The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-05
Paper Boats vs.. Cedar Boats.

To THE EDITOR OF THE suS-Str: Cornell won In .
paper boat against two cedar boats.
Cornell won last year in q paper boat and estah-
hshed the record.
boats
Cornell began rowing in 1878, winning with two
paper boats In q field OF seventeen SIX Dared shells, all
tho others being cedar.
Yale has rowed q paper boat in all OF her victories
over Harvard.
Yale's record at New London was won and made in
q paper boat.
Harvard has rowed q paper boat in each OF her VIC
tories over Yale with one exception. easily explain
ablel.
Every intercollegiate race between Yale and Har-
ward for the past twenty years, with one exception,
has been won In paper boats.
Columbia has never won an eight-oAred race except
when rowing paper boats.
All of Columhia's victories In tours since '7o have
beon won in paper boats.
Every cightoarcd race of the national regattas has
been won In paper tOats.
Every four.osrei roce won at the national rcgattas
for tho past wv nty years has Teen won in paper
boats.
Every international rice won by American crews
in the past twenty years has been won by paper
boats. moulding III, Beaverwyck victory in 10 and
CnlumDta's victory at Henley.
TIL Winnipeg crtw. with a coda boat, were beaten
by "A paper boat in 's5 at the national regatta.
The Winnipeg crew then returned to the same re-
Ratta In 20. AMI with the same crew on tho same
water and against thu same competitions won in .
paper Loaf both the national ard International re-
gattas.
paper boats and viii be heard from.
Cornell has, during all OF these years, tested all
kinds and makes OF boats, and still rows paper. In
90 they imported the best make OF English boats. hut
found the rigging so poor that the paper boat was
much the faster. They have tested the aluminium boat.
but found that the freshman crew rowing the paper
boat could easily beat the varsity In the aluminium.
This year they rebuilt the English boat as well As
the aluminium boat. giving to each all the advantages
~ rDnFtnpy'a sunpFb rigging hpf vet tlcN were easily
beaten los the paper boat. Int this was not enough.
and so a new cedar boat was built by ore OF the best
only TO prove thu paper boat still the fastest. and so
Cornell brought four paper boats to PUughkeepsie.
leaving all the others at home.
The University OF Pennsylvania, too. got tho fever
tories Eeretofnrr have been in paper, and this year
with their cedar boat lost 10 Annapolis in paper
boats. Since they have been on the Hudson they,
TOO, have been testing. with the result that the new
cedar boat has boon discarded for old paper boats, in
which they will row their races.
IL ~ reported that Yale. notwithstanding all her
year Of the English 'rigRed paper boat. and az a result
OF the experiment she LA found the boat, 80 rigsed.
to be three lengths 4 over - the mile than the cedar
boat. which, II 80, has proven a costly experiment,
and It's too bad Yale so handicapped her old friend.
one Of the most expert Of Harvari's old oarsmen,
Col W. 4. Bancroft, thus writes after the race:
at Is interesting to note that the winning crew to-
day rowed in q paper boat. while the defeated crews
rOSed In cedar boats. Nothing was better settled to
the satisfaction Of Yale ana Harvard men twenty
years ago, and for a number Of years after that, than
May we not. therefore. sum the matter up by
asFing:
IL Yale and Harvard had the most power. pulled a
more rapid stroke, and were so much superior to Cor
nell as 10 he In a different class. - may not the paper
boat consistently claim some credit in the victoyt
TROY, n. Y, June 2S. 4. WATERS q Sous.