The times., 1898-06-22
THE COLLEGE BOAT RACES
Cornell, Yale and Harvard Will
Meet Today.
ITHACA CREW THE FAVORITE
The Prevailing Impression Is That
Coach Courtney Has Built Up An
other Winning Efght-The Race
VIII BE Started at z O'clock, If
Water Condition Permits.

New London, June 21.-The big three
cornered varsity boat race between Yale,
Harvard and Cornell according to the
present program will be started at 2
o'clock tomorrow and will be rowed down
stream. If the water is not just right,
postponement until $3.50 will be necessary
and If again thel' conditions do not fit
then the crews VIII be compelled to row
up stream at $50 O'Clock. To those who
are studying the merits of the three
eights with bias left out, it appears to be
quite probable that Coach Courtney's
Ithacans will cross the finish line first.
Nearly all college men here, including
those from New Haven and Cambridge,
feel in their boots that the New Workers
are bound TO win again. What little has
been seen OF the Cornell eight has con-
vinced the critics that Courtney has an
other crew built on the same lines of the
boat load which so easily showed its rud-
der to Yale and Harvard at Poughkeep-
sic last Summer
When the Cornell Varsity visited the
Blues quarters at Gales's Ferry this af-
ternoon, and the two crews fraternized
a great deal of comment, and especially
among Comedians. According to good
authority, the call was prearranged and
was suggested by diplomatic Payne
Whitney. captain of the Yale eight
Tonight students of all the colleges rep
resented here hope that Yale and Cornell
have at last buried the hatchet. to not be
10. u,
the New Workers tomorrow.
Harvard paid very friendly call on the
Ithacans at noon.
The course has been laid out a letter
S; but as the crews will not be steered so
as to be favored by the current. it is not
believed that anyone of them will have
much of an advantage over the other.
The Harvard and Cornell captains went
over to Yales quarters, where the draw
ing for positions took place. The Grim
son eight secured the outside" course,
or the one farthest away from the obser-
walton train. Yale drew the middle
course. Cornell. of course, got what was
left, the inside" course" or the one
nearest the grand stand train.
Coach Lehman, of Harvard. however,
was very outspoken. and expressed the
utmost satisfaction with the place Sc
cured by his crew.
At Yale's quarters there Is an undoubt-
ed undercurrent of feeling that Cornell
will win the race. While the crew men
and their friends do not openly discuss
Cornells chances, they do not hesitate
to express the belief that the Blue crew
can beat Harvard. This is taken to mean
that Yale secretly comedies the race to
the Ithacans.
1t is quite likely that the betting viii
begin tonight with even money. Cornell
against the field or to l Cornell against
either Harvard or Yale. Yale will also
be to l favorite over Harvard, with
Cornell left out of the calculations A
! bookmaker, who makes quotations on all
big college events. was at the Crockel
House all day ready to offer to l Cornell
against the field. But the college boys
who are backing the Red and White. are
not so generous, and stuck to the ever
money proposition.
The statistics of the three varsity crew.
are as follows: