The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-06-26

the second mue lnaae a desperate spurr
to catch the slim youngsters. n yer for
a moment did the white shirted lads
/ from Cornell get ratified. Backward and
| forward went the sweeps with arith-
metical movement and powerful swing
that was surprising to watch The
welghty youngsters from Yale used
every pound Of leverage on the end Of
the oar, but they could not bring their
boat alongside of the swiftly moving
| craft of the Cornell boys
The Harvard men We're rowing I'm a
very weak fashion during this next
mile, and 1t was evident that they were
thoroughly used up. At the bridge the
coXswain of the Harvard crew had to
give the Harvard stroke a little water
in his face, and for a moment under
the reviving influence, the boat swung
along at a goodly pace. But only for
a moment, and just as they passed the
big bridge the stroke began to give
way Cornell was rowing at 80, and
Yale was working away at 80 and "a,
and evidently tired.
The last mile Of the race was prob
ably one Of the most sensational in the
history of college aquatcs- sensational
not so much from the fact that it re-
corded the defeat of the crews of the
two leading colleges of the United
States, but that it demonstrated to the
satisfaction of the majority of those
who have watched the work of the
crews, and the different methods pur-
sued in their training, that the Leh-
mann and Cook strokes must bow to
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fication Of the two, and that, while
weight and Drawn are factors. they
must be combined with skill.
Before they reached the third mile
post Yale had begun to spurt and the
eight powerful represent lives of old
ELS muscle and stamina bent to their
work with wonderful exhibition Of
sheer will power, for their strength was
gone. For period of perhaps three
minutes the dying struggle Of the
giants lasted and they gained a little
on the flying leaders, and poor old Har-
ward, with nearly every man exhaust
ed, chung with the tenacity of bull
dogs in the wake of her old time rivals.
But it was a hopeless struggle, and
surely and steadily the flying repre-
sentatives of the red and white never
changing their steady stroke of 80 to
the minute, drew away as if they were
enjoying an afternoon spin instead of
participating in a contest that will go
down in history as the greatest race
ever witnessed in American water As
they approached the finish line it was
seen that the Harvard eight were
nearly to a man in difficulties, while
several of the Yale men were flying
signals of distress. Then the Cornell
crew, as if in mockery at the dis
comfiture of their rivals, increased
their stroke to "a and shot past the
judges boat every man as fresh, APP
parently, as when he started and, as
if not satisfied with their wonderful
exhibition, rowed for a quarter Of
mile down the river first giving three
rousing cheers to the man who had
coached them to victory, Charles E.
Courtney.
Ten seconds after Cornell Yale
crossed the line and Immediately stop
ped rowing, with No. CWhitney) and
No. 3 (CampbelD in a state of collapse
Then came Harvard, 16 seconds be-
hind, her entire crew used up and three
of the men utterly helpless Hardly
had the nose of her shell reached the
finish when Boardman, stroke, fell
back off his seat. Wrightington, at No.
3, and ]. f. Perkins, at No. g. also lost
their oars, and their companions COM
menced to splash water over them. In
the meantime Goodrich, captain, was
trying to raise Boardmen, but was too
weak and the coXswain was throwing
water over the two. After a long wait
for their launch, which could not get
through the crowd Of yachts, the men