The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1899-06-28
THOUSANDS SAW
THE QUAKERS WIN
The Hottest Boat Race Wit
messed in Years.
WISCONSIN WAS SECOND
THE GALLANT WESSTERNERS
LOST BY A FLUkE.
AFTER 1HE RACE WAS REA " WON
Indsscribab'e Enihus assn al the Nose And
Nose Finish Cornell ad Column
bia Clearly 0utc'assed.
rennsvlvania's Pluck.
rennsylvania's Pluck.

Poughkeepsie. y. V. June 2I.-Twen-
ty thousand people today saw one OF the
most exciting four mile boat races ever
witnessed in the history Of college row
ing Five thousand people on the ohser-
walton train yelled themselves hoarse
in frantic appeals to their various col
lege crews To do their hest. and with
the other fifteen thousand they saw the
red and blue carried over the line n
winner by a short length from the Wis
consins. who lost in the last two hum
dred yards by bad steering. Cornell.
the victor of former years. pulled after.
full four lengths in the rear. and Column
Lia. never in the fight after the end
of the first mile. trailed in good three
lengths from the stern of the Cornell
boat.
THE STRANGER CREW.
1t was the kind of race that makes
the blood Jingle and was made SO by
the crew that came over a thousand
miles to meet former yictors. for without
the gallant Wisconsins in the race, it
would have been a doleful procession
after the second mile was entered. To
say that there was surprise on the
observation train and amid the great
crowds, upon the banks when the Wis
consin shell swept mile after mile of the
course until the last half was reached.
with a clear lead over all the crews. is
putting it mildly. When the people on
the bank, unable to place the stranger
crew. looked toward the observation
train inqlliringy. and We're told that it
was Wisconsin, they were almost dumb
with amazement, and when those on
the train saw the gallant struggle mile
and mile they dropped their appeals
for their own crews and yelled in Il
friendly manner for the boys from the
West. The alleged ragged stroke. the
badly keeled boat, the too long reach.
all were forgotten as the fast moving
craft kept pushing its sharp nose to the
fore and then the people saw the lead
ers turn out towards the shore at the
finish and lose the race to the men from
Pennsylvania by a short length. Well
did the Pennsylvania obey the injunc-
ton of Ellis Ward to not lose their
heads. From the first eighth of mile
they rowed a stern. hard chase. at one
time being astern of both Cornell and
Wisconsin, but their pluck and endur-
ance sent them over the line first in
good time and by such a small margin
that the glory is greater.
CORNELL.
For Cornell, the winner of many bat
ties. the contest proved TO be a race
only in two miles. For those first two
miles she did gallant work, but she
was struggling against evidently better
crews, and it was only by exertions of
a phenomenal nature that she managed
to keep the nose of the boat ahead of
the Pennsylvania for a brief time in the
second mile.
COLUMBIA.
OF Columbia, it may be said that she
was out-classed from the start and,
barring an accident. there was never a
time when she stood chance of winning
the race. She Went to the rear i'm the
first quarter of mile although she had
good start, and stayed there all
through the race.
THE START.
Two false starts were made and the
referee called the crews back.
1t was FIVE minutes after seven when
the third start was given, and this time
the crews got away without accident
This start was a beautiful one, the four
boats noses seeming to hang together
for the first two strokes. AS they set
tied in the stroke taught them by the
various coaches. Wisconsin seemed to
be rowing the least number of strokes
per minute of any of the crews, bu!
her boat was going faster than any OF
the others.
Before the first eighth Of a mile was
f1. a.
its nose ahead of the other crews. with
Cornell second. Pennsylvania hanging
well on to her. and Columbia fourth
dropping astern.
THE BADGERS SET THE PACE.
When the first half mile was reached
so fast was the Wisconsin boat goin
that it had taken its whole length ahea,
of the Pennsylvania boat, and was hal
length ahead of the Cornell boat, OIL
the extreme east. Columbia was rowin
with the nose of her boat just overlapping
Pennsylvania. FranticalIy the Pennsyl
vania rooters on the train yelled at thei
crew and the broad, brown backs of tn
Quakers seemed to respond, as in a fey
minutes they shot their boat up evel
with the Cornell boat, but to catch Wis
consin was not so easy. When the mil
was reached the Wisconsin boat had
lead Of a clear length over Pennsylvania
while Cornell and Pennsylvania wer
see-sawing for second place. The Wis
consin crew had settled down to a strok
of 81 to minutes, the boat never check
ing between strokes, and the blades cut
ting the water as keenly rs knife.
Look at those Westerners co." shoh
ed those on the observation train, an
Wisconsin stock went up for a lttl
while.
CORNELL'S Squirt.
When the Wisconsin crew had reache
the mile and quarter point, they ease
off little in their stroke rowing for tw
or three minutes at 81. At the sam
time Cornell picked up their stroke an
showed their boats nose slightly ahea
of Pennsylvania and overlapping tn
stern Of the Wisconsin shell. "Cornel