The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-09-09
Grew PUT NO LIFE
. 3. INTO THEIR ROWING
Did Not Equal Practice Perform
ances When Competing
! Against Cambridge.
BY Captain Frank 7eddlngton.
New York Herald Special Gable Service Copy
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New York Herald Special Gable Service Copy
right, 1906, by the New York Herald.
y London, Sept. S.-The great race be-
tween Harvard and Cambridge uni
versity has resulted in a victory for
the English crew. From first to last l
must say the Harvard boys gave the
most disappointing display and never
their practice. They seemed to have
no life or dash and seemed to have re-
signed themselves to the inevitable, for
the end of the first mile they settled
down to steady paddle Of 81 strokes
per minute. Altho nearly length
behind, they were rowing a shorter
stroke than usual and gave the impress:
again I waited for the squirt which
never came till four miles, had been
covered. It is quite possible that the
enormous crowd and the intense excite
ment may have affected them, but the
moment Cambridge took the lead till
The end Of the race the Harvard boys
tlidn It trouble, and at the end of the
lace, being quite close to the press
bunch, examined all the crew care
not detect sign of distress about any
OF them, and yet Cambridge won by
only two lengths. This was over a
K course nearly four and half miles in
extent.
Quite recently Stuart, the Cam
(. bride stroke, was heard to say: eve
shall win by 200 yards.' This, Of
course, meant that the Cambridge crew
were determined to win by as far as
possible.
1t Is my opinion that had the Har-
ward crew exercised different central
ship and rowed with greater determina-
ton the" result would have been re-
versed. In the last minute Harvard
rowed thirty eight strikes, and the
minute before that thirty-six strokes,
and during the previous half mile had
been gradually reducing the gap be-
| tween the boats without increasing the
rate Of stroke.
Today the Cambridge crew winners
IS seconds. A week ago Harvard,
under circumstances vastly less advan-
tageous, covered the some distance in
Is minutes and Al seconds, being de-
layed over seven seconds at least,
owing to traffic.
Filley, said Ut think it will be a
record" and yet it will be noted Har-
ward was two lengths worse than 10
minutes and 10 seconds referred to
above, Which is really an extraordinary
difference.
Winds Not Bothering.
As 4i regards the winds, there was
winds. Guy Williams even said he
really didn't know what shore he
would select in starting but thought he
preferred Middlesex, which fell to Har.
ward, as Cambridge has won the toss
and chose Surrey shore.
1t was a great surprise to me to re.
mark that when Cambridge commenced
to draw away Harvard would settle
slower than Cambridge, and then not
ther Cambridge went away till it re-
ally seemed as if Harvard had given in,
but meant to finish the course. In the
first. minute Cambridge phulled eleven
Strokes in fifteen seconds, twenty in
thirty seconds and thirty-eight in sixty
II fifteen seconds, nineteen in thirty
Seconds and thirty-nine in sixty sec
/ 0nds.
/ At the end of what is known as the
Concrete wall, about 800 yards from
the start, Cambridge was length in
Front. A most stupendous cheer went
I up from the assembled multitude that
courage the visitors. The mile was
3eached in four minutes and seven sec.
/ ends, Cambridge doing from thirty-two
fp thirty-three, Harvard thirty-one
| strokes per minute. Cambridge in
creased their lead and Harvard settled
down now in the wake of their oppo.
nents as tho for quiet practice row
Hundreds Of boat races have 1 seen
But never has it, been my lot to witness
Such an exhibition, for crew that is
Behind generally tries to catch up by
Il duickening the stroke and making some
supreme effort even if to die in the at.
tempt. Not a sign did Harvard make
They jplodded YEARLY and methodically
as if they had made up their minds to
be beaten. - - ~ T..
At the soap works, now Harrod
Stores, which is about a mile and a
quarter from the start. the distance of
{he crews was two and half lengths
i Ewing one and onc-half lengths day,
Hight between the boats. At Hammer
4 smith Bridge. a distance Of ~ miles
which was reached in seven minutes