The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-28

broad, brown backs of the Quakers | seemed to respond, as in a few minutes
 they shot their boat up even with the | Cornell boat. But to catch the Wiscon-
 sin boat was not so easy. On perfect l ly even keel, with the boats going vel
 back together and the heads seeming as
 if they would swing off the shoulders
 the Wisconsin crew flew on. When the
 mile was reached the Wisconsin boat
 had lead of clear length over Penn
 sylvania, while Cornell and Pennsyl- , vania was see-sawing for second place.
 The Wisconsin crew had settled down tc
 a stroke of 32 to the minute, the boat
 never checking between the strokes, the
 blades cutting the water as keenly as a
 knife.
 Wisconsin Stock Goes Up.
 Wisconsin stock went up for little
 while They never can keep up shouted
 the rooters for the other colleges and
 the croakers but the slow and steady
 stroke had behind them a wonderful power and the Wisconsin boat never checked or stopped as it went toward the second mile mark. In the meantime Pennsylvania and Cornell rowed as pret- |
 been seen on the course. Wards men were rowing in magnificent form, while Cornell was not yet rowing with the usual Cornell reserve force,
 Cornell Works Spnsmo dically.
 The Cornell mems work was being done spasmodically. Columbia was row. | ing on behind couple of lengths When the Wisconsin crew had reached the mile and a quarter point they eased off a trifie in their stroke, rowing for two or three minutes at 31. At the same | time the Cornell men picked up their stroke and showed their boats nose slightly ahead of Pennsylvania and overlapping the stern of the Wisconsin shell. The Cornell yell came from thou sands of threats on the observation train But with apparent ease the Wis consi nstroke went back to it's regular 32 and the boat shot ahead again good half length. At the same time | Pennsylvania's boat which had been | tagging half length behind Cornells, shot up level with the Cornell boat, while the Columbias, making desper- | ate effort, placed the nose of their shell | near Pennsylvania's stern.
 Benutiful Race.
 At this point it was one of the most beautiful races imaginable, the four crews rowing with great regularity and all of them with clean, neat stroke. Again, as they neared the mile and a half point, Cornells boat came up even with the Pennsylvania crew, but was unable to catch Wisconsin, which had a lead over the two crews of three-quar- ters of length and was still going. From this point on to the tWo-mile point the Wisconsin boat seemed to fair ly fly. Pennsylvania was putting more strength in the oar, but the westerners boat drew away with ease. As they passed the two-mile mark there was a quarter of length of clear water be- tween the nose of the Pennsylvania shell and the stern of the Wisconsin she'll Cornell was even with Pennsylvania at the mark, and the two crews stayed on even terms until the two and quarter mile point was reached.
 See-Sawing.
 Then the see-sawing began Cornell and Pennsylvania alternately forging ahead of each other while the western crew kept their shell a boat length in the lead. Columbia struggled on three boat lengths behind rowing with all the power that there was in the boat. At the two and three quarter point Cor nell began to draw back a little in spite of the frantic injunetions of the cox swain, while Pennsylvania spurted ahead little and finally Tapped the Wisconsin shell, while she had fair length of advantage over the Cornell crew.
 Struggled Like DemOns
 Going the last quarter of the third mile where the river runs under the great bridge, Pennsylvania and Wiscon- sin struggled almost like demons the one to keep the advantage and the oth- CT to gain it. But Wisconsin was row. ing better than Pennsylvania. The Quakers made various spurts, while the Badgers rowed steadily at s. As they passed under the bridge Wisconsin had lengths lead on Pennsylvania and one and half on Cornell. Just after they passed the bridge Pennsylvania succeeded in tapping her boat over the Badgers stern, but the westerners im- mediately responded, increasing their stroke slightly.
 Cornell's Power Gone.
 Cornell had evidently lost ability to put any more power in the stroke, and l could not keep up the pace set by the | two crews ahead. Her boat was fully | two and half lengths behind Pennsyl- | vania, while Columbia was still strug- | ging on, three lengths to the rear of | Cornell. Passing the three-mile and quarter point, Pennsylvania hit the stroke up to 35 and there began one of | the most exciting contests ever seen in boat racing. Slowly the bow man of the boat lined up with the coxswain in the Wisconsin boat, but just as he had come on line with him the Wisconsin crew responded to the spurt and again drew away. COxswain's Fatal Action
 At this point Wisconsin was seen to swerve badly toward the western shore 1 and to the surprise of everybody main- tained this course, although it took the boat inside of number of small pleas ure boats, and fully 800 yards, if it the angle, out of the Wis., consin's proper course at the finish. The boat gained upon the Wisconsin boat and as they passed into the last quarter the noses of the shells | uera rn a line The PennSVlyania cOn- 1