The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-06-26
CORN ELL WAS FIRST.
New York College Wins the Great
Boat Race.
YALEA POOR SECOND AND HAIR.
VARDPO0R THIRD.

Greatest Race Ever Rowed on American
Water-Trainer .Courtney's Methods
Tell-victory For American Against
English Ideas-Tlme 20 Minutes and "a
Seconds.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, June 25.-Cornell
won; time 20 minutes "a seconds. Yale
was second by three lengths and half.
Time 20.44 Harvard came in third,
five lengths astern of Yale. Time 81
minutes.
| Cornell's time by miles; First mile,
minutes 45 seconds; second mile, 10.39;
third mile, 1874 3-5: fourth mile, 2o.34.
| The stroke: Start, Cornell, 32; Yale,
So; Harvard, 36.
One half mile, 80, 3s, 80. Three-quar-
ters mile, so, 50, So. One mile, 80, 80, 81.
One and one half miles, 80, 35, 80. Two
miles, SO, 80, 81. Two and one-half miles,
so, 80, 3d.. Three miles, 80, 33, 80.
Three and one-half miles, "a, 34,32. Three
and three-quarters miles, "a, 81, 80. Fin
1
! line.
/ American grit, American methods and
American training won today as against
American grit coupled with English
methods and English training. A crew
of American college youths, trained I'M
der an American coach, won from the
other American college crews in an eight
Dared contest, the other crews having
r%,r fnI Hho A xio.,,,
coach with mixture of English and
1 American methods, and the other discard
1 ing all American teachings and methods
1 and importing an English coach in an
endeavor to prove superiority for Henley
1 methods. No such contest ever occurred
/ in this country before. Cornell univer-
/ sity has not been able to meet Yale uni
| versity on water since 1875 and then, as
today, she defeated the boys of the blue.
After long pickering, Yale university
consented under pressure from Harvard,
| to again meet Cornell. The match was
arranged. Today the leading crews of
these leading colleges of this college
streWn country, started down the four
mile stretch together Yale finished sec
ond and three and a half boat lengths
separated her from Cornell. Harvard with
| her newly acquired English methods
finished third and she was over eight
and a half lengths behind the Cornell
lians. Her eight were thoroughly ex-
hausted, while exponants of American
| theory as applied to the propulsion of
Noight-oared shells, finished at a hot pace
without any distress being apparent. The
tide was slack, the wind favored no par
ticular crew, absolutely no favor of any
kind was shown by nature toward the re-
suit. The race was rowed entirely on
| it's merits.
The race also set conclusion upon
| the long mooted question concerning
weights. The Yale men stripped into
| their boat at an average of III pounds;
it's "beef" on the leverage of her oars,
at times with a nervousness which made
the boat fairly lift from the water
Cornell employed her trained down mus
Gle without beef in a leisurely, confident
manner, that pulled her at every stroke
cidence that the English trained crew.
Harvard, pursued exactly the same
methods as to the number of strokes per
minute as did the winning crew, and
although they weighed an average of
10 pounds heavier than Cornell's men,
that extra weight told for nothing and
either from too much .'f1neness' in train
for them, they were practically ''dead"
after the second mile. 1t was also curl
GUS to note that Cornell pulled exactly
| the same kind of a stroke and the same
number of strokes to the minutes that
| she pulled last year when she won in
record breaking time, and that Harvard,
while advertising that she had entirely
new methods, was defeated in exactly
| the same manner that defeat met her last
year. Briefly the result of today's race
| is that Cornell asserts her superiority in
rowing method of training and capabili-
| ty over the two larger universities and
| she still holds the record for the intercol-
| legiate eight of 10 minutes and go Sec
| onds which she made last year.
The race was one of the most brilliant
| in the history of aquatics in this coun-
| try. The crews started with a stroke Of
80 for Cornell and S6 for Harvard and
! Yales Harvard gained a slight advan
| tage over the others at the start and the
| usual note of jubjlation went up from
| the Harvard adherents. 1t was apparent
within the first quarter mile that the
| Cornell crew was using the same method
| that took them on to victory last year,
that of a slow and telling stroke that
would wear out their opponents. The
boats travelled swiftly, although it was
easily noticeable that the tide was at
| slack and that thu conditions did not
favor record breaking. Yale with a quick
stroke hung in the rear until after the
| first quarter of mile, while Harvard
and Cornell fought it out. Cornell
! forged to the front before the end of the
| first mile was reached and then began
| struggle for place between Yale and Har-
ward, old enemies