El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-26
THE UNIVERSITY RACE.
The Boys From Ithaca Walk With the
Acuuatic Pc, simmons

Acuuatlc fef Sill hGllS
Contrary to the opiuion of the minor
ity, but according to the eXpecta ion
of the majority, the Cornell University
eight won the big boat race yesterday
afternoon over the~four mile course at
Poug bkeepsie, in 2O:34, with Yale 10I
secolds behind, or 2U:44, and Harvard
third in l6 second later, or q fiat.
The times were nothing more than
| fair for the Poughkeepsie course, but
| would have excellent for the Tha IN, S
course at New London. The boats
started off well together. with Harvard
| taking the water first. and the number
of strokes to the minute being thirty
seven. Harvard presently dropped her
| stroke to 80, Yale to 81 and Cornell to
%. The Ithaca boat began at once to
draw ahead, and was never overtaken.
At the half mile flag Correll was half
a ength in advance of the New Heaven
and Cam bridge men. va e made a squirt
on the second half mile and pulled
up on COrneli, leaving Harvard to the
rear. But the gain was only temper
airy. AT the mile and half flag, the
nose of the Yale boat was lappiog the
rudder of the Cornell boat and the
10 be bauiy pumped. On the second
mile, Corneli drew away from Yale.
and ere the third mile flag Was passed,
showed length OF clear water between
| herself and the sons of Eli. The Har-
ward boat was steadily dropping to the
| rear, as though the power was gone
out of it, but ia the last mile Harvard
| nraced up and slightly reduced Yale's
lead. In the last half of the fourth
mile, the boss from Lake Cayuga, let
themselves out, crossing the line win
ners in the time given. Yale crossed
three lengths behind, with Harvard
i've lengths behind her. Coruell's
LII la- hn
was considerably stronger last year,
and strong current Is d great factor
in acccleratiug time in d boat race.
| OF course the Cornell men we're jubi-
liant. To be sure they had been shuck-
ed out in the freshmen race in which
they came in third, but tie varsity
race was theirs, and they justly made
Lhe most of it. The Yale Contingent
Was also nightly pleas ID, because
they had gone INFO that race to pull
against harvard, and in OrGer to get
into the race it was necessary to go in
with Cornell also. AS beating Har-
ward was the objective point, ard a
race with Cornell an entirely secondary
matter, the Yale tears shed over the
Victory OF Cornell might be contained
in rather small onion, and the Yale
victory over Harvard does not appear
to have been dlmmed to any great ex-
tent by the winning of the race by
Cornell. There was just as mucn
Iof a hullaballoo frcm the wear
cont st had been confined to the blue
and the crimson. The sons of Eli had
beaten Harvard, and COrGel cut no
particular ice IN the racket. 1t was
II G. Lehman, the OxfOrd-Cam brid ge
coach ana member Of the famous
Leauder crew versus Capt. Bob Cook,
tie we'll known Yale coach, and Cook
1 rrif III,
IL conplished wOnders for Harvard,
ana brought order out OF the boating
chaos at Harvard; he did all that
could have been expected. But the
material does not se9m to have been
within reach to make a record beating
, crew out of, an1 John Harvard's sons
while doing their level best, did not
make the showing expected Of them.
According to the writer's in the New
York papers, Yale was not expected to
be in ii, and was put down at last,
while the Cambridge men were hignly
praised. 1t seems the style was all
right, but the mea did not have the
! power. The Yale University crew
lame came near 1ss;. gong a.st to pieces
to the oarsmea objecting to
Capt. Cooks peculiar style and ad-
dress. Simpson,, the stroke re-
: fused to sand it, and quit, and for time
IL was uncertain what won d become If
the crew. But the Yale men kept
) tueir family skeleton SHUT up il tie
closet, and with Lang ford as stroAe
did the best they coulu under III cir
, cumstauces. But it Is safe 10 say that
: the coach will have 10 notify his style
of address in training MS oarsmen here
after, or Sc there will be no crew or
another coach. At least that would be
, indicated by ''snap shots that come to
} the writer's ears. 1t was serious y
| proposed early in the season to st nd
| for an Oxford mau to coach the Yale
lcrew, and there was some cOrresp on
idence with that end in view. But tie
-, final step was not taken, and as the
politicians would say "harmony pre-
vailed"
| AN enormous crowd was present to
take in the race, and the Yell; g from
| the observation train was de- fleming.
An issue III stake IN The above trian-
gular race, has been wheth-r the i'm
portation of thu English stroke in its ea-
, tuety to American waters as illuetrat-
ed by Yale and Harvard experience,
, | is the thing: or whether there should
be an Americanize version of the Ed
glish stroke, This last was Courtpey's