Evening journal., 1897-06-26
CORNELL VICTORIOUS
She Beats Her Nearest Competi-
tor by Over Three Lengths.
AMERICAN METHODS ARE SUPERIOR.
In Spite OF English Innovations In Train
ing, the other Crews Are Left Be
hind-The Question of Weight
In Races Is Settled.

Poughkeepsie, June 26.-American
grit, American methods and American
training have won, as against Ameri-
can grit coupled with English methods
and English training. A crew of Amer
lean college youths, trained under an
American coach, won from two other
American college crews in an eight
cared contest. the two other crews,
Yale and Harvard, hsving studied, the
one under an American coach with
mixture of English and American
methods and the other dscarding all
American teachings and methods and
importing an English coach in an en-
deavor to prove a superiority for Hen
ley methods. No such contest ever oc-
CURED In this country before.
Yesterday the leading crews Of three
leading colleges Of this college strewed
country started down the four mile
stretch together. Yale finished second,
and Slk boat lengths separated her
from Cornell. Harvard, with her newly
acquired English methods. finished
third, and she was over 81 lengths be-
hind the Comedians. Her eight were
thoroughly exhausted, while the expo
nents Of American theory as applied to
the propulsion of eight Dared shells, fin-
tress being apparent.
The tide was slack the wind favored
no particular crew, absolutely no favor
Of any kind was shown by nature to-
ward the result. The race was rowed
entirely on it's merits.
The race also set a conclusion upon
the long mooted question concerning
weights. Yale stripped in their boat
today at an average Of III pounds, and
Cornell, 1853. Yale used every pound Of
its beef" on the leverage OF its oar, at
times with a nervousness which made
the boat fairly lift from the water
Cornell employed her trained down mus
Gle without beef" in leisurey, conf
dent manner that pulled her at every
stroke toward victory. It was a sim
gular coincidence that the English
trained crew, Harvard, pursued exact
ly the same method as TO the number
OF strokes per minute as did the win
ming crew, and although they weighed
in on an average 10 pounds heavier
than Cornells men, that extra weight
told for nothing. and either from too
much hneness in training or lack Of
ability to pull the stroke set for them,
they we're practically dead after the
second mile.
Used Her Usual Stroke.
It is also curious to note that Cor
nell pulled exactly the same kind OF a
stroke and the same number of strokes
TO the minute that she pulled last year
when she won in record breaking time,
and that Harvard, while advertising
that she had entirely new methods, was
defeated in exactly the same manner
that defeat met her last year.
Briefly the result Of the race is that
Cornell asserts her superiority in row.
Ing. method Of training and capability
over the two older universities. and she
still holds the record for intercollegiate
eights Of 19m. 29s., which she made last
year.
The race was one OF the most bril-
liant in the history of aquatics in this
country. The crews started with q
stroke OF 80 for Cornell and SO for Har-
ward and Yale. Harvard gained a slight
advantage over the others at the start
and the usual note of jubilation went
up from the Harvard adherents. It was
apparent within the first quarter mile
that the Cornell crew was using the
same method that took them on to vic
tory last year, that OF a slow and tell
ing stroke that would wear out theil
opponents. The boats travelled swiftly
although It was easily noticeable thai
the tide was at a slack and that the
conditions did not favor record break
ing. Yale, with a quick stroke, huni
IN the rear until after the first quarter
Of a mile, while Harvard and Cornell
fought it out. Cornell forged to the
front before the end of the first mile
was reached, and then began a struggl,
for the place between Yale and Har
ward. old enemies.
Harvard struggled valiantly but be-
fore the end of the mile and a half wa,
IN the rear Of Yale. Cornell neve
varying the stroke, went on with tina
easy. swinging movement little Colsoi
in the coxswain's box cautioning then
not to turn away with 1t. Harvard
acting under the instruction of thei
training MASTER used at many points
the same stroke as to numbers, bu
It seemed to have little effect, the boa
of Cornell running away from Harvard
At the two mile point Yale's crew wer
going away from Harvard. and the lat
ter seemed unable to prevent It, al
though they were rowing away at IN
long so stroke that had been predicte,
as a winning one
Yale's Desperate spurt.
After 1ale got away from HarVar
she turned her attention to Cornell
and Just beyond the second mile mad
n desperate squirt to catch the sir
youngsters. Never for a moment di
the young white shirted lads from Cor
nell get ratified. Backward and fol
ward went the sweeps with a rhyth
mical movement and a powerful swim
that was surprising to watch. II
weighty youngsters from Yale use
every pound of leverage on the end
the oar. but they could not bring the
boat alongside of the swiftly movin
boat Of the Cornell boys. The Harvar
men were rowing in very weak fashio
during this next mile, and II was ev
dent that they were thoroughly used u
At the bridge the coxswain OF n
Harvard crew had to give the HarvaI
stroke a little water in his face. an
for a moment, under the reviving il
huence, the boat swung along at gooC
ly pace. But only for a moment an
Just as they passed under the big birds
the stroke began to give way. Corne
was rowing at 80. and Yale was worl
ing away at SS and "a and evident
tired.