The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-06-28
''pENNSY"
A WINNER !
Against the Crews Of Wisconsin
Cornell and Columbia.
WISCONSIN VERY CLOSE SECOND

The Splendid Oarsmen From the west
Led From the start, and Had the
Race we'll In Hand, whom Their Cox
swain's Bad Steering Defeated Them.
Poughkeepsie. NY, June 2S.-.Twen-
~ thousand people yesterday saw one
Of the most exciting four mile boat
races ever witnessed IN the history OF
college rowing. Five thousand people
on the observation train yelled them
selves hoarse in frantic appeals to the
various college crews to do their best,
and with the other 600 they saw the
Pennsylvania crew come over the line
by a short half length from the Wis
conslns. who lost in the last 200 yards
by bad steering. Cornell, the victor In
former years, pulled after, full four
lengths in the rear, and Columbia.
never in the fight after the end of the
first mile, trailed in a good three
lengths from the stern Of the Cornell
boat.
It was the kind OF a race that makes
the blood tingle, and was made so by
the crew that came over a thousand
miles to meet former victors, for with
out the gallant Wisconsins in the race
| It would have been a doleful process
sion after the second mile was scored.
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 OBJ
! servation train inquiringly and were
| told that It was Wisconsin they were
| almost dumb with amazement. and
| when those on the train saw the gall
| liant struggle, mile after mile, they
| dropped their appeals for their own
crews and yelled in a friendly manner
for the boys from the west.
The Badgers n Surprise.
The alleged ragged stroke. the badly
keeled boat, the too long reach, all
were forgotten as the fast moving craft
kept its sharp nose to the fore, and
| then the people saw the leaders turn
| out toward the shore at the finish and
lose the race to the men from Penn
| sylvania by a short half length. Well
| did the Pennsylvanians obey the in
| junction Of Ellis Ward to not lose their
/ hNhhHs Il AbAAl NlAt III oA GiEllAlA VI a llAle
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 An
| good time and by such a small mar
| gin that the glory is greater.
For Cornell, the winner of many
battles, 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 1t was only by exertions
| of phenomenal nature that she man
aged to keep the nose of the boat
ahead of Pennsylvania for a brief time
| In the second mile. OF Columbia II
may be said that she was outclassed
from the start. and, barring an acci-
dent, there was never time when she
stood a chance of winning the race.
| She went to the rear In the first quar-
| ter Of a mile, although she made a good
start and stayed all through the race
When the crews were called out TO
| prepare for the start II was rather pitt
| full to hear the three eastern crews get
| cheer after cheer and the western crew
not any. The race was started at 1908,
| after the crews had been twice called
back. On the third attempt 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 settled
| in the stroke taught them by the vari-
Gus coaches Wisconsin seemed to be
rowing the least number of strokes
per minute of any of the crews, but
her boat was going faster than any OF
the others, Wisconsin rowed 80, Penn
sylvania 50, Cornell "a and Columbia
SS. Before the first eighth mile was
finished the Wisconsin boat had showed
its nose ahead of the other crews, witt
Cornell second, Pennsylvania hanging
we'll on to her. and Columbia third
dropping astern.
The Fight For second Place,
When the first half mile was reached
so fast was the Wisconsin boat going
that 1t had taken it's whole length
ahead of the Pennsylvania boat and
was half length ahead OF the Cornell
boat on the extreme east. Columbia
was rowing with the nose OF her boat
Just overlapping Pennsylvania. Fran,
tically the Pennsylvania rooters on thC
train yelled at their crew, and IN {
few minutes they shot their boat III
even with the Cornell boat. But tC
catch Wisconsin was not so easy. WheI
the mile was reached the Wisconsin
boat had lead of a clear length ovel
Pennsylvania, while Cornell and Penn
sylvania were see-sawing. The Wis
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