The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-07-01
CORNELL AGAIN WINS.
Remarkable Race With Columbia
and Pennsylvania Freshmen.
NOT A RECORD BREAKING RACE,

ming Boat ut the Finish, ana Penn
syivania Was Only Half u Length
Behind the Second Grow.
Poughkeepsie N. Y. July 1.-Cornell
/ won by three-fourths of a length Co
/ iumbia second by one-third of a length
over Pennsylvania The official time.
Cornell 9 minis. 81 1-5 secs. Columbia,
922 S-5; Pennsylvania, 9.25 1-5
The freshmen race over the two mile
course here last evening between 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 inspiring.
magnificent. The freshmen of Cornell.
Columbia and Pennsylvania rowed
with their heads as well as with their
bodies. and showed science that was
surprising. 1t was anybodys race until
the instant the flag dropped, and the
fact that but two seconds divided the
first and last crews, and the boats
| Tapped over each other very nearly a
half, is evidence of the character of the
struggle. That such a struggle was
watched by only small sized crowd is
a misfortune for those who missed see
ing it.
The time is not record breaking, be-
oouse Yale made the same course in
9191a Wednesday, but both Columbia
finishing second, and Pennsylvania,
| finishing third, made better time than
did Harvard and Cornell, finishing in
the same places last Wednesday. The
feature Of the race was the wonderful
squirt made by the Columbia young
sters in the last half mile when they
closed UP a gap between themselves
and Cornell so fast that had there been
another eighth of q mile to row they
would have been in first place. A sec
ond feature was the remarkable row.
ing of the Pennsylvania crew, which
had been said by its trainer to be in
very bad shape. This crew is a very
much inferior crew to the Pennsylvania
varsity crew, and the critics are won
dering whether Ellis Ward has not
something up his sleeve" for tomor-
rows varsity race. The only criticism
on the race made last night was that
Or. 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
seconds from the time.
After Referee Peet, in his clumsy
boat which seemed to want the whole
crews waiting at their stake boats for
some five or six minutes, the young
sters showing the strain they were un-
der, the pistol start was given and the
crews were off Pennsylvania caught
the water first with a swift stroke
that showed the nose of her boat clear
ly ahead of the others. Cornell and Co
lumbia started a tride more easily, and
Cornell fell slightly to the rear of the
New Workers. All started at 36 stroke
but Cornell, true to the Courtney train
ing, dropped down to 33, while Column
bia kept it up at 35 and Pennsylvania
was hitting away at 33. At the eighth
of a mile Pennsylvania was leading the
Columbia boat by an eighth of a
length, and Cornell was a quarter of a
length behind the Columbia boat. At
the quarter Cornell had drawn up even
with Columbia, while Pennsylvania
had her quarter length lead
Slowly and surely the Cornell boat
gained Columbia, too,was coming
along, and the Pennsylvania lead of
quarter of a length was reduced in the
next quarter to a bare eighth. Then the
Quakers did fight for life, and down to
the end of the first mile there was a
terrific race for a place So this con
tinued for another half mile, down to
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to fairly lift itself out of the water.
pennsylvania responded with 80
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