The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-28
HAPPENINGS IN The WORLD OF SPORT

its lane had found dead water in the
! lane which they had sought near the
| shore and, pull as they would and as
desperately as they did, the nose of
| the Pennsylvania. shell came out men
by inch until il crossed the line a scant
half length ahead of the Badgers boat.
1t was a finish that set wild with de-
light every lover of good sport. The
.. Cornell boat was fully three lengths to
the rear of the Wisconsin boat while
the Columbia's finished their stern
chase almost four lengths behind Cor
nell
The Associated Press time was taken
very accurately, was 20 minutes, 80
seconds, while the official time, given
from the referees boat was 20 min
utes and seconds. None of the crews
was in what could be called bad con-
dition when they finished. Right after
crossing the line, the giants from WIS
conSin paused a moment to take IN
their surroundings. and then ~ormed
their way out from among the maze
of row boats, and small yachts that
lined the course on its shore side. Not
a man in the eight showed the least
symptoms of collapse, and they I'M
mediately rowed across the river to
their boat house which is situated
about opposite the finish mark
AS soon as their boat was housed the
tain Sutherland and shook his hand,
and then they fairly Rugged eacn
other Their enthusiasm was un-
bounded although they We're very much
disappointed at not finishing first me
eight were unanimous, however, in re-
lieving their coxswain from all blame
for steering them out of their course.
How It Happened.
The little steersman himself, ]. d.
Dillon by name. felt very much de-
pressed about the matter, though ne
made a good defense for his action
lust as we were passing under the
big bridge" he said, Il noticed large
berry crate floating right ahead of us,
hard on our port bow. In few sec
onds we would have struck it. and IN
order to avoid disastrous collision, L
veered sharply toward the shore, going
so far out of our course that l realized
that If l were to attempt 10 get PACK
again the movement would probably
cost us the half length that we were
then in the lead of Pennsylvania, and
looking down among the small boats
inside the course, and seeing what L
thought chance to pass among them
and reach the finish line, L resolved to
keep the shell as she was then headed
and take the chance. OF course, the
maneuver cost US the race, but I am
sure that did the best that was to be
done under the circumstances"
After CoXswain Dillon had said this.
the rest of the crew crowded around
him and patted the little fellow on his
back. you did all right, old man, and
well stand by you they exclaimed in
a chorus.
I'VE feel that we have a right to be
elated over the showing that we made
today" said Captain Sutherland, Ito
use a race track phrase, we were rank
outsiders. as the betting showed. We
came down here from the west for the
purpose of winning this race. and we
went into the contest confident of VIC
tory. If we were destined to be beaten
we are glad it was by crew that had
already proved its right to be called
champions. At the same time I feel that
we would have finished first had not
our coxsWain been obliged to steer out
of his course. 1t was a fair square
race, and we are satisfied in every par
ticular."
Official Summary.
Pennsylvania time. 20:04: Wiscon-
sins, $20:O51s; Cornelrs, 20:13; Column