The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-01
CORNELL AGAIN WINS.
Remarkable Race With Columbia
and Pennsylvania Freshmen.
NOT A RECORD BREAKING RACE,

NUl n ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS hAV0,
But Columbia's Boat Tapped the Win
ming Boat at the Finish, and Penn
sylvania Was Only Half q Length
Behind the Second Crew.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, July 1.-Cornell
won by three-fourths OF q length; Co.
lumbia second by one-third of length
over Pennsylvania. The official time:
Cornell, o Minis 81 1-5 secs; Columbia,
9.22 3-5 Pennsylvania, s.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 1t 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 anybody's 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 a small sized crowd Is
a misfortune for those who missed see
ing it.
The time Is not record breaking, be-
couse Yale. made the same course in
9.19h Wednesday, but both Columbia,
finishing second, and Pennsylvania,
finishing third. made better time than
vi rI f1niSh1nT
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 peen
another eighth Of mile to row they
would have been In first place. 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 @ 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
DR.. 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
of the river to turn in, had kept the
crews waiting at their stake boats for
some five or six minutes, the young
f,a CIT In n
der, the pistol start was given and the
crews were off. Pennsylvania caught
the water first with a swift stroke
that showed the Aose of her boat clear
ly ahead of the others. Cornell and Co.
lumbia started trifie more easily, and
Cornell fell slightly to the rear OF the
New Workers.. All started at a 36 stroke
but Cornell, true to the Courtney train
ing, dropped down to SO. while Colum-
bia kept It up at 35 and Renasyl4sa. 4s.Iaiaas- mia +
was hitting away at Sd. AT the eighth
of d mile Pennsylvania was leading the
Columbia boat by an eighth of
length, and Cornell was a quarter of
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 bare eighth. Then the
Quakers did fight for life and down to
the end of the first mile there was a
terrific race for q place. So this con-
tinued for another half mile, down to
the mile and a half point First the
nose of the Pennsylvania boat would
begin to draw away from the Columbia,
and then Columbia would draw up on
Pennsylvania.
Entering the last half it was clearly
seen by the condition of the men in
the three boats that there would be
memorable struggle. At this point Cor
nell had lead of quarter of a length
over Pennsylvania, and Columbia was
an eighth of length behind Pennsyl-
yania. Columbias stroke oar caught
a crab at this juncture and lost about
four strokes, but quickly fell in.
Whether this had any disastrous effect
upon the boat or not was not ap-
parent from the observation train, but
just following it Columbia hit up the
stroke from the first 35 they had been
rowing uniformly during the race to a
faster SO. Cornell had made the lead
three quarters of length, and were
still going when that sDurt started.
and when it was fairly under way had
length advantage.
Then the boat of Columbia seemed
to fairly lift itself out of the water.
Pennsylvania responded with a 81
stroke, but the long shell Of the New
Yorkers fairly lifted itself along and
went by the Pennsylvania boat and
after the Cornell shell like thing be-
witched. On it went, the bow tapping
the rudder post of the Cornell boat
and creeping up towards the stroke
oar Frantically did the little 16-year-
old coxswain call to the crew, and well
did they respond, but just as the nose
of the boat lined even with the stroke
oar of the Cornell crew the two boats
crossed the line. and Cornell was q
winner by three-Quarters of a length.
Pennsylvania whipped on the last five
or six strokes and finished only half
a length behind Columbia. Not a man
in any boat was distressed after this
remarkable exhibition.
Expelled Cadet Commits Suicide.