The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-06-24
YALE FRESHMEN WIN.
Harvard and Cornell Defeated in
Remarkably Fast Time. .-
FRESHMEN RECORDS LOWERED.
The New Haven Students Covered the
Two Mile Course in Nine Minutes,
ward q Close Second.

Two Mile Course in Nine Minutes,
Nineteen and q Half Seconds-Har-
ward u Close Second.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, June 24.-Three
crews of freshmen on the Hudson last
evening smashed to smithereens all
previous records for freshmen on a two
mile course, ana put up one of the hot
test Intercollegiate races ever wit
messed in this country. A crew of
sturdy Yale freshmen rowed the two
miles course in minutes 19h seconds;
a trif1e lighter crew of Harvard fresh
men fought them every inch of the
way, and finished a trif1e over two
lengths behind in 9.26R, and the Cor
nell freshmen, whose college record is
that none of its freshmen crews have
ever been beaten before, finished
length behind Harvard In 929k. The
best previous record for two miles was
9.4l, made by the Columbia freshmen
crew of '94 at New London, in 1891.
While the conditions here are better
Tor fast time than they are upon the
Thames, and while, therefore, some al
loWance should be made for the much
better exhibition, yesterdays race was
very remarkable one, all three of the
crews having lowered the record. the
last crew in the race-Cornell--doing
SO by liz seconds. All three of the
crews used every pound of power In
their boats at every stage of the two
miles, and each crew at some period of
the race was in the lead.
The victory of Yesterday Is looked
l. . 10 1.
some measure indicative of the result
of tomerrow's big varsity race. 1t is
not contended that the order of finish
will be the same, for Mr.. lehman,
of Harvard, has all along said that his
freshmen had been badly neglected,
and could not be looked upon as a rep
resentative freshmen crew. On the
contrary, the Yale crew Of youngsters
has been said to be more sure of win
ming than their varsity, while Mr..
Courtnoys Cornell crews have had
equal attention paid to them. The
chances therefore, as picked out today
are that the order of Fridays finish
Is likely to be Harvard, Yale, Cornell.
On account Of the rough water at the
bridge the race was postponed until
N'SN'h
utes past that hour the boats were
started, Harvard got the best clip on
the water, and in a few strokes drew to
the front, closely followed by the Cor
nell crew, with Yale almost a quarter
length to the rear, Harvard and Cor
neil started at So strokes to the min
ute, and Yale at a sweeping stroke OF
81. AT the eighth mile Yale, finding |
that she was trailing behind increased |
her stroke to &c. and began to draw UP. |
while Harvard and Cornell dropped
down to 81 each. At the quarter Yale
was still behind, but seemed to be
rowing easily while Harvard and Cor
nell were working hard, Cornell draw
ing up upon the Harvard lead.
Yale was easing up her stroke, and
within the next half mile brought it
down to 80 and 81, but even then she
seemed to gain, and there was a per-
ceptible dash to the boat that seemed
lacking in the others. There was little
or no hang, while the Harvard boat
seemed to go hard, and the Cornell
boys did not seem to be able to keen
up to the mark, acting as though they
had finely trained. At the three-quar-
ter mark Yale was coming up rapidly
on Harvard and Cornell, rowing So to
the minute, while the two latter, evil
IDENTIFY feeling the effect of the pace in
the first mile, had dropped to "a each.
Just crossing the mile line Yale had
pulled her boat up even with that of
Harvard and was showing its nose for
ward a few inches with each stroke.
Cornell was labOTing a length behind
Harvard, rowing rapid 36 stroke to
Iarvard's 80 and Yale's steady 80,
From that point on to the finish
Yale roWed steadily at SO and "a
Iuickening to 36 several lengths from
he finish in an cndeavor to make the
preach between her old enemy Jar-
Jard, and herself a trife wider. And
Harvard picked her strokes
lp to Sc after passing the mile and
leld 1t there until the finish. if lacked
,ower, and the boat dropped gradually
behind, crossing the line a trino over
-wo lengths behind the Yale hoat,
When Yale passed both the Haryerd