The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-24
coRNELLIANS AGAIN CONQUER
YALE FINISHES SECOND AND HAIR
YARD A POOR THIRD.

Vale wins the Freshman Race With
Harvard in Second Place and Cor
nell Last-The varsity Race "a Pro-
cessiOn From the Start, But the
Freshman Race "a Battle Royal
From Beginning to End-YaIe
Four and Harvard Eleven Lengths
behind at the Finish in the 'Varsi-
ty Race.
New London, Conn., June 23.-The great
intercollegiate aquatic contests which for
months have been looked forward to by
thousands of college youths and their
friends. and for which this historic old
whaling town made such preparations,
took place to-day, 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 triangular race
with the youngsters of Harvard and Cor
nell.
BY to-day's victories and defeats the
prophets are not entirely without honor,
for in the varsity contest the seers named
the winner in advance.
In the freshmen race. however, those
who considered themselves peculiarly en-
dowed with prophetic gift found at the end
of the battle that their sure thing had
gone wrong, and that, contrary to almost
universal expectation, the Ithacan novi-
tiates were relegated to last place, while
the first-year men from old Yale outdid
their varsity colleagues and took as pref
" victory as ever was won.
The two races were strikingly inconsist-
ent with each other, in that each was
perfect antithesis of the other
The university race, which was rowed
down stream at 1870 o'clock, was a pro-
cession of the first class, while the fresh
men contest was battle royal from the
crack of the pistol to the booming of the
gun at the finish line.
The first race was undressing except
to comedians, after the first quarter of
mile had been rowed. Yale secured
slight lead at the start, but it was taken
away by Cornell at this point, and Court
ney's men were not again headed.
The eight of fair Harvard was never in
the race. and labored over the course to
finish a poor third, eleven long boat
lengths behind the champion New Workers.
and seven to the stern of her historic old
rivals of Yale
Prettier form and wartefship has never
been seen in America than that presented
by Capt. Colson and his Cornell crew
throughout the four miles of the race.
red and white tipped oars which swept
through the water at the muscular in
stance of the Cayuga experts. Their
spurts were timely, conservative and uni
formly successful, and always with an
evident reserve strength and force.
1t was the conviction of every fair
minded person who witnessed the race
that Cornell might easily have won by a
greater margin.
The work of Yale, the second crew, is
capable of characterization as first class,
when not subjected to the deadly parallel
with Cornell. The Yale eight,
splendid contingent, rowed in good
form throughout the race, but
spurts were unavailing against the ubiqui-
tous responses forthcoming from their
clever rivals of Upper New York.
Harvard was never a factor in the run
ming. The Cambridge men pulled a long
clean stroke, but it lack propelling power
and farther and farther behind Jagged the
crimson shell, until hope of victory van
ished and 1t became with the respondent
sympathizers merely a question of 'how
much"
Cornell naturally finished in superb
style, and after the race rowed majestically
up the river two miles to their quarters.
The Yale oarsmen showed some signs of
fatigue, but Capt. Whitney was the only
man of the crew who appeared to APP
proach the point of collapse. The plucky
captain had all but rowed himself out, but
recovered quickly.
Harvard finished surprisingly strong
She afforded the rather unusual spectacle
of crew looking into the jaws of over
whelming defeat and still pulling freshly
and vigorously across the last line of the
contest.
The twentyfour men were all in good
physical condition, with CornelIs eight a
trif1e the fittest and Yale the worst off in
this respect
The strokes rowed seemed to establish
beyond a reasonable contention that to
Courtney goes the palm. Bob Cooks ideas
certainly seem superior to those taught by
Mr.. Lehman, HarYard'S English coach,
and ii is tonight predicted that next year
will see adapta tons by both Yale and
Harvard of strokes more nearly approach
ing the American evolution of CornelPs
triumphant instructor.
The time of the winning crew as given
by the race officials, was % minutes and
as seconds, the slowest time made in
university race for several years, but this
Is attributable to head wind, and that
the winning crew was not forced.
Yale crossed the finish line IA seconds
behind the champions, while the Harvard
eight rested on their oars SO seconds later.
II the university race of the early after
noon was tame as contest the freshmen
race, which was started at $685. was thrill
ing to the last degree. Every yard of the
course was fought viciously, and the re-
suit was in doubt until the second Yale
rushed across the line the winner, in the
official time of 11:22 %. One hundred
yards from the end ii was Yale Cornell and
Harvard and every one looked for a fin
ish in that order Yale spurted and main
tanned her advantage but Cornell was no.
equal to the strain and at the last moment
Harvard in a desperate effort shot ahead
of the Cornell youngsters and crossed half
length behind Yale, with the nose of the
Ilhacan shell tapping the crimson boat
or the spectators much or little may be
said. The disagreeble weather which
ruined the pleasure of the thousands who
came 10 witness the varsity race yester-
day so dampened their enthusiasm that
the varsity race to-day was viewed by
hundreds less than were present yester-
day. a conservative estimate of the num-