New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-06-27
CORNELUS FINE VICTORY.
YALE-HARvARD ExCLUsIvENEss FELT
TO BE IMPOSSIBLE NOW.
ALREADY THERE ds TALK OF GREAT orH

ALREADY THERE ds TALK OF GREAT OPEN
COLLEGE REGATTA NEXT YEAR-NEXr
WEEKS RACES AT PoUGHKEEPsIE.
Poughkeepsie. N Y, June 26-Charles Courtney.
coach Of the successful Cornell crew, was asne"
this evening whether. because his crew hau u"
feated Yale and Harvard he believed 1t possioe
for Pennsylvania or Columbia TO outrow them mex,
week His answer was Il have seen the PENN
sylvania crews on the water They are ro"i"e
fast. I have not Columbia. but Columbia mas
won races and smashed records There Is every
possibility open to good crews
Yale concluded before yesterdays race to ADOPT
exclusiveness as her programme and row only
with Harvard hereafter. 1t is conceded on all
hands that Cornell must now be recognized, Out
Just how Is the question that vexes PROFESSOR
Wheeler the mentor Of Cornell in athletics says
that Yale and Harvard must apply to Corner 20
come into the contest and that Cornell should
not have to request admission. He believes mat
any attempt on the part Of Yale and Harvard 10
be exclusive will be condemned by the public
Cornell will not at Yale IIarvards Suggestion
enter into agreement TO CONNIE htr ro"l"s ~
competition with those two colleges. IL II an i''-
portant fact that next year she Will row hot ohiy
Columbia and Pennsylvania, but also the uhi-
versity Of Wisconsin and probably crew from
the Naval Academy at Annapolis. This Will make
q five-cornered contest that will undoubtedly De
the most Interesting aquatic event IN the country,
and the question is can Yale and Harvard amor"
to refuse to come into 1t.
The contests Of this week especially the varsity
race on Friday of the highest Importance II
Columbia or Pennsylvania wins YALE and Harvard
will have a harder nut crack in the line OF ex-
clusiveness than the that now confrontS theh'
Some of the Yale graduates who are here say that
the time Is ripe for beginning In this country
general aquatic contest In which all reputanie COT
leges shall be privileged to enter
Harvard graduates here to-day are indignant at
Lehmann's explana ton of why Harvard was de-
feated They say that If the crew was stale ~ was
certainly his fault, and not that OF the members
Of the crew They also say that the statement
that the crew did not the Lehman stfoHe an
through Is hardly excuse as the race Was Us
i'm the first mile, where they did according 10 MT
Lehman, his stroke. ,, -
d. NJ Goodrich. 81. was UNANIMOUSLY e'eSStt.u az
tain by the Harvard crew last night. MI Len
mann made a short speech, which was nearby
received. 49,. 1900
Courtney has eye 10 the posSlDillty ina some
of the men no rowed in the winning boat Jester
dax NAV be stale before the with Pennsyl-
crew a crew not as finely trained as the one yes
terday but in fact Just week behind II any OF
the men who rowcd yesterday snow any slghs oi
Staeness they will be Immediately supplanted by
substitutes from the 'shortcake" crew. ~
The races of next week are: Wednesday, June
20 Cornell Columbia and Pennsylvania freshman
race at $50 D. m Friday. July p Cornell Colum
Roth races will be rowed downstream, the fresh
man race for two miles and the varsity over tne
four-mile course. Representatives or the coHeSeS
will draw for positions Tuesday night