New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-30
Win Three Races in Exciting
Regatta as Thirty Thousand
la Persons Look On.
COLUMBIA FAILS TO SHINE
Finishes Third in Varsity Strug-
gle. While Wisconsin Fights
1t Out with the Men
from ithaca.
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rBy Telegraph TO The Tribune
pourhkeepsie. n Y. June 29.-Three
wonderful crews. manned by Cornell
men and coached by Charles f Court
rev.. the wizard Of rowing, once more
swapt. all before them on the Hudson
River here to-day. in one Of the greatest
regsttas ever held over the course. In
,bA big race Of the day for varsity
a,ehte Cornell led most Of the way and
Won easily by three lengths while Wis
consin beat Columbia length for the
rlace Syracuse was fourth, Pennsyl-
vania fifth. and Stanford. which trav
eued three thousand miles TO measure its
strength with the best in the East,
trailed home distant last.
" the freshman eight-oareG race Cor
nell again beat Wisconsin, while syria
rrse was third. PENNSYLVANIA fourth and
.C6lun9bia last In the varsity four
cared race the order Of finish was Cor
,reH Columbia. syracuse and Pennsyl-
vania
What little honor was left after Cor
nelrs crews had swept the Hudson clean
went 70 the plucky oarsmen from Wis
consin. but in all three races there was
another demonstration Of the concen-
trated skill. aggressveness ard Drawn
thai Courtney sends out to win his
races and Cornell amply showed super
f5ritv To the crews, however, that
travelled from the shores of Lake Men
dota. in far off Wisconsin. there must
10 almost as much credit.
80. = Columbia not Factor.
For the once Columbias crews we're
rot prime factors in the regatta. To be
sure. the Columbia four won its spurs
rv rowing second TO the greatest four
cared crew that Cornell has ever turned
out. bur the Columbia varsity eight was
no match for the peerless Cornell crew
and was unable 10 hold the determined
gadgers. who pressed up with Won
derful stroke in the last mile of what
will 20 down as one of the greatest
struggles that has ever been seen on
The, Hudson.
II was Wisconsin that even with
substitute in the boat, pulled up inch by
inch on the Ithacans with a powerful
stroke that knew no checking, and II
was the Wisconsin freshman crew that
pushed the Cornell youngsters 10 the
limit Of their speed and were second
after a wearing grind
II was the fifth time that Courtney's
wonderful crews have swept the river,
and it made another chapter in the his
tory Of Cornell rowing that is as bright
as any that has gone before Truly
Courtney is the grand old man OF the
river, and no one would doubt this state
ment if he had seen the wild crowd OF
Cornell graduate oarsmen, who idolized
him in the Cornell boathouse after the
race. Ten times out Of the last twelve
races in which Cornell has rowed On the
Hudson the Ithacans have showed in
front, and their sweep to-day was the
fifth that has come. In 1902, 1908, 1909,
1910 and again in 1912, Cornell has
known no rival great enough to win even
a single race. 1t is a record that is q
q. worthy commentary on Courtney's school
of rowing.
Few races rowed on the Hudson have
been so dramatic as the one which
formed the climax of one Of the great
est regattas Of the decade. Crews were
made and broken in that first mile Of the
varsity race Columbia, TO put II frank
~, had before It task for which it was
unequal, but which no one had suspect
cd. Then there was the Syracuse crew,
which every one had expected TO battle
with the leaders, done TO crisp before
It had rowed a mile. Wisconsin, a crew
Of fine broad shouldered giants, whose
homes are on the borndless prairies Of
the vast West, learned how to row, II
would seem. in that first mile. and with
each succeeding furlong got together
bstter and better, and at the finish
rowed as It had never rowed before.
Then there was that wonderful set Of
men who travelled the width Of the con-
tinent TO show the East just what kind
Of athletes are developed on the Pacific
Coast There was not a gamer and bet
ter fighting lot Of men on the river this
afternoon than those from Leland Stan
ford. But Of rowing they knew abso-
lutely nothing.
r, Stanford Men Game TO tho Core.
Coachless, friendless and almost penni-
less these young men from Palo Alto
showed they were true sports. Theirs
was losing fight from the moment they
set foot on Eastern soil, but like true
fighters that they are they stuck to It,
Their bitter disappointment to-day may
be the beginning Of better things for
them. Indeed, they will at least take
back 70 California knowledge Of row.
ing gained from bitter experience. and IL
they essay another trial at Poughkeepsis.
and there are thousands who wish they
would, they will know more about the
game and they will do better.
~ M records were broken save those for
heat Never since the crews have been
rowing here have they competed on a
hotter day. The heat waves boiled down
on the river from the north, east. south
and west, and when the vast array Of
thirty thousand spectators seethed and
churned its way 10 the observation train,