The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-27
THE REGATTA ON THE HUDSON Cornell Crew Wins the
 Varsity Cup. SYRACUSE WINS A RACE Wisconsin Freshmen Take Eight
 Cared Shell. 6ayaI Academy Boys Viewed the Con- tests From Observation Cars weather was Fine and the
 sport Good.


 the intercollegiate regatta for the eighth time. late this afternoon in the most exciting race ever run over the four mile Poughkeepsie course.
 CornelPs overtures was POOP 2-5; Columbia was second: United States Naval Academy third; Pennsylvania fourth: Wisconsin fifth; Georgetown sixth and Syracuse did not finish, her shell being swamped half mile from the finish The Ithacans won by the narrowest margin from Columbia and not until the finish was crossed did the judges announced that Cornell had won, the thousands of spectators both affoat and ashore were in doubt as to which crew won the victory. Cornell and Columbia fought for the honors over the whole four miles of the course and at no time during the entire dis tance were the two shells more than 25 feet apart Columbia led for over three miles and then Cornell took the lead only to lose it to Columbia again. In the last hundred feet of the race. Cornell, by a tremendous squirt. shot the nose of her shell out into the lead and swept over the finish under the glare of big searchlight on board the United States Monitor Arkansas. five feet ahead of Columbia. The Annapo- lis crew rowed a magnificent race and finished two lengths behind Columbia. Syracuse captured the honors of the YArSiLy 1OuE O3EeQ ShelIS rom GOTH ell, Pennsylvania and Columbia which finished in the order named. Syracuse finished two lengths ahead of Cornell and her time over the two mile course was 10 minutes 37 1-5 seconds.
 Wisconsin won the freshman Soar ed shell race over the course of two miles, leading Syracuse over the finish line by one length and covering the distance in nine minutes 56 seconds. Pennsylvania was third, Columbia fourth and Cornell fifth. Columbia. gowed the last quarter of the mile with hn elmost waterlogged shell which fill- nd near the stern when three feet of planking was ripped out by striking S submerged log.
 Metcagf Secs Race. e The Varsity race was postponed uf- til after o'clock on account of the rough water. Twenty thousand people saw the races. Secretary of the Navy Metcalf viewed the. contest from the gunboat Yankton while nearly 400 Midshipmen cheered the Annapolis crew from the observation train and from
 big bridge and coming towers of
 United States monitors Arkansas
 da and Nevad, anchored near the
 line.
 ten the time approached for the
 ace at 6 o'clock tonight, a south
 breeze was blowing up the river
 'ucking the fast ebbing tide. The
 
 loon ceased and through the
 clouds the sunlight lit up the
 as they drifted aimlessly await
 be called to the start Dark
 vas fast falling when the start
 gnaf was blown and the Midship-
 ould scarcely be seen as they
 heir position on the off side.
 nbia had the shore position; Cor
 .cond, Syracuse third, PennsyI- wanna fourth, with Georgetown fifth Wisconsin sixth and the Naval Ac9d- emy seventh. There was a long pause as the crews hung at the line. The gun flashed and the race was on. With a great stroke of their blades the navy and Columbia shells shot out, leaving Cornell and the other group close to- gether. Columbia quickly took a slight lead over the navy, which in turn fell behind Cornell. Columbia rowed a steady even stroke. averaging in the first mile 34 to the minute Cor nell rowed thirty-four strokes while the Navy was hitting up a forty stroke Georgetown fall far behind in the first quarter of the journey and Columbia and Cornell rowed side by side with the slender prov of the Columbia hali a length behind the Ithacan crew while far outside on the course, the Navy was rowed in third position and trying to stave off a squirt from Penn sylvania which was pressing the sail ormen closely for third position. Syra-
 Wisconsin fell back gradual lg the first mile post Columbia
 cad of half length over Cor le Navy spurted and creeping
 with Cornell for second at the .. while Pennsylvania was third racuse fourth, Wisconsin fifth .rr rgetown hopelessly last.
 Exciting Finish.
 leaders went by the one mile
 If mark Cornelis stroke, Cox,
 the swinging of his blade and
 ing backs of the Ithacans pull
 | much power on the bending L- lade their shell fairly leap out of l.. Tater. Columbia answered the challenge and. the two crews raced madly along with Pennsylvania and Annapolis still fighting for third po- sition. On the crews raced for the next mile, the positions never chang ing and none seemingly to gain the slightest advantage. Out from under the big bridge Cornell increased Ger stroke to thirty-four and squirting took the lead. Columbia held to her thirty two stroke and then Coxswain Win slow seeing Cornell slowly forging ahead yelled to the stroke to increase the pace The big form of Stroke Chorus bent forward with deeper and quicker strokes followed by the crew be- hind him, the Columbia shell cut down the lead of Cornell to a couple of feet. The leaders were now within half a mile of the finish. The Annapolis crew increased their stroke to forty and opened up two lengths between the shell and Pennsylvania, which was fourth, Syracuse was fifth, Wisconsin sixth and Georgetown seventh.
 Columbia kept up the terrific sprint and when her bow nosed out ahead of Tarnau fha cheers from the ( COlumDia men were deafening. Go on, Colum- bia," was yelled necessarily.
 Columbia and Cornell were within 100 yards of the finish when Cornell made the final effort Amid a gun fire and shrieking of whistles the eadel g neared the finish line on which played a great bar of white light from the searchlight on the monitor Arkansas. CornSlrs steady low stroke shot the