The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-27
WON BY PENNSYLVANIA
Victors in the Four-Oared Race
at Poughkeepsie.
CORNELL A WINNER Toe
Her Freshmen First in the Eight Dared
Race With Columbia and the
Quakers-Was Most
Exciting Race.

cars was thinly peppled although eight
or ten cars were packed tight with col
lege partisans who had secured cars for
themselves. Coach Courtney of Cor
nell, who has. the reputation of never
seeing his crews row through a race
would have brohen that rule to-day
and followed the shells on his launch
if that vessel had not had an accident
which made 1t impossible to go out.
But he climbed out on the rocky ledge
that juts out at Crummel Bow, and
with his glasses to his eyes, watched
the start and the progress of the shells
down the river
Coach McConyille of Wisconsin
watched the races from the observa-
tion trains. Speaking of the freshmen,
he said that if the work of the young
sters was an criterion by which to
judge, the 'varsities need have no fear
of either Columbia and Pennsylvania
in to-morrow's contest.
The four-oared race, over the two
mile course, to-day was won by Penn
sylvania. Time, II minutes, ~ seconds.
Cornell was second. Time, IL minutes,
145s seconds.
The freshman eight-oared race be-
tween Pennsylvania. Columbia and
1Of11tl1, pNGI7 tIi6 lNb !llle COuESe, WAS
won by Cornell. Time minutes, h5
seconds: Columbia second, one one
quarter boat lengths behind Cornell.
Time. 10 minutes Pennsylvania was
three and three-quarters boat lengths
behind Columbia. Time, 1910.
At the crack OF the pistol the two
four-oare crews from Cornell and
Pennsylvania took water, but the Penn
sylvan3a stroke started at SO, while the
Cornell stroke was only ga
The PennSylvania stroke, while not as
prettily rowed as sCornell's, had much
more go in it, and before the boats had
gone 10 lengths the Quakers had showed
their boats nose ahead of the Ithacans.
Cornell had dropped down to the Court
neys stroke of 80 to the minute and al
though inch by inch the Quakers' boat
showed to tfe front, they never in
creased durinS the mile. The enthus-
iastic rooters on the train kept pre-
dieting the Comedians would let out
the stroke IS they neafed the finish and
simply eat the Quakers up, but from a
mere gain of inches IN the first half
mile the gain of the Pennsylvania boat
became one of feet as they neared the
mile mark Twice the Comedians tried
to reduce the lead, but each time the
Quakers responded and maintained The
lead of one length which they had when
they struck the bridge.
II Was lltlt lIlil a tfpIllSlJi StNiilSh
almost imminent. Both crews had
steered badly at the start angling in
toward the shore, and had Strengthened
out al the first quarter and giving
promise of running very straight
course Just as they got under the
shadow of the great bridge, and when
Pennsylvania had succeeded in obtain
ing a lead almost a shell length, the
ferryboat crossed the river and threw
a heavy swell, 1t was either because
the Pennsylvania oar, which did the
steering felt the effect of the swell ana
turned toward it contour, or else lost
his bearings, that the shell turned al
most directly toward Cornell. Quick as
a flash Pennsylvania Strengthened out
again and when they cleared the great
abutments it was seen that Pennsyl-
vania had a lead over Cornell of fully
length and a quarter, there being
clear water between the boats.
From this point of the battle to the
finish there was little material change,
unless it may have been at the mile
and three-quarters marks, where Cor
nell hit the stroke up to "a and started
to close the gap. But the Quakers,
who had been rowing from one and
half to two strokes per minute faster
than the Ithacans all through the race.
seeing that Cornell was squirting,
whipped their stroke up to 36 and
crossed lIt llIe AlIiISi Wy ollN
length and half in II minutes S% sec
onds according to the watches of sew
eral experts upon the press car. Mr..
Fortney, the official timekeeper on the
referees boat made it II minutes, 3
seconds, but the official time as given
out by the college timers was II min
utes IL seconds. Cornell finished ac-
cording to these same figures, in IL
minutes, ID 3-5 seconds.
The frash men race. which was started
very promptly after the four-oare fin
ish. was one of the closest and most
exciting races seen on the river in
years. the Columbia crew giving the
Cornell crew a sharp and pretty fight
for first place and making phenomenal
time. considering the sloWness of their
stroke. At the sound of the pistol, the
crews got away in bunch, but at the
settling down of the stroke to the
crews usual style, it was seen that Cor
nell had poked the pointed nose of her
shell few feet ahead of the line. For
the first half mile, the struggle was SO
exciting that the spectators arose on
the press car and in the observation
train and cheered for each crew. Cor
nell was rowing a long, sweeping
stroke of 34 while Pennsylvania was
rowing at the rate of 35. Columbia
was rowing a phenomenally long stroke
of 50, the wonder of all of the experts
on the train, for the boat Went along
almost as fast as the Cornell boat.
Close together the three boats hung,
but there was something about the
way the Cornell boat seemed to glide
over the water that made Columbia
and Pennsylvania hearts go down As
the crews reached the mile mark with
the Cornell boat about half length
out from the bunch, Columbia seemed
to gain and there were shouts of ap-
proval as the nose of the boat crept
up. But the old Cornell form was
there. Never did the stroke go above
the "a mark and the speed came from
increased power in the stroke. Colum-
bia was steady in its stroke also, only
hitting il up to So, but the boat began
to lose after the mile wa s passed, and
soon had a loss of a length Penn
sylyania was in the meantime steering
erratically a mile mark, going out
of the course badly. In this way she