The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24

myaclt hs IL tspur,si 10 h,vs told one
wsa tho race ~ the day, the rac- ~
century What 10 more. from dart 10 nnial
thfrr drewa raced side w. aide. end " wa
not until III hut a hall mile ~ the journey
had hopn cnvefed that .uirn water shows
lrtwNrn the luata H. vas anybCsiy''
race and nobOly's race from the marx "
tho bridge. frUtn the bridge a. the Cornell
nn,t. and after that II wss SYRACUSE
There was po'ncthing 70 all this. talh
nhnut tive quality NJ the Wisconsin fresh.
mon. They were good, but WISCONSIN had
Wisconsin luck, The Badger freahies were
rowing 10y, some,hing more than a mers
trophy They were stroking To btild w
the future rowing ~ Wisconsin,
YResHNPN HAD IT NIr mi
Five crews lined up for the start Wis
conain Joining forces with -four others
tina, had been In the four cared event
Columbia had the inshore. while from the
bank they were, IN order Syracuse, Cornei
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. The starter
signal sent the Orangemen 2ipping out IN
front cracking Il on in true Syracuse style.
The Salt City freshies were on the way
with n rush, and Cornell and Wisconsin
took after the yellow .jeraeyed coXswain
with a burst Of something like speed, too
Columbia held pace with tho, PROCESSION
LOT SDIlelnlfBl lht n INhlN'i ih'N'
dropped back to keep company with Penn
sylvania.
The lead shifted here and there all across
the line Of the river. Ono minute II was
Cornell in the middle that led, then It was
the first place was in the keeping. OF Syra-
cuse. And most 1t was young Jim Ten
Eyck's crew that was in front. a boy to
comfort a fathers heart, that. Sick apd
very weak only a couple OF days ago ne
climbed into the boat to-day and pulled
his heart out for his father, his university
and his class, There may have been some
thing big at stake for Wisconsin; there
was something only a little less so for young
jim. 49,
At the half mile Syracuse was cracking
on at thirty-four to the minute and leading
by half a length. Cornell was doing a stroke
a little bit faster. but something a little
smoother than the crew OF old and oun
Ten Evck. At the mile the lead OF the
Orangemen was less and Wisconsin was
the Westerners. Simpson in the Cornell
freshmen boat was getting in ahead OF his
man and breaking up the order Of the boat.
The Cornell crew was pounding hard, but
not going as well as it should have:
Coming to the bridge the foxy Ten Eyos
hard ones. There had to be a lead al the
bridge or else the race was lost. Young
Jim nut ND the speed lever q notch or so
and up crawled the boat. He still was
having trouble TO shake of the other crews,
and try as he would he could not get the
losing ground at the bridge, and with a mile
more to 20 looked to be In difficulties.
Cornell crossed under the huge structure
half a length behind the Syracuse boat, With
Wisconsin twenty feet worse than the
Ithacans.
JIM TEN KYcK HITS Up THE sTRoKE.
Up and up crept the Syracuse stroke
and notch by notch it rose until 1t touched
thirty-seyen to the minute. Young Jim,
the sculler, who could not hope to finish
a hard sweep race was still up and doing.
Bit by bit his boat came away until Shrek
ing applause Of whistles and cracking OF
cannon proclaimed the fact that q half
mile from home there was open water
bet ween Syracuse and Cornell. A foot
perhaps may be a little more, but enough
at any event to show that the race was over
as far as these two were concerned.
Strangely enough when Syracuse ran
way from Cornell, the Ithacans shook off
the persistent Badgers for he first time.
Except for a foot or so hare was open
water between the Wisconsin and Cornell
boats.
"Wisconsin's all In" rose up the cry,
and 30 it seemed. But they were game,
those Western kids as Andy calls them.
and they did not hear what the observation
train was calling. They spurted and Cor,
nell answered as strongly They tried
a gain, and Cornell yielded a bit Of the forty
feet they were ahead. Again the Sac ger
kids tried. and back came the Comedians.
There was a tired lot of young men in that
Ithaca boat, and they almost felt the hand
of the master to fall or them again.
HARD LUoK STOPS THE BADGERS Squirt.
A fourth time the Wisconsin coxswain
On led for diana and WisnonSjn was less
than 80 feet behind. Then came the fateful
rolling swell that came from the churning
wheels Of the old tub Norwich. just why
a tow that Ia kes hours and hours to go a
short distance could not have granted a
few minutes, less than 10 altogether, to the
o~ollegians, is beyond all human knowled &c.
But the impulse to push on cost Wisconsin
second place in the race.
The very last squirt carried the lads right
Into the swells that threw them of an even
keel and carried the shell sidewise. They
lost a few feet OF advantage and the finish
was only a few yards away. Dinet, the Wis.
oonsin stroke, whipped 1t up again and
made a last effort. The Badgers closed with
a rush and sailed over the line ten feet
behind Cornell. The Ithaoans we're down
and out In every hard draw sense OF the
phrase. They were tired. and weary and
glad to be where they could stop rowing and
rest.
And when 1t was all over and the cheering
crowd was glad that Syracuse had won by
hadfnished so we'll up, the judges announced
Columbia, which was three open lengths
back OF the badgers, as third. This was
finally u~nravelled and explained as we'll
as the judges could. Pennsylvania, rowed
out and weary, was a length of open water
back OF Columbia.
Varsity races are generally supposed to
outrauk in interest anything in the line of
a freshman contest. There could be no
better race than that Of the freshmen posi-
BILE, but the varsity men did not have to
apologize. It was a good race and as a
relief from the monotony of seeing Cornell
win easily was a distinct pleasure.
RAIN pRENcHEs Il R wD.
On the way up to the four mile start
before the race began the showers controlled
by the wind drifted around again 70 do
pattering drops to sheets Of water and
finally a deluge that soaked through every