The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-06-24

THE TWO RACES WE'RE STRIk-
INGLY INCONSISTENT.
YALE WON IN THE SECOND BY A Squirt
The Crews Were All in Fine Physical COndi-
lion, and Harvard Worked With a Will
that Deserved ReW.rd.

for months have been looked forward
10 by thousands of college youChs and
their friends, and for which this historic
cid whaling town made such prepara-
tiCns took place to-day, and the re-
suits again place Cornell on ,hc pedestal
Of fame, as the champion University
crew of America, and to the freshmen
of Yale belongs the honor Of success inI
the triangular race with the Youngsters
of Harvard and Cornell. By to days.
victories and defeats the prophets are
not entirely without honor, Tor in thc|
Varsity contest the seers named tbeI
winner in advance. In the freshmen
race. however those who imagined them
selves peculiarly endowed with prophe-
tic gift found at the end Of the batrlcI
that the sure thing had. gone wrong. and
that, contrary to almost universal eX-
pectation, the Ithacan novitiates were
relegated TO this place, while the first
wear men from old Yale outdid their
varsity colleagues and took as pretty a
victory as ever was won.
The two races were strikngly ncOn-
stands out as perfect antithesis OF
the other. The University race, which
was rowed down stream at 1890 o'clock
this afternoon. was Il procession of the
6rst-class. while the freshmen contest
was battle royal from the crack of
the pistol to the booming of the gun at
the finish line. The first race was unin-
teresting, except to Comedians, after
- q hRAn
rowed. Yale secured slight lead at
the start, but it was taken away by
Cornell at this point, and Courtney
men were not again headed.
The eight Of Harvards were never IN
the race and labored over the course 10
finish a poor third, eleven long boat
lengths behind the champion Sew
Workers. and seven to the stern of her
historic old rivals of Yale. Prettier|
form and water ship has never Deen
seen in America than that presented by
Captain Colson and his Cornell crew
throughout the four miles of the race.
Scarcely n splash was to be seen from
the red and white tipped oars, which
swept through the waters at the muscd-
lar instance of the Cayuga experts.
Their spurts were timely, conservative
and uniformly 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 characterlza-
tiop as frst-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 M
i0uitous responses forthcoming from
their clever rivals of upper New YORK.
Harvard was never a factor in running.
The Cambridge men pulled long. clean
stroke. but it lacked propelling power
and farther and farther behind Jagged
the crimson shell, until hope of victory
vanished and it became with the des-
pondent sympathiZers merely a question
Of chow much" Cornell naturally fin
ished in a superb STYLE and after the
race rowed majestically up the river two
miles to their quarters The Yale oars
men showed some signs of fatigue, but
CAPTAIN Whitney was the only man of
the crew who appeared to approach the
point of collapse. The plucky captain
had all but rowed himself out, but recov-
cred quickly. Harvard finished surpris-
ingly strong. She afforded the rather
unusual spectacle of a crew looking into
the Jaws Of overwhelming defeat and
still pulling freshly and vigorously
across the last line of the contest
The twenty-four men were all in good
phvsical condition, with CornelPs eight
trihe the fttest and Yale the worst
off in this respect The strokes rowed
seemed to establish beyond reasonable
contention that to Courtney goes the
palm. Bob Cooks ideas certainly seem
superior to those taught by Mr.. Lehman,
Harvard's English coach. and it is to-
night predicted that next year will wit
ness adaptations by both Yale and Har-
yard or strokes more nearly approach
inc the purely American evolution of
Cornel's triumphant instructor The
fine of the winning crew MS given by the
race officials was % minutes and 4S sec
onds. the slowest time made in Il uni
versity race for several years but this
Is attributable to head wind and the
fact that Cornell was not forced Yale
crossed the finish line II seconds behind
+be champions, while the trailing Har
yard eight rested on their oars 33 sec
onds later
If the University race of the early af-
+o,noon was tame as contest the
freshman race which was started at SOB
wos thrilling to the last degree. Every
ward Of the course was fought viciously
,nd tbe result was in doubt until the
sncond Yale rushed across the line. the
winner in the official time of LOO %.
Ono hundred yards from the end it was
Vale Cornell and Harvard and every
ono looked for finish in that order.
Yale sP hnt Cornell mT wa a not @ona G 70 the
strain and ut the last moment Harvard
~ desperate effort shot ahead of the
Cornell Youngsters and crossed half n |
Iongth behind Yale, with the nose of the |
! Ttbocan shell tapping the crimson boat |
Of the spectators much or little may
- said. The disagreeable weather. |