The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1897-07-03
INVTNCIBLE CORNELL
9he Third Successive Victory For
Her Peerless Oarsmen. 80.
HEAT COLUMBIA BY IL LENGTHS.

Rcnnsylvnnia Foundcrcd Just After
Passing the Second Mile Mark-The
Result Discourageinent For Those
who Had Hoped For Record Breaking
4 Poughkeepsie, N. Y. July 8. - The
second varsity race upon the four mile
course. between eight cared crews from
Cornell, Columbia and pennsylvania,
was flzzle and procession. Cornell
won, with Columbia second, about 11A
lengths to the rear, while Pennsylva-
mia foundered just after passing the
Two mile mark. The official time: Cor
nell. 20 minutes, Al As seconds: Co.
lumb!a, 21.202 rs. The time by miles for
Cornell: First mile. 5.04 2-5: second
mile, 1861: third mile. 15.46; fourth
mile 20.47 As.
All of the expectations Of those low
~ Of American sports that by estab-
)ishing new records Pennsylvania and
D0lumbia would be entitled to demand
tdmission into what promises to be an
Intercollegiate rowing combination of
Three colleges--Yale. Harvard and Cor
pell-have been rrsely shattered. The
contest orr the Hudson yesterday
afternoon, which had been heralded as
promising close and exciting finish,
Ind which each college coach declared
would be a record breaking contest.
burned out to be the merest sort of
procession' and an apology for race,
Ills true that the water conditions
fo to 20 of
lhat men like DR.. Walter Peet and
bther boating experts alleged that 1t was
pot a proper timeeto start a race but 1t
y also true that. once having started .tha
Ehances were certainly equal for each
crew. The llghtest crew on the river
md the one less likely to be able to
stand the swells caused by the wind
blowing against the tide came out of
the contest an easy winner, and only
slightly, behind the record of Yale last
week, when she finished second in the
varsity race with all the conditions
In her favor. The heaviest crew in the
race yesterday. Pennsylvania, found
its boat washed full of water before
the second mile was reached, and after
passing that point was compelled to re-
crew, Columbia. bravely heralded as
rough water crew, was so fearful of
results from the same cause that it
lost many lengths steering inshore.
/, In some respects the contest was
pitiful. Cornell, the winner Of the two
previous contests. the victors over Yale
and Harvard had been led to believe
that Pennsylvania and Columbia would
put UP harder fight than her contes-
lants In the other races. On the con-
trsry, the Cornell crew rowed over the
course in the easiest kind of a fashion,
only hitting up the stroke in the last
three. quarters of mile in an evident
endeavor to make fair time. Columbia
struggled on in the rear, losing length
BY length, while rowing much
quicker stroke than Cornell, and final
ly. after crossing the line, her crew
Yound themselves almost incapable of
hny further work,
When the Cornell crew had crossed
the finish line they lay on their oars
Few minutes until Coach Courtney
eame along with the launch and offered
4 10 take the boys ashore. They laughed
~ him and started up the river. They
burned around at the bridge, a milo and
shs,l.rter up. and wr 4 over to their
b6Rthouse, another half mile, rowing
i. .2. stroke, and with the same rythm
as1iilch marked the race. II was.a d phe-
nomenal exhibition Of the lasting
powers of this most wonderful crew
that has ever rowed In American
EAters.
y There was really no race to describe,
at least not after the second mile.
During the first three-quarters Of
mile the contest was rather pretty,
Pennsylvania took the water first with
p quick, jerky stroke, Columbia fol-
nowIng, and Cornell hanging to the
fear. At the quarter of q mile Penn
bylyania had lead of half length
bver Columbia, and Columbia was half
, length ahead of Cornell At the half
mile Pennsylvania was rowing q "a and
Columbia SO, while Cornell, with her
b stroke, was decreasing the lead. At
The three-quarters of mile Pennsyl-
Eania had three-quarters of o length
StiIl over Cornell, who had pulled on
beyond Columbia for about half
length.
II was here that the trouble seemed
10 begin in the Pennsylvania boat. Just
prior to the starting of the race the
steamer Tremper. Of the Albany and
Eewburgh line, came down the river
rs the boats were lined up and al
though warned by the referee and the
police boats would not stop. The
bwells that she made were blown back
by the south wind. and the local ref
Sree, Harris 9. Reynolds, started the
crews while the swells were running,
though Coach Ward, of Pennsylvania,
protested against starting. When Cor
helfs boat, on the outside, hit them
they were long swells, and the sharp
boat cut them in two. converting them
into choppy sea, so that when they
bit Pennsylvania's shell they swashed
byer the side.
4 1t was here that Cornell's clever row.
ing was in evidence. for while the beau
Hful form Of that crew kept the oars
from touching these swells during the
feather the Pennsylvania oars hit them
with such force as to throw part of
lhem into the boat. By the time the
erews had reached the mile and
huarter the Pennsylvania boat was
numbering along, filled almost to the
kunwales, but the men continued
brayely pulling, although falling far
behind Columbia who in rowing in
shore to avoid the swells; had lost con-
Siderable distance to Cornell
From mile and half down the
nlmost ludicrous procession began. Cor
BELLS boat went along against the head
wind as If it had wings, while Colum-
bia's crew pulled along violently los
ing nearly a length In every quarter
Mile. Pennsylvania splashed and fuss
ID along. slowly going to the rear until
lhe two mile and quarter point was
reached. when Coach Ward came
1round In the Ben Franklin and took
The crew aboard.
From that time on the race practi-
tAlly lost the interest to the thousands
pf people along the shore. Cornells
bythmetical 20 swing carried the boat
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