The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-06-25


Their Backcrs-Ynlean ana Cornell AIso
Looking For First Place.
Poughkeepsie H. Y, June 25.-Lnte
this afternoon the big varsity boat race
viii take place, and the town is crowd
ed to overnowing. The plan now IS
to call the race at $3.50 o'clock, aHl have
It rowed down stream over tba four
mile course. but if the weather is in
poor condition the race because of tho
change of the tide, win have to be
rowed after GAS p. m. up stream. ne
cessitating an entire change Of stake
and judges boats and the anchorage
Of the fleet of yachts.
It is called to mind that this is the
first time since 1876 that Yale has met
Cornell. and the first time in two years
that she has crossed blades with Har-
ward.
The most important feature of yester-
days work occurred at the Harvard
boathouse about o'clock last even
ing. All day long those desirous of
picking a winner in today's race, and
leaning towards Harvard. kept wish
ing that they could see the Harvard
freshmen row with the varsity, so as
10 get a knowledge of what speed the
latter could command. 1t was gener-
ally expected that this could not oc-
cur. because it was supposed that the
freshmen had gone out of practice. But
late in the afternoon the press repre-
sentatlves, from their launch, saw the
two crews given half mile spurts and
starts from a pistol shot.
Mr.. Lehman took care that the river
ff ho1 4 f,,
ers launches before he went to work.
and then he ordered out the freshmen
crew of Wednesday, which he had
kept in training for this very purpose.
When the freshmen were clear of the
dock the varsity crew was ordered
out, and the two started up the river
They went up for about two miles with
the tide, and then turned down and
were given a start by the trainer. The
freshmen were given way first, and
then the varsity crew started after
them. Rowing but 80 and 81 strokes
to the minute to the freshmen's "a and
S6, they came down against the tide
and wind in a rough, choppy sea at
such gait that in an eighth of a mile
they passed and got a length Of water
from the freshmen. The most i'm
ing their power in the boat, was done
from lined up starts, Mr.. Lehman using
the pistol.
The varsity started at a "a stroke,
and after pulling about five lengths
dropped down to an easy 80, sometimes
almost 81. The freshmen started at
3S and dropped to "a and 80. The var
sity boat, even in the rough water and
,er Ia gyr
even keel and fairly glided through the
water actually sliding past the fresh
mems boat as if the latter had been
anchored. Mr.. Lehman stopped them
and lined them up again, and this time.
after starting them, let them row for
three quarters of a mile. The varsity
at the end Of the stretch had dis
tanced the freshmen so badly that the
latter stopped rowing. The recovery
in the varsity boat was one of the
features, there being little or no stop
to the boat.
Harvard freshmen crew was very
fast crew, and if this is so, then it
is safe to assume that the varsity is
an exceedingly fast one.
Coach Cook took the blue varsity
polishing up. The crew was in perfect
trim, as it put up the river shortly
after o'clock, accompanied by the
launch Yale, with Cook, megaphone in
hand, in his usual perch on the bow
The rough corners on the individual
work of the members of the crew We're
knocked off yesterday morning in a
painstalling half hour of work. Last
night the surfaces were rubbed till
they shone and when the shells nose
finally turned back to the boat house
they reflected for those who looked
closely, a grim smile on the bronzed
countenance of Cook While the pres
ence here Of the crimson eight, with
their English coach compels Cook to
harbor a lurking fear that the finish
of today's big struggle will find the
sons of Eli a trihe behind the winner,
and that it will be Cornell in third
place, still he wears the look of con-
fidence and stolid satisfaction that
counts much toward putting faith in
an eight. The mems condition is all
that could be desired. The consistent 80
stroke that won the fight of the fresh
men Wednesday will mark the work
of the elders today.
1t was $50 last evening when the
water had become smooth enough i'm
the neighborhood of the Cornell boat
house for the crews to go out. Courtney
ordered the varsity and substitutes
into their respective shells and sent
them on an exercise row of a mile and
a half down the river. Returning Ia
the boathouse, the short cake" crew
gave the varsity eight a brush, but
was badly beaten. The most notice