The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-06
DEFEAT OF QUAKER CREW
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Neither crew at the start showed any trace of nervousness and both were sent away in capital style, the Penn | sylvanians rowing 43 to the minute and the Leanders rowing AZ. At the end of Temple Island the Americans led by three feet At Fawley the time was 3 ! minutes 20 2-5 seconds, with Leander | three feet ahead. From there on 1t was splendid struggle, in which Lean- der gained inch by inch. The mile was reached in 5 minutes IS seconds, with Leander half a length ahead, which | they increased to three-quarters of a | length
 At the Isthmian Pennsylvania made a desperate spurt, but 1t, was no good | and two men weakened perceptibly op- posite the grand stand. Leander won | by length Time, minutes 4-5 sec-
 onds
 Tt was a grand race" said Coach | Ward as Leander crossed the finish line. We were simply outrowed and have no other explanation to make | It was perhaps the most exciting race yet seen at Henley. There was scarce | ly the advantage of three feet in the ] Leanders' station. Cheering for the contestants as they struggled for the | lead was terrific. Even Henley had never before heard such wild applause
 as greeted the Pennsylvanians and the Leanders all down the course. The cheering was deIrious as the Leander | boat crossed the line at the finish. The Americans padded slowly to the raft and took their boat out of the wa | ter. Their appearance indicated that they had had hard fight. Stripping as quickly as possible, the Pennsylva- nians were soon in the water for a swim.
 | Stroke Gardiner smiled as he greeted | a representatives of the Associated
 Press, saying: We did not think it, but they were too strong"
 Dr. White said the crew came | through the ordeal as fine as possible, and Captain Flickwer said that indi- vidually, the crew did splendidly. Theodore Cook, the oxford oarsman, writes the following description of the race for the Associated Press:
 "The morning dawned with splendid weather There was very slight breeze off the Bushes, but the wind fell toward noon and there was very little | difference in the station. As the Penn sylvanians padded down to the start all of them wearing huge straw hats and broad smiles, the crowd gave them
 rousing reception, and they padded gayly through the crowd toward Tenn l pie Island. t,t{n.4t
 "A few minutes afterward the Lean ha
 louder still, for there was an enormous
 crowd present, and after the Pennsyl- vanians' two victories the excitement was intense The Americans were evil dently confident, and though the Lean
 dsrs had said nothing, their beautiful form, perfectly together, supple. strong and slastc spoke volumes for their de- termination to make a great race And
 so they did with precisely the result l have invariably predicted ever since saw Ellis Wards boys at their first work on Henley Reach.
 "On Umpire Williams launch was Coach Ward, with Reginald Hart (the
 Pennsylvania graduate manager). Both
 boats came to the post some time be-
 fore the appointed hour, and all the Pennsylvania men seemed happy ana comfortable, especially No 6 G. 5. Al lyn) and stroke c. F. Gardineo. Cap
 tain Flickwir watched the wind care fully. but 1t was worth only a quarter of a length at the most for the first quarter of a mile, and 1t became a tol- lowing breeze with no advantage to either as soon as the boats were past the Farm. f
 "The ropes used to hold the Berks boat steady were hardly even pulled taut as Umpire William leaned over the bows of the launch and said; As soon as this puff of wind has passed l will start you I shall say Are you ready once If there is no answer l shall say Co.,
 "The Pennsyvanians then squared their blades and the coxsWaln put megaphone to his mouth, while every thing grew dead quiet Williams words came with the shock of a cannon. Are you ready?'
 .Ieander's second stroke was in be- fore Pennsylvania's and for a snort time the pink oars were a. few rect ahead But the Pennsylvanians soon wiped out that difference, and by the
 end of the first minute both Zane (bow) and Eisenbray (No. p could see the
 back of the Leander bow.
 "At this encouraging sight all the first four oars rowed like demons and the Pennsylvanans were going raster than they ever went before. But they also had a faster crew beside them, for now the gan between the boats stayed still and now it lessened inch by men, for Payne and Burnell Cof the Lean ders) were swinging out and showing their blades through in magnificent form while the Pennsylvanians Kept up exactly the same, hard clockWork smash, and Flickwir began to watch that bow beside him creep up SLOWLY for another hundred yards, and as both cre,vs at the highest of their pressure
 nassad the Farm the Leanders drew up
 exactly level.
 ",rhen came that crisis in the race which I foretold It was splendid sight to see the American boys refuse
 to let the Leanders up. They slashed their biz blades through the water ana
 mi in all the steam they knew, Allyn, Crowther and Davenport being espe- ciallv efficient, and the boat fairly rush oa ,,rder their efforts. Still the Lean ders stayed where they were. It was no farther forward, but it was no far
 finer hack and every man was swinging
 rioht un to his work, as elastic and free as at the start.
 "And now that long swing began to tell. But only by inches, and it was