The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-06-26
VICTORIOUS CORNELL
American Grit, American
Methods and American
Training Win in the
Big Boat Race.
ITHACANS SPLENDID WORK
YALE FINISHED SECOND AND HAIR
YARD VAS THIRD.


Thousands witnessed the Great Struggle
on the Hudson-The Cornell Crew Won
Strictly on Its Merits s-Absolutely No
Favor of Any Kind Was Shown by Ma
ture Toward the Result-Against the
Light Weight Cornellians Yale and Har-
ward We're HelpIess-Yale Was Three
and a Half Boat Lengths Behind the
Winning Eight, While Harvard Drifted
Over the Finish Line Five Lengths Be-
hind YaIe-Cornelrs Time for the Four
Miles Was 2O:34-The Defeated Crews
Accept the Result With as Good Grace as
Possible-The Contest Proved the Row
ing Prophets to Have Been All ut Sea as
to the Relative Merits of the Crews.
Poughkeepse, N. Y, June 25.-Cornell
won; time, 20 minutes "a seconds, Yale
y was second by three lengths and
half; time, 2O:44 Harvard came in
third, five lengths astern of Yale; time,
q minutes.
Cornells time by miles: First mile AS,
second 10:39, third 5:34 3d. fourth 20:34
The stroke; Start, Cornell, 80: Yale, SO;
Harvard, SO.
Quarter mile: 80. 33, 80, respectively.
Half mile: 80, 33, 81.
Three-quarters mile: 81, 33, 81.
One mile: 80, 80, a.
Mile and a half miles: 80, 35, 80.
Two miles: 80, 80, a.
Two and a half miles: 81, 81, 81.
Three miles: 80, 33. 80.
Three and a hilf miles: "a, "a, 81.
Three and three-quarters miles: 34 34 80.
Finish: 34 "a, and Harvard drifting across
line.
American grit, American methods and
American training won to-day as
against American grit, coupled with
English methods and English training.
A crew of American college youths,
trained under an American coach, won
from two othersAmerican college crews
in an eight-oared contest. the two other
crews having studied, the one under
an American coach, with mixture of
English and American methods, and
the other discarding all American
teachings and methods and importing
an English coach in an endeavor to
prove a superiority for Henley meth
DDS. No such contest ever occurred in
this country before. Cornell university
has not been able to meet Yale univer-
sity on the water since 1875, and then,
as to-day, she defeated the boys of the
blue.
After long chickering's Yale university
consented under pressure from Har-
ward, to again meet Cornell. The match
was arranged. To-day the leading
crews of three leading colleges of this
college-strewn country started down
the four-mile stretch together. Yale
finished second, and three and a half
boat lengths separated her from Cor
nell. Harvard, with her newly-acquir-
ed English methods, finished tlard and
she was over eight and half boat
lengths behind the Comedians. Her
eight were thoroughly exhausted while
the exponents of American theory as
applied to the propulsion of eight-oared
shells finished at hot pace without
any distress being apparent. The tide
was slack, the wind favored no partic-
ular crew; absolutely no favor Of any
kind was shown by nature toward the
result. The race was rowed entirely on
it's merits.
The race also set a conclusion upon
weights. The Yale men stripped into
their boat at an average of Ill pounds;
Cornell at 15S Yale used every pound
OF its beef" on the leverage of her oar
at times with a nervousness which
made the boat fairly lift from the wa
ter. Cornell employed her trained down
muscle without beef in a leisurely, con-
fident manner, that pulled her at every
stroke towards victory. L was a sin
gular coincidence that tbe English
trained crew, Harvard, pursued exactly
the same method as to the number of
strokes per minute as did the winning
crew and although they weighed on an
average Of rem pounds heavier than
Corneli's men that extra weight told
for nothing and either from too much
"fneness'' in training or lack of ability
to pull the stroke set for them, they
were practically dead" after the sec
ond mile.
1t 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 they 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
the result of to-day's race is that Cor
nell asserts her superiority in rowing,
method of training, and capability over
the two larger universities, and she
still holds the record for intercollegiate
eights of 1919 seconds, 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 a
stroke of 80 for Cornell and &c 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.
1t was apparent within the first quar-
ter that the Cornell crew was using
the same method that took them on to
victory last year, that of a slow and
telling stroke that would wear out their
opponents.
The boats travelled swiftly, although
it was easily noticeable that the tide