The sun., 1908-06-28

doWnefream TOO far villa tho uuo ~ "ab
then almost ten minutes late and every
added minute made It better for Columbia
and Syracuse. those orews being on tho
outside courses. whore the tide was getting
stronger every click OF the watch. Referee
Eustis had q couple of long calls sounded
| for the late comers and presently they
came up the stream together. rowing along
ssee the new bow ON the Syracuse boat
| said a Syracuse man. John Hoyle, the
| Cornell boat builder. put that on for us
The old man was afraid it would hurt our
but / guess tn hold all right. Say, wheh
| Syracuse gave John Hoyle $50 for his dayh
work he didn't want to take ti IL Hs .s;Ta said Z
Cornell to let us have him.
"Yep," replied Columbian, and you nee
| that we have longer shell than last year.
| We got beat three feet last year. 80 Rice
| decided we'd better have a shell three feet
longer this time"
Well, you'll need one a little longer
still when our crew gets through. returned
the Syracusan, you wait and see.'
READY FOR THE START.
| It was about 5:12 O'Clock when they were
In line. One after another they answered
yes" when the referee asked II they were
ready. and then after the cry. Are you
ready, alp" camo the crash Of the gun.
Away they rushed savagely. eleaving the
water and splashing amain with those first
to the front, only to be supplanted there
| by Wisconsin, which was burning the water
with AZ to the minute. After the Badgers
hot and heavy pelted the Pennsylvanians.
! Away out in the middle OF the river
| was the Syracuse crew going serenely
along so far out that it was hard to SEQ
Just where the Onondagans were COM
pared with the others. As for Cornell the
| lthacans didn't get much attention, be-
1 - tzr.lt< hat
old man Courtney had said about his men
not having a ghost of show, 1t was slap
| bang all the way for the first few minutes.
and probably no crew ever tried TO row
a higher stroke than that set for those
Wisconsin men for the first part OF the
| race. 1t was insanity. No crew could
| live through it, no matter whether even
so extraordinary a man as Ed Pen Eyck
| was their coach, but Dinet never let it down
for the first half mile. He was going so
| OF that race Harvard rowed against Yale
| at New London. one Of the races In which
you make the other fellow follow pace
that kills him. Only in the long run 1t was
| Wisconsin which got the worst OF it. Even
at that Wisconsin was not alone in its fool
| ishness. Emig. the Pennsylvania stroke.
wasn't going to let the Badgers get away
| from him and cross over into his water.
so he hit it up too and held them over
where they belonged.
| It was rip and slash all the way that first
half mile and when It ended Pennsylvania
had achieved even terms with the Badgers
and great roar OF joy broke from the
Pennsyivanians on the train. But Cornell
wasn't doing badly for rotten Grew and
was right up with the end Of the Wisconsin
shell. The Ithacans we're holding their
! own by dint OF a smooth and perfect style,
and athoush the paoe Wss wa nng .ney
, Columbia and Syracuse were almost on even
terms away out. both going along In what
looked TO be almost even terms with Cornell.
| But Columbia appeared to be rowing slug..
their stroke as II they were steadily dropping
back.
Pennsylvania LEADS.
The first ripping half mile, which passed.
almost before there was a chance to say
Gee. what stiff pace the Badgers and me
post was reached and passed the Phila-
delphians slapped in several savage strokes
and drew ever SO slightly ahead. Then
what a roar from the Pennsylvanians who,
hnr fnse Es o it, %ard hs1 ssd esrsa mapn
! where they all break up and Penn. wins
| and in all conscience 1t looked like II, be-
cause the Quakers, once ahead. made play
very rapidly for that advantage. They
just slammed it in until they had left Wis
consin three parts OF a length in the rear.
| Out on the other side Syracuse too hit it
up. and the fast reoeding Badgers were on
even terms with the upstate men. Column
bia, dropping was even with Cornell in the
why that Columbia crew Is rotten
said one clisgusted New Yorker. They're
lost now and it isn't even mile!' 1t looked
that way too. because Columbia and Cor
| nell were going so smoothly, without any
| OF that hurry and jerk of the others, that
| they didn't appear, to be rowing at all.
| Every minute of this time the crews were
going along at rate that few have at
miles. The Badgers and Quakers hadn't
succeeded in shaking OF the others and
although it was near mile the crews hadn't
broken up into two sections az they used
to do. -, ., ..
weren't making much EFFORT 10 got out into
! the stream where the current was better,
| Pennsylvania and Wisconsin keeping along
| as they were. and Cornell through being
between them was forced to keep along
| banding their strength. and they knew
what they were about.
CREWS RACE IN CLOSE ORDER.
That first mile was done IN minutes and
| 40 seconds. The Badgers weakened though
they had not given up entirely yet and
| Dnet was still sending them along at
stroke that outteneycked Ten Eyck. But
the others were crawling up. Pennsylvania
was almost full length in the lead, with
the Badgers and Syracuse in hot pursuit.
All the uTne tnS fefHbylNdnld duntfcht5
| kept up fire of hoorahs and cries for their
! crew. and they were atanch in their bebef
! that this was the way it was going TO end.
, The others could chase. but they would
| still be left behind. There was a kaleido-
scope of alterations in the following mile
| First one and then another made almost
| inappreciable advances. Now Cornell
seemed to be coming up. and then 1t war
| Columbia. Then Syracuse started a squirt.
| Wisconsin, almost out Of It in the back
water one moment. the next was rating
along with the bese Of them. For stroke
after stroke it went along so. There were
no changes in tho order. but only in that
infinitesimal distance which separated one
! from the other. 1t was a matter of a blanket
| forty feet wide that would have covered
the tip end of the shell Of every one Of those
| FIVE crews.
SYRACUSE TAKES THE LEAD
Then OF sudden came a change. They
, were nearing the two mile mark when
burst OF cheering uproee from the Syracuse
cars in the train. The lean nose. somewhat
patched of that shell had poked its nose
to the front. So gradual had been the
Syracuse approach that few had really
| given the Syracuse men credit for attempt