El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-24
THE FRESHMAN RACE.
The Greatest Freshman Race Evel
PuIIad-at kOuuhk aanSia Yesterday

The Greatest Freshman Race Ever
Pulled-at fOughkeepsie Yesterday.
The first of the great events of the
| season in college aquatics came off yes
| terday Ga the Hudson a. oughkeep-
| sic. 1t was the two mile eight cared
shell race between the freshman crews
| of Yale, Harvard and Cornell. The
regular university course is four miles,
but a race of that length would be too
much for men OF the physical immatur-
lily of freshmen, so for that class of rae
ing the course'is limited to two miles.
The race last evening was pulled be-
| tween and p ID, up stream with the
| tide, which however, does not begin to
cut the figure that it does on the same
at New London, as Poughkeepsie is
seventy-fve miles up the river from
New York. The arrangements for the
contest were perfect, the government
was in charge of the racing ground,
and with two revenue cutters close by
to watch things, the masters of al YES
sells took good care to keep without the
police lines. Ali traffic was stopped on
| the West Shore road, and an observa-
tion train of fifty cars loaded with 5000
people aud pulled by three engines fol-
lowed the boats up the course along
| with the crowd of excursion steamers
on the water.
SIT is anybody's game" was the
opinion before the race, though the
knowing ones favored Yale's freshmen
because of their unusually fine ply steal
development and spirited dash. They
pulled the English stroke rs Capt. Bob
Cook construed it, while the Harvard
youngsters used the English stroke rs
| taught by r. G. Lehman, the famous
OXford-Camb bridge coach and former
| membl of the Leander crew of Lon
don, and the Cornell freshmen pulled
| the English stroke as taught them by
Courtney, the veteran Oarsman of Ca
yuga lake. The basic principle was,
| however, the same, the difference be-
ing in adaptation to special circum-
| stances aud conditions.
The race was the finest of the kind
ever pulled off in this country, and
smashed all previous records to flo ers.
The crews got off well together, and
for the first mile no one could tell which
| would win. But after the first mile
| flag, the power in the Yale boat began
to tell, and gradually drew away from
the other two crews, while Harvard
steadily drew away from the kids from
Ithaca. Yale increased her lead, close
ly pushed by tbs Cam bridge freshmen,
aad as Yale pulled over the line first
there was but one boats length of CT, ar
water between her rudder and the
Harvard bow, and the bow of the Cor
nell boat was just tapping the rudder
of the Harvard shell. 1t was one of
the gamiest races ever rowed, and the
thousands of spectators almost stood
ag hast as the times were made known.
The winners scored the two N les in 8
minutes and 193 seconds; Harvard, 9:24;
Cornell, 9:29:l.
The fastest record hitherto made was
by the Columbia freshmen at New
London in 1891, viz, GAL. But the
Cornell freshmen who came in yester-
day beat that record by IL J seconds.
1t was pull ,pull, pull for every ounce of
power there was to be had in the three
boats, and the more or less frantic
cheers from the observation train, the
steamers and along shore stirred up
the youngsters to putting out all the
strength there WAS in them. Every
one of those tweoty-four boys would
have died rather than have showed the
white feather. Altogether it was q
most remarkable race, and the New