New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-24
,ph often defeated. had

The college that, though often defeated. had
never quit was fighting 1t out In the same old
way With white faces, each bearing the GRIM
determined look and desperate resolve mat is re-
freshmen pulling the race OF their nves'
The half length advantage OF Cornell onsap-
peared and the boats were even moment more
and the colors Of the Blue shot to the FORE
While the followers OF Yale were cheering IKE
madmen and hugging themselves IN deiish''
thinking it all over. the Crimson nad peeh
doing great work also. No one had given the
Harvard men credit for being so good crew
as II turned out they were. SO that II came IN
the nature Of a surprise to find the Cambridge
boat in the contest at this stage or the race.
PM there was no disputing the fact The Grim
son was proving a dark horse and on the nome
etretch looked dangerous.
A quarter Of a mile away lay the finish line
Yales boat a little ahead and gaining
slowly COrnell's cOxswain shouted franticaliy
10 the men and called for a squirt. They re-
eponded and the stroke quickened to thirty SIN
But still Yale held her own. The thirty-four
stroke which tn Blue had maintained since
the passing Of the mile post. was not changed.
But the men pulled little stronger ana tnen
hardly won advantage remained. Ana theh,
whether IL was that Cornell vas rowed out or
whether the conviction they wer" oealem'
affected their stroke. for the hrst TIM" me New
Workers lost heart and percepdbly slowed down
As Cornell dropped back Harvard became the
contestirg boat The Crimson crew were SUI =,
prisiug their best friends with their torm speeu
ard endurance In a series OF magnificent spur.s
tbev ran nXav from ,he Ithacans and actually
closed on Yale The latter which had in mo-
mont Of mistaken overconfdence eas"d niue
on nassing Cornell. again settled back 10 work
and from that moment. and that moment only
the race won. 49,.
Vale crossed the line a winner by hair ooaI
length IN II minutes ~ 30 seconds har'alu >
time was II minutes. 23 ID seconds. and Cornell
finished I'm II minutes. 26l2 SECONDS apou, 1"
length and half behind Harvard The referee
announced that Cornell had rowed the nrst
halr-mile In 2:46. Harvard in Z:4i ana tale
30 but Acknowledged that from me positi9',
of the referees boat l. was Impossible accurately
~ catch the time at that point 'nn lnt'
he would not guarantee It.
All the crews stood the journey Vol ana none
Of the men collapsed II anything. falc WAS III
fresher but the fact OF winning prooaply ie'
vived them somewhat iii. -, ,ri,r,n,
vale mon say that much Of the credit ~ WinlluS
tho freshman race belongs 70 James - hul,', -
who coached tho crew Rogers was asSlS.e,,, ~ ~
rot cook only Occas iona ". and tha' hrrtE ~
ac,iv" work Mr. Cook devoted himself 70 nc
varsity and practically LEFT Rogers IN cI"a va W.
ho freshmen Rogers Will be rem"nn"r'd a. ~
cantair ~ tho Yale football team or ls,,. ana ~"
vale-ITarvard football contest last year IN ina
IN each case yale was not the fayoriie and won
uncVpectcdlY -. .,-ors,,,,
Cornol hackers who heavily on the VARSITY
So confident were tho Ghacans after IN" pig eV. ~
Mad been decided that they offered big odds on me
lac, race Cornell money AZ - 70 y on ornrll
against the field was taken In liberal blockS 10y w ~
many cases pooled their funds against the Ut
urphant Tthacans. The result was facer 10 me
latter ana 4 correspondingy joyful occasion ipr
tho hackers Of tho Blue But the pockets OF m"
College mon were about evened up
The following IS tho makeup 81 the freshman