New-York tribune., 1910-06-26
CORNELL CREWS AGAIN
SWEEP HUDSON, CLEAN
Dusk Wells Stirring Finish Varsity Race While Thousands Shore
Cheer Winner They Do Not Know.
TBv Telesraph 10 The Trihune !

BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune
Poughkeepsie, n. Y. June 25.-The ex-
pected and the unexpected happened on
the Hudson this afternoon: Cornell
swept the river, as the most confident Of
her admirers believed she would. and
Pennsylvania had the crew that gave
battle to the veteran and well trained
oarsmen from Ithaca to the end.
Rowed in the dark, with the water
rough, and under conditions that could
hardly have been worse, Pennsylvania
suddenly jumped into fame. For three
miles, and all through that gruelling,
heartrending fourth, the Pennsylvanians
fought the Cornell eight, losing out at
the finish by less than half length
after as stirring and wonderful a squirt
as any crew has ever made on the Hud-
son.
Columbia, which has been second to
the winners for the three preceding re-
gattas, was left behind at the tWomile
mark, when Cornell and Pennsylvania
forged to the front and fought it out to
the finish The New York crew was not
outclassed; it simply did not have the
Drawn and muscle in the shell to carry
it through the rough and heavy going
of the course far out in the middle of the
stream. Syracuse and Wisconsin were
left in the ruck and lost in the gloom
that surrounded the crews when they
swept across the line.
Race a Brilliant Duel.
The race was a brilliant duel between
Cornell and Pennsylvania, with the tide
OF fortune favoring the one and then
Just as quickly switching to the other. 1t
was much the same as race here three
years ago, when Columbia had her sec
ond birth and came into prominence In
rowing after years Of obscurity. When
the two crews swept under the bridge,
that monument of the strength and
weakness of all crews that row under
it. there was nothing in the form dis
pIayed by either to indicate the victor
The Ithacans tried their famous spurt
but they mad once again found crew
that could match that squirt with one
equally good There was momen-
tary gain for the Cornell shell, but 1t
was momentary only, for the Red and
Blue oarsmen gamely responded to the
call of their coxswain and sent up their
stroke.
The Pennsylvania shell kept shooting
along in the same even tenor which had
marked its progress all the way down
the course. and for another half mile
the Quakers hung to the Cornell shell
with the perseverance of bulldog; but
age and weight told at the three and a
half mile mark, and then the Ithacans
made the bid that pulled them half
length ahead and kept them there to the
finish. which was shrouded in the murk
and gloom of an evening mist.
Cornell Makes a Clean Sweep.
IT was a Cornell day from first to last.
E,verything went the Ithacans' way, the
four-oared race, the freshman race ana
the varsity race Cornell supporters
had all they could do to contain them
solves when their crews swept down the
stream to victory in the first two races
When the crews We're lost IN the dark
ness near the finish line in the race of
tho day and it became impossible to dis
.;reuish who had won, their confidence
NAV have wavered for moment. but
tbe flashing signals and bursting bombs
,,,,ickIv told the story of another Cornell
SWEEP" and the JOY of the Ithacans
knew no bounds
Aside from the wonderful perform
a,ces made by the Cornell crews, the
poughkeepsie regatta of 1910 will go
down as a colossal piece of misnianage-
,,ent Had 1t not been for the rowing
os the crews, once they were started
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