that Cornell's clever row.
ing was in evidence, for while the beau
tiful form OF that crew kept the oars
from touching these swells during the
feather the Pennsylvania oars hit them
with such 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, filled almost to the
gunwales, but the men continued
bravely pulling although falling far
behind Columbia. who in rowing in
shore to avoid the swells had lost con-
siderable distance to Cornell
From a mile and a half down the
almost ludicrous procession began. Cor
nells boat went along against the head
wind as II IL had wings, while Colum-
bias crew pulled along violently, los
ing nearly a length in every quarter
mile. Pennsylvania splashed and fuss
ed along, slowly going to the rear until
the two mile and a quarter point was
reached when Coach Ward came
around In the Ben Franklin and took
the crew aboard.
From that time on the race praetl-
cally lost its interest to the thousands