The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-06-27
NOW YELL, CORNELL
FOR THREE RACES YOUR STURDY
SONS WON.
WAS FIRST IN EACH EVENT.
CREWS OF OTHER COLLEGES PRAC-
TICALLY OUTCLAsSED.

How the Entries Finished i'm the In
tercOllcgiate Races mt POughkeeP-
sie-PIcntY of Surprises for the
Wise 0nes-CreNvs Thought to be
in Form showed Up Poorly
GcOrGctOwn's Crew Was Worsted
Only by COrneII's-'Varsity Race n
Miserable WallOver.
Poughkeepsie. N. Y, June 26.-Varsl-
ty four-oared races: Two miles, Cor
nell first. time 10 minutes "a seconds,
third of a length over Pennsylvania,
second, time 1875 AS seconds; third,
Wisconsin, time 1858 lis second;
fourth Columbia, time IL minutes and
IA seconds. Best previous time in four
cared race, 10 minutes 81 is seconds
made by Pennsylvania in 1900.
Freshman race: Eight-oared, two
miles. Cornell first, time minutes 10
second; Syracuse second. time 9 min
utes and % 2-5 seconds; Wisconsin
third, time Q minutes and 80 seconds;
Columbia fourth. time minutes Al sec
onds; Pennsylvania fifth, time min
utes 45 seconds. Best previous time
9:191a, made by Yale in 1897.
Varsity race: Four miles. eight-oar-
ed. Cornell first. time Is minutes 81
seconds; Georgetown second, 10 min
utes and % seconds: Wisconsin third,
10 minutes and 20 2-5 seconds; Penn
sylvania fourth. time 10 minutes and
80 S-5 seconds; Syracuse fifth. time 10
minutes SO 3-5 seconds; Columbia sixth,
time 10 minutes and "a 1-5 seconds.
Best previous time IS minutes SO LIS
seconds, made by Cornell in 1901.
There Were Surprises.
For the first time in years there were
distinct surprises in the intercollegiate
races here to-day The crews of prac-
tically unknown quantities and whose
coaches had not predicted or had not
hoped for them anything better than
fourth or fifth places in their respective
races, each finished second in the two
most important races of the day. The
Syracuse heavy crew took such close
second honors in the freshman race
that for the last half mile it was
serious question whether her boys
would not pull to victory.
0eOIBeiOWn University III the VARSITY
race, while finishing a very bad second
to the phenomenal crew put in the race
by Cornell University, walked away
from the other four crews in the race,
old timers with the exception of SYRIA
cuse, in a manner that made the rowing
sharps simply throw un their hats for
joy.
Columbia University crews, from
which very much had been promised,
Hpic In hn YNOocihla Chann
Was CorneIIs Day.
1t was, as it had been for the past
two years, Cornells day. AS in last
years regatta Cornell won all three
races, and while only one record was
broken, 1t is the general consensus of
opinion tonight that had the Cornell
Varsity crew been pressed the record
would have been broken even in that
race.
The Varsity race, as a matter of fact,
was a miserable walkover, Cornell
taking the lead before the mile point
had been reached and rowing away
from her competitors in a manner so
easy that at no time was she ever
pressed for the first place. The result
was that in the last mile, where II
pushed, she would have rowed from
81 to 33 strokes per minute, she held
Is clip almost to the finish, crossing
the line at not over thirty strokes per
minute and fully nine lengths ahead of
all competitors.
Georgetown's Fine Work.
But the work of Georgetown In the
Varsity race was a great surprise. Her
crew, instead of being, as in previous
years here, vacillating in stroke and
form, was in both respects extremely
steady. At the second mile when it
was supposed that both Georgetown
and Syracuse would have been practi-
cally finished for any place except fifth
or sixth, this remarkable crew, with
a slight increase of stroke, pulled
steadily out of the bunch, and while
absolutely unable to reduce the eIlor-
NOUS lead of Cornell, showed its SUI
pefiority over all the other crews in
the race.
Prior to the races, the four-oared
event was practically conceded to
Pennsylvania, because her four were
known to have had more practice than
the others and to have shown better
form, but Cornell beat her out by a
third of a length.
The Freshman eight-oared event was
one Of the great surprises of the day
Cornell did not disappoint her adher-
ents, the Ithacans first breaking the
intercollegiate record by a second and
a half, while the Syracusans Jumped
from last place, awarded them by pub
lie opinion, to good second place, los
ing the race only in the last quarter
mile upon terrific squirt by Cornell.