The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-06
BRITISH PRE EsS OPINIONS.
Leanders' Victory Due to Superior
 Methods Rather Than Strength

| London, July 6.-Now that the strug- gle is over. 1t is confessed, as the Daily Chronicle remarks, that Pennsylvania has given us some anxious moments, :" l but nothing more is heard of any ne- | cessity of altering the rules governing the regatta It is regarded as quite
 natural that the challenge should be re- | peated next year and the idea meets with the greatest satisfaction. Lean 1 der's victory is almost universally con ceded to have been due to superior methods rather than superior strength. | The Daily Graphic, however, voices the l opinion of the minority, who think to | the contrary holding that the ''Amerf
 can stroke should not be condemned" | Pennsylvania made the boat travel at great rate" says the Daily Graphic,
 and was beaten by one of the best
 crews seen at Henley for some years | Mir Lehman in the Daily News writes as follows: After a race in
 which the visitors displayed gallantry and determination worthy of the most | unqualified praise, we won by more | than length. After this there can be no further discussion of styles. The English, based on long experience and tried in hundreds of races through a period of many years, has again secur- ed victory That really ends the dis cussion We all felt that the Ameri- cans were the best foreign crew who ever tried conclusions with us, and 1t has certainly added to the pleasure of our victory to have prevailed over so plucky, a determined and chivalrous a | foe.
 MT Lehmann's words fairly repre- sent all the comment in the London newspapers. The keenest satisfaction and good will are expressed on all sides and the highest praise is bestowed upon | the sportsmanlike behavior of the Penn- sylyania crew. There can be no ob- lection" says the Standard, ito the promise of Pennsylvania to hustle, us | next year. They failed to secure the | cup. but they helped to make the first | Henley regatta of the century mem | orable one.'
 The Henley correspondent of the l Daily Telegraph says: Eff the verdict
 had been the other way, complications might have ensued which would not | have been wholly beneficial to Henley crews next year, for it might have been l necessary to compose one crew so strong that the others would have suf- ] fered The Pennsylvanians rowed their style to perfection; but it was swing and elasticity which beat mechanical perfection. It has now been proved,
 we think, that the severe training which deprived the Pennsylvania boys from enioving any of the fun of the regatta is not the best, and we believe l the Americans will frankly recognize
 this fact. It may be taken for granted that the Bucks shore was not worth more than a quarter of length to the l Americans
 The correspondent then refers to pr. l Whites effort to get the winning crew in the Oxford Cambridge boat race l next March to race at Poughkeepsie In l the following July and says:
 | Tt would be very difficult 10 arrange l this because the crews disperse into | various college combinations and sev- eral Henley crews would thereby suf- fer. Probably the visit of our athletes | in the autumn will be all that can be