Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-24
CORNELL AGAIN A WINNER
O%ourtney's Men Show Far Better Form Than
Their Rivals.
NEVER HEADED FROM FIRST HALF MILE
Finish Three and n Half Lengths
Ahead of Yale with harvard n
Poor Tbird-ynIe Wins the
Freshmen Race.

months have been looked forward TO by
hundreds OF college youths and their friends,
took place today and the results again place
Cornell on the pedestal OF fame as the
champion university crew OF America, and
to the freshmen of Yale belongs the honor
Of success in the race with the youngsters
OF Harvard and Cornell.
BY today's victories and defeats the
prophets are not entirely without honor, for
= in the varsity contest the seers named the
winners In advance. In the freshmen race,
however, the sure thing went wrong, and
contrary to almost universal expectations
the Ithacan novitiates were relegated to last
place, while the first year men from old
Yale outdid their varsity colleagues and
took as pretty a victory as ever was won.
The two races were strikingly inconsist-
ent with each other in that the one stands
out as a perfect antithesis of the other. The
university race, which was rowed down
stream at II: 30 this afternoon, was a pro-
Z cession OF the first class, while the fresh
men contest was a battle royal.
4 The first race was embarrassing, except
TO Comedians, after the first quarter mile
had been rowed. The slight lead which
Yale secured at the start was taken by Cor
nell at this point and Courtney's men were
not again headed. Harvard was never in
the race. Prettier form and watership has
y not been seen in America than that pre-
scented by Captain Corson and the Cornell
crew throughout the race.
Yale Does Good work.
The work of Yale, the second crew, is
capable Of characterization as irst-class,
when not subjected to the deadly parallel
with Cornell. Harvard was never a factor
in the running. The Cambridge men pulled
a long, clean stroke, but it lacked %propell-
ing power, and farther and farther behind
Jagged the crimson shell, until victory
, vanished.
Cornell naturally finished in superb style
and after the race rowed majestically up
the river two miles to it's quarters.
The twenty-four men were all in good
physical condition., with Cornelrs eight a
trife the fttest, and Yale the worst off in
this respect.
The time of the winning crew was % As,
the slowest time made in a university race
for several years, but this is attributable
to a head wind and the fact that Cornell
was not forced. Yale crossed the finish line
fourteen seconds behind the champions,
while the trailing Harvards rested on their
oars thirty-three seconds later.
The freshmen race, which was started at
5:O3, was thrilling to the last degree. Every
yard of the course was fought viciously and
the result was in doubt until the second
Yale rushed across the fine winner in
II: 90 2-5.
One hundred yards from the end 1t was
Yale, Cornell and Harvard, and every one
looked for a finish in that order. Yale
spurted and maintained its advantage, and
Cornell was not equal to the strain, and at
the last moment Harvard shot ahead OF the
Cornell youngsters and crossed half a length
behind Yale, with the nose of the Ithacan
shell tapping the crimson boat.
Cornell First to Appear.
Cornell was the first of the three crews
to appear on the water today for the great
race. Shortly after II o'clock the Ithacans
left their quarters, two miles down the
- river, and proceeded leisurely in their steam
launch to Red Top, where they got into
their shell at the Harvard float. A few
minutes later the Harvard crew padded
slowly across the river to the start. 1t
was 1920 before Yale put in an appearance.
A the appointed time, IL: 80 p. m, the three
crews were at their respective stake boats.
Referee Meikleham shouted his final in
structions to the waiting crews and gave
the order Ready An instant Of sus-
pense, a puff of smoke, a report, and the
boats were off.
Effective starts were made by all of the
crews. If there was any advantage it be-
longed to Yale, the nose of its shell jumped
to the fore, with Cornell viciously hugging
il and Harvard's PROV a few short feet to
NHt io"iH nv "ao Nv iiot ~ hoNh
to the racing stroke OF thirty-four to the
minute. Cornell was soon down to the same
and the crimsoned tips were dipping in the
water thirty-four times a minute. The long,
- sweeping Cook stroke. sent Yale to the
front to the extent of a quarter of a length,
where 1t hung for perhaps a quarter of a
mile. The form of Harvard was fairly good,
but during the first quarter the crimson fell
to the rear slowly but surely and at the
half was behind nearly a length.
From the quarter Cornells strong stroke
began to assert itself, A little squirt brought
Cornelrs shell even with Yale's, and a little
later Yale was second in the race. At the
half, Cornell led Yale by half a length and
Harvard was one and a half lengths behind
the leaders. From this point to the mile
Yale and Cornell rowed ~prettily, but the
latter had the better of 1t, and when the
flags were passed, Courtney's men were rap
idly reaching a point where clear water
could be seen between Captain Colson and
the prov Of Yale's shell. Once more Cornell
spurted just to show that the pace had not
told on them.
Fine Exhibition of Rowing.
When the mile and n half was reached
Harvard was evidently destined to cross the
finish line a poor third. Cornell continued t
gain, and at the end OF the second mile
plenty of blue water was discernible between
the Cornell and Yale boats. From thin
point on Cornell gave an exhibition of row
ing never faralleled on the American
Thames. Its crew lowered its stroke an,
pulled thirty to the minute. AS Cornell ant
Yale approached the two and a half mill
flag the latter sent their stroke up thre
points, and began to close up the gap. Cor
nell did not undertake w respond to tn
squirt, and II was unnecessary. Cornell
rowing was as clean as a whistle. During
tho Nala Spurt the nluas Inst something n
their finish, and in the waist of the boa
there was a splashing.
The three-mile nag showed Cornell tn
leader by over two lengths, with Yale an
Cornell both sending their strokes up. TIL
last mile was rowed s~uperbly by Cornell
while Yale began to show signs OF distres
Still Ellis sons fought on pluckily and di
succeed In crawling up a trife. Cornell
however, had evidently been waiting for II
slretch. and during the last half mile rowe