The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-24
With ROW CORnELL
YALE READY TO CONTEST TWO
RACES TO MEET THE
CHAMPIONS.
IA THREE-CORNERED EVENT
RHE PROBABLE RESULT OF THE
CHALLENGE SENT TO THE
ITHACANS.
harvard FAvoRs THE PROJECT.
crimson as Eager as the Blue to
Again Try Conclusions With
COurtney's Men.

+ NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. 23.-Ac-
cording to an indisDutable authority,
the Yale navy, which controls boating
affairs at New Haven, will shortly
Challenge Cornell to row q four mile
straightaway race next June. The
challenge will be accompanied by an
sexplanation that Yale will row Cor
hell alone or will gladly admit the Itha-
cans to a three-cornered race with Har-
Ward as the third crew. In other words.
Yale is willing to row two races, if
necessary to meet Cornell
The only stipulation Yale navy is liza
bic to make is that the race or races
do not take place at Saratoga lake.
Yale is not exactly in favor of Pough-
keepsie and is particularly DESTROYS Of
rowing at New London. On the propo-
sition of rowing at New London the
whole situation depends. Yale and
Harvard have already agreed to row
at that place by the terms of their
1ive-year agreement, but both are anX-
1ous to have Cornell with them.
Ever since Cornell won the magnifi-
cent victory over Yale and Harvard
last June at Poughkeepsie the Ithacans
have been regarded everywhere as the
Intercollegiate champions. Before the
race was rowed Yale's coach and row.
ing advisers distinctly stated that, win
or lose, the blue crew would never
row Cornell again.
The fact that Cornell is the acknowl-
edged aquatic champion, however, has
been realized at New Haven, and the
authorities there have come to the be-
lief that the only way to regain their
in CHI &c fO tho
Ithacans in a square and fair encounter
on the water. Cornell's sportsmanlike
action in not growing over Yale and
Harvard, which the Ithacans would
nave been perhaps justified in doing in
view of past circumstances, has made
many friends for Courtneys oarsmen,
especially at Yale.
When it is remembered that Yale all
along refused to meet Cornell. and, at
the same time, practically laid claim
to first honors in the college boating
world after each victory over Harvard,
the action of the Ithacans in simply
saving wood is a remarkable exhibition
Of self-control Never for a moment
has Cornell made any requests for a
renewal of relations that brought about
one of the greatest boat races ever
Towed in this country.
Yale's decision to challenge Cornell,
which was made only a few days ago,
Is therefore a move that the Ithacans
have been most anxious to have the
blue make. A prominent Yale boat
ing authority said today: I'm order
that our race with the crimson will
not be interfered with, Yale is willing
to row Cornell separately, or, In short,
Yale will row two big. races within
two weeks. 1t is simply a question of
rowing the champion Cornell crew, and
Yale will do anything to bring that
about"
NEW HAVEN. Conn, Nov. Pr.
J.. Cook and Capt. Whitney, of the
Yale boat crew, were asked today about
the report that Cornell would be chal-
lenged to race by Yale, and that a
Triangular contest of Yale, Harvard
and Cornell would follow. They stated
that as yet nothing was determined;
that the matter was held entirely in
abeyance, pending negotiations with the
New London board of trade,
with reference to the induce
ments for the Yale-Harvard race at