The record-union., 1897-06-26
CORNELL Wins
THE BOAT RACE.
Beats Yale Three Lengths and a Half,
With Harvard Third.
Was the Greatest Contest on the Water
Ever Held in This Country.
The Exponents ofthe eAmericanT Theory
of Boat Racing, Although Very
Light in Weight, Show the imi-
tators of English Methods a Few
Points i'm ScuIiing.

POUGHKEEPSIE IN. Y.), June 25.-
Cornell won; time 2O:34. Yale was
second by three lengths and a half
Time 20:44. Harvard came in third,
five lengths astern of Yale. Time p 100.
| Cornell's time by miles: First mile
4:45; second mile, 1870; third mile.
1874 80; fourth mile, 2034 The
stroke: Start, Cornell 32, Yale SO, Har-
ward SO; quarter mile, 3D. 33 and 3D.
respectively; half mile, 81, 80 and 81
three quarters, SO, 80 and SO; mile, 3D.
81 and 34; one and one-half miles, 81
80 and 81; two miles, 81, 81 and 81;
two and One-half miles, 81, 81 and 81;
three miles, 81, 33 and 81; three and
one-half miles, 81, 81 and 81; three
and one-quarter miles, 81, "a and 80;
finish, 81, 81 and Harvard drifting
across the line.
American grit, American methods
and American training, 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 other American college crews an
eight-oared contest, the two other
crews having studied, the one under
an American coach, with a mixture of
English and American methods, and
the other, disregarding 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
been able to meet Yale since 1887. and
she lost then, but to-day she defeated
the Wearers of the blue After a year
OF pickering, Yale University consented
under pressure from Harvard to again
meet Cornell. The match was arrang-
ed, and to-day the leading crews of
these three colleges started down the
four mile stretch together Yale fin
lshed second, three and a half boat
lengths separating her from Cornell.
Harvard, with her newly acquired
English metheis, finished third. and
she was over eight and one-half lengths
behind Cornell. Her eight was thor
oughly exhausted, While the exponents
OF American theory, as applied to pro-
pulsion of eight-oared shells finished
at not pace, without any distress be-
ing apparent. The tide was slack. the
wind favored no particular crew and
absolutely no favor of any kind was
shown by nature toward the result.
The race was rowed entirely ON its
merits.
The race also set a conclusion upon
the long-mooted question concerning
weights. Yale stripped into their boat
at the average of III pounds. Cornell
1oS. Yale used every pound of its
beef and the leverage of it's oars
and at times with a nervousness which
made the boat fairly lift from the
water. Cornell employed her trained
down muscle in a leisurely confident
manner that pulled her at everv stroke
toward victory.
1t was singular coincidence that
the English-trained crew. Harvard
pursued exactly the same methods as
10 the number of strokes per minute as
ulo the winning crew, and although
they Welghed on an average ten pounds
heavier than Cornell's men, that extra
"elght told Tor nothing, and either
TOO much 'fneness' in training. or lack
Oh aplllty to pull the stroke set for
them, they We're practically dead"
after the second mile
1t is also curious to note that CORNELL
pulled exactly the same kind of o
stroke and the same number of strokes
to the minute as she pulled last vaor
When she won in record -breslxino
time, and that Harvard while advor.
tsing that she had entirely now ,,,,+1,
DDS, was defeated in exactly tba sor,a
manner that defeat met her last voor
Briefly, the result of to-dav,s roc is
that Cornell asserts her sunariori+1~ =.
rowing method of training and capa-
blllty over the two larger ,niuers;
ties' ana she stlll holds the record for
lhtercoileglate eIghts Of 10 minutes %
SECONDS, winch she made last year.
Inc race was one of the most bril-
liant in the history of aquatics in this
country Harvard gained a SLIGHT ad-
vantage over the others at the star+
ana the usual note of jubilation went
up from the Harvard adherents, IF
was apparent for the first quarter mile
that the Cornell crew was usine the
same methods that took them on to
victory last year; that of a slow and
telling stroke that would wear ont
their opponents. The boats Travelled
swiftly, although it was easily notice.
able that the tide was at a slack. and
that the conditions did not favor rec
ord breaking. Yale, with a Quick
stroke, hung in the rear until after the
first quarter of a mile, while Harvard
and Cornell fought it out. Cornell
forged to the front before the end of
the first mile was reached. Harvard
struggled valiantly, but before the end
of the mile and a half was in the rear
of Yale. Cornell went on with that
easy swinging stroke, little Colson in
the coxswain's box cautioning them
not to run away with it. Harvard.
acting under the instructions of their
training master, used at many points
the same stroke as to numbers. but it
seemed to have little effect-the boat
of Cornell running away from Har-
ward
At the two-mile point the Yale crew
were going away from Harvard. and
the latter seemed unable to prevent
it, although they were rowing away at
the long 32-stroke that had been pre-
dicted a winning one. After Yale got
away from Harvard she turned her at
tention to Cornell, and just before the
second mile made desperate squirt
to catch the slim youngsters. Never