The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-24

half there was clear water between Cornell and Harvard. From there on to the finish Cornell whooped 1t up to 36 per minute, and closed up 10 the gap slightly, finishing just about an even length in Harvard'S rear
 None of the crews seemed distressed when they finished, but Yale was ce- cidedly the freshest of the three. When the men of Yale turned their boats nose toward their own house, there was a tornado of shrieking whistles, hornes and hoarse shouts. There was not very much demonstration in the city tonight because the rooters ana the members of the crews themselves were too anxiously awaiting the event of Friday. It is not believed that very much money changed hands, because freshmen races are so uncertain.
 MT. Courtney, of the Cornell crew. said tonight that his freshmen were beaten by the heaViness of the 4ale crew, which was too much for them Ill two mile race. He said they were fairly beaten by greater strength ana that there was nothing to be added to that expression. Fred WAite. who has assisted considerably with the train ing of the Cornell eights, said in dis- gusted tone that the youngsters show ed a noticeable lack of sense in running their stroke up and down and not keep ing at a steady hard pull from the be- ginning.
 MT. Lehman, of the Harvard crews, would not be seen tonight, but Captain | Goodrich of the Varsity crew, who had his men upon the observation train to witness the race and who led the cheer l ing early in the afternoon when it was announced that Harvard had won the baseball game from Yale, said:
 Harvard is very much pleased with the result of the race to-day. Neither MT. Lehman nor myself had any idea that our freshman crew could do any thing. They had practically trained themselves. Mr. Lehman devoted nearly all his attention to the Varsity crew. They gave the Yale men a pret- ty good fight, beat our old victors of last year, and altogether we are very proud of them"
 The Harvard boys were celebrating in their quarters tonight their victory over Cornell, and their baseball victory over Yale.
 
 crews did not take either of his crews out to-day at all and saw the race him. self. He said:
 "I think Yale won upon her merits
 entirely. They were heavier men and pulled in a much more steady style than
 either of the other two crews They
 were evidently not overtrained and
 they certainly did not look i'll as some
 of yesterdays papers tried to make
 them out
 When the freshmen crew in their
 shell, after their pretty victory, arriv-
 ed at their boat house, there was nc
 demonstration beyond the hearty con.
 gratulations of their fellows waiting on
 the float, and the winners at once made
 their way to their quarters. Later in
 the evening some members of the win
 ming crew took a train for New YorK
 while four or five others started on foot
 for Poughkeepsie, distance of some two miles and a half. One of then
 said that they had heard that things
 were very quiet in the city, and the1
 had thought it best to go down ant
 "liven things up" On the way an ole hack was pressed into service, ant
 there was every prospect that this idee
 would be carried out before morning.
 Coach Cook at quarters was playing cards with some members of the var sity crew when a representative Of th' Associated Press asked him to g1v' some expression on the result. MT Cook said, turning from the table: think simply this-it was the best row : ing that won. Harvard rowed very eff ; Actively, indeed, and put up gam
 race. I could not see the Cornell crev on account of being behind the ref erees boat and having my view ob
 structed."
 What do you think of the chance of your varsity men as viewed iron ) the standpoint of to-day's result?" MT. Cook smiled blandly and replied 7 q saw the Harvard varsity crew a ] practice yesterday, and they are don heater work than my varsity. If yo' can tell me how much their 'Varsit. has beaten the freshmen in two-nlil race I'll give you an estimate of ou chances"
 . Coxswain Walton of the winnin crew said this evening:
 "We expected to win the race, bu = we did not think it would be as eas Il as it was We had thought that bot 5 Cornell and Harvard would distance u
 on the first mile and we had depende u ,,non spurts in the second mile to vii U Our men were in good condition at tn e finish of the race, but the Harvar = boys seemed to be Jagged out. Thei q stroke tainted in the boat, 1 think, fo e I saw them throwing water on hi | head after they passed the stake 5 boat"