The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-06-26

waited and waited. but although the
sind died down somewhat the darkness
Didn't ahate the rolling. II was typica
Hudson Valley weather In which some
times there y a iorty-eight hour con
trary wind
Bit all things must come 20 an end
and AZ length the Fights were lined Nv
and got away Penn and Cornell caught
the water togaihef the OuaKers ROWING
alran twenty strokes In the first hall
minnie and COrnell eighteen. The thres
others got OF a trife le-s an riosisiv than
Cornell, and the raCe vas away.
rENN N FRONT Ar rHE MILE.
Penn chung TO 10 inside course. which
fNr tbs first mile o. 10 was the most shei'
tered o. all and decidedly the most de
Firuhle Cornell wasn't able To swing
in clurs TO shore yet teesssss SyTactze
was clinging on. and the Salt City oars
men were In between Cornell and Penn
Columbia. away on the outside. was
BADLY away and was then last close "a
Wisconsin, which was rather q good
fourth Away they hanged through the
terrible going for a half mile, and here
thu Penn shell appeared TO h. going
n the Quakers did assume the mead
= nj the procession then Il wasn't by much.
End Cornell was a foot or N the worse
" that much Syracuse and Cornell
we're almost une crew u twelve men.
- close together were the bOwmen Of
she Syracuse and the stern oarsmen u
Cornell u certainly looked like Penn
by about seven feet at the first mike. and
then all Of a sudden a change took place
In the order Columbia moved up all
a. once and challenged the two leaders.
Cornell at a mile and a quarter was lead
ing Columbia and Penn nv ever 30 little.
while Syracuse Was dropping back to-
ward Wisconsin
AZ a mile ard a half the order was that
of the finish. although the distances were
not 80 great. and the race here began %
take shape They were near the tWO
mile mark when Penn began "a veer
slightly OF toward the middle Of the river
This mnat have caught the WatChful
eve II Ellis Ward. for up from the whistle
" the Franklin. the coaching launch,
few a pun Of white The Penn shell
worked back toward the shore again.
ard who can tell how many feet were
saved there
CORNELL CATCHES PENN
n there was an inch between Penn
and Cornell &C the two miles the OBJ
narvation trains couldn't tell In the dark
noes which had closed in fast with the sink
ing u the sin. Columbia was in open
water. just a narrow band OF IL. la
laCk Of those coupled shells. with
nNNLLumH. now UlAAMN uEANfM nAGMs
aud Wisconsin also badly trimmed on
toward the rear. The observation train
folks because they couldn't tell much Of
what was going on BOWED and Cheered,
and although Cornell had thu majority
Of the OnlOOkers among ia adherents
Penn found friends every moment friends
who grew the stancheT a. the chances
improved for a licking for the great Cor
nellans. a crew that, according TO
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Cornell had had IN many year. II that
was the case Il was a crew that came
very near finding a Fnaster where least
expected
A, the two miles and a half the Penn
boathOuse stands. On the runway Of this
vas old Gil Ward. Elliss brother. dancing
up and down and waving his hands like all
possessed. tie had something 10 look at
TOO. beoauss Penn and Cornell still were
locked IN the tightest grip The lthacans
were enjoying one advantage, however.
because thsy closed over toward Penn
taking syracuse water. The up-Staters
20. old man len EyCk weren't al al able
o." hold che cup and they had 10 yield.
'uen they dropped hack L was A b {
saategy that Cornell would come over
into their water ~ as 10 enjoy the com
Iarltively smooth going 10 shore.
Ana ~ they kept on and IN, rom the
4 Penn boathouse % the ferry slip and then
down under the arches Of the huge - idery
N bridge. some great flying machine OF
the dAyH 10 come may swoOp down over
the course above these crews, but never
will TINA bird Sc two crews that we're
more nearly one a. they crashed down past
tho stone buttresses. They were one a.
they came through, and Columbia was right
alter them there. too, because the New
Workers were only a half length Of Opsn
water In hack they were One az three
miles and a quarter but here. a. many a
Cornell crew has done before. the race
vas solved
CORNELL sPURrs FoR LEAD.
That MARI which signals only three
quarters Of a mile 10 20, "a just about the
Cornell boathOuse. When the men get
"A glimpse Of that out Of the tinisst corner
u their eyes Il means just this, -sp r.. .
IL means u In the biggest capitals thrre
are. and when they maze that heaye they
are doing their BEST 10 finish the race be-
fore IL IL really over
Il was here they broke the tie with the
Penn she'll and u was here that the race
was ended. The observation train could
ses the silver bright oars Of Cornell sep
arated from the darker hued ones Of
Pennsylvania. and up % tbs darkening
skies rose the cheers Of triumph 81 the
D Lthaoans. There wasn't much 10 h at
first, Just a foot Then came another and
another. and when tbs squirt was done
Penn was hanging about fifteen feet TO
the rear Il was no Harvard crew that
Cornell had 10 do with. for which just one
squirt was enough. Young Rsath replied
IN kind but Bowen. anticipating the
challenge before Il evsr carre. clashed
back with another squirt that followed
be instant 3 rest. Cornell held it, fifteen
est.
LAST HALF NILE TERRIFIC.
They were within half a mills OF the
finish then. n grim and desperate half
mile 10 go. There we're only two crews
: IN the race then. II looked like one crew
/ or the other must yield; Il did not seem
possible that they could keep it up for
J the fragment that remained But they
stuck % their task stroke for stroke
and once again a. Conell's great eight
] did last year when Columbia challsngsd
20 the lthAoans proved their mettls.
4 They paid squirt Tor squirt, heaye for
hsave, catch for catch and even before
the lights Of home showed a furlOnR
away those who could make out the ahells
creeping along tho face Of the waters
knew hat all was over.
II was half q length a. most that Cornell
won by. but Cornell won. Up from the
bridge flashed a bomb. broke and sky
ward went a pun 81 smoke. One,
counted the crowd. tumbling down out
Of the observation cars. One is Penn's
lans' Then came q second and then q
third. and they knew what had happened
Cornell was IN cOurse 3 and that crew was
the first TO the line Columbia beaten
by the forcs Of all that has been said
rolled over the finish for a good third we'll
ahead OF Syracuse. which was wards and