The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-28

just overlapping feHHSylVdIld. FTdu-
tically the Pennsylvania rooters on the
train yelled at their crew and the
Quakers seemed to respond. as in
few minutes they shot their boat up
even with the Cornell boat but to catch
Wisconsin was not so easy. On a per-
fectly even keel with the bodies going
well back together and the heads SEEM
ing as if they would swing off the
shoulders, a feature that seemed to
make the critics believe that they
would go to pieces after the first mile,
the Wisconsin flew on. When the mile
was reached the Wisconsin boat had
a lead Of a clear length over Pennsyl-
vania, while Cornell and Columbia We're
see-sawing. The Wisconsin crew had
settled down to a stroke of thdrty-two
to the minute, the boat never checking
between the strokes and the blades cut
ting the water as keenly as knife. The
slow recovery and the slow stroke had
behind it a wonderful power and the
Wisconsin boat Eever checked or
stopped as it went toward the second
mile.
In the meantime Pennsylvania and
Cornell were having as pretty fight
for second place as has ever been seen
on the course. Time and time again
the Cornell crew put a. little more back
in the stroke and sent the nose of their
boat even with that OF the Quakers.
But it was quite apparent that there
was a little chance of their holding it
there
When the Wisconsin crew had
reached the mile and quarter point
they eased off trifie in their stroke,
rowing for two or three minutes at
| thirty-one.
At the same time Cornell picked up
their stroke and showed their boats
nose slightly ahead Of Pennsylvania
and overlapping the stern of the Wis
consin shell. But with apparent ease
the Wisconsin stroke went back to it's
regular thirty-two and the boat shot
ahead again a. good half length. AT
the same time Pennsylvania boat.
which had been tagging a half length
behind Cornell, shot up level with the
Cornell boat, while Columbia, making
desperate effort placed the nose of
the shell near Pennsylvania stern.
At the two and three-quarter mile
point Cornell began to drop back again
a little, in spite of the injunctdons of
the coxswain, who was frantically APP
pealing to his men, while Pennsylvania
spurted ahead little and finally Tapped
the Wisconsin shell, while she had
fair length of advantage over Cornell.
In the last quarter of the second mile,
where the race goes under the great
Poughkeepsie bridge, the crews of
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin struggled
like demons but Wisconsin was rowing
better than Pennsylvania. AS they
passed under the bridge, Wisconsin had
a length ON Pennsylvania and one and
half over Cornell Just after they
passed the bridge, Pennsylvania made
another endeavor to close up the gap
and did succeed in tapping their boat
over the Badgers stern, but the West
erners Immediately responded, increas-
ing their stroke slightly at this time.
Cornell had evidently lost it's ability
to put any more power in the stroke
and could not keep up the pace set by
the two crews ahead. Slowly the bow
man of the Pennsylvania boat lined UP
with the coxswain in the Wisconsin 8
boat, but just as he. had come on a
line with him the Wisconsin crew re-
sponded to the squirt and drew their
boat away. It was at this point that
Wisconsin, was seen to swe-ve badly
toward the western shore and to the
surprise of everybody, maintained this
course, although it took them inside Of
a number of small pleasure boats and
fully 500 yards, if they maintained their
angle, out of their course at the finish
Naturally the Pennsylvania boat, pulled
desperately by the Quakers, gained
upon the Wisconsin boat and as they
mas sod mt q St n ri
of the shells were on line. The Wis
consn boat unable to turn back into
it's 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 CT
the Pennsylvania shell came out inch
by inch until it crossed the line
scant half a length aheSd of the Bad
gers boat. 1t was a. finish that set
wild with delight every lover of good
sport The Cornell boat VAST fully three
lengths to the rear of the wisconsin
boat while the Columbia's finished their
stern chase at more than four lengths
behind Cornell:
Time, official, 20 minutes and sec
onds, while the time taken by the AS
socdated Press was 20 minutes 1 3-5
seconds.
Coxswain of the Wisconsins explained
his steering out of the course as fol-
lows:
Just as we were passing under the
big bridge" he said, II noticed large
berry crate floating right ahead of us.
hard on our port bow. In a few sec
onds we would have struck it, and n
order to avoid a disastrous collision,
1 veered sharply toward the shore, go
ing SO far out Of our course that I
realized that if I were to attempt to
get back again. the movement would
probably cost us the half length that
we were then in the lead of Pennsyl- i
yanda and looking down among the
small boats inside the course and see
ing what 1 thought a chance to pass
among them and reach the finish line.
I 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 circum-
stances
Official summary:
Pennsylvania's time, 20:O4; Wiscon-
sins, 2O:O51a; Cornell's. 20:13; Column
bias, 1920. The record for this course
is 1929.
Down With the Macombe Robbers.
HARTSvILLE (Mo9, June 27.-The
courts here are done with the Macombe
train robbers. Lewis Nigh to-day
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to
twelve years in the penitentiary. The