The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-06-22
COME FROM BEHIND
WITH MIGHTY PULL
AND CAPTURE RACE
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freshman eight after hard race. It
looked like field day for Charles
Courtney, but tonight the Syracuse
war cry Is resounding along the pal
lisades. The spell of the wizard of
the Hudson was broken for a few min
utes at least. The final drive Of the
Syracuse boys is something to rcmcin-
Der and talk about. There is no mad
furry TO n close boat race finish II is
long drawn-out thrill that chokes
the cheers in the throat and reduces
one TO awed silence rs the boats creep
snakelilSe 10 the mark. And even after
II Is all over one has to pause and
locate ones breath before starting a
yell. That's the kind of a finish they
had to-day in that las race
AS most everybody rather bromidi-
cally remarked. ii was an ideal day
and an ideal race. the combinations
being the boating fans general idea
{ OF heaven. The sky was as clear as
a bell and the river was as smooth as
oil. Also. there was large crowd
/ Mr.. Courtney's hitherto copyrighted re-
/ gatta is, by and large, the most varied
and various affair OF the kind that
takes place anywhere in the country
/ II is true that Yale and Harvard and
4 Princeton do not compete against Mr.
Courtney, but there is very good
reason. Yale and Harvard and Prince
ton are rather exclusive when il comes
/ TO being defeated at anything, and they
don't care about having IL happen 10
( them with such publicity as necessa-
/ rily attends the Courtney way
Historians say that both Yale and
Harvard came here years ago. but
, found such a lack of nourishment that
they went back TO picking on each
other while Princeton has even been
regarded more as carniverous col
I !eGe. rather than m
| Institution.
| Notwithstanding the withdrawal of
the patronage of the very upper crust
OF colle;:dom. Mr.. Courtney does very
we'll The regatta to-day attracted
about 145 partially nude young men,
which is considered quite showing IN
deed
Poughkeepsie is by nature and habit
peaceful community, but once year
1t gives itself up to an aqueous riot
on land and river. although the aqua
Is much more noticeable on the river
than On terra firma. They have been
holding boat races hereabouts since
1895 except in 1885, when the inter
collegiate ro@ing conflicts took place
at Saratoga.
Besides boat races. the chief product
of Poughkeepse is the Vassar gradu-
ate. known far and wide throughout
the United States. Unfortunately.
enough OF these graduates are mot in
evidence to any disGuietins. extent
during the boat races. rs the college Is
closed for the summer and few If any
graduates can be prevailed upon to
remain in Poughkeepsie over the heat
ed term.
1t Is estimated that some 10000 peo-
pie nadn the journey from New York
alone to-day. while thousands OF
others came Fl om Syracuse, Ithaca and
other State points
Prices Under Control.
Long experience with the festive fol-
lowers of aquatic sports has taught the
residents OF Poughkeepsie several
things. One is that a regatta is pro-
ductive of much transient money, and
that there are many ways of getting
same. 1t must be said for Pough-
keepsie, however. that 1t keeps it's
prices under fairly good control even
IN its moments of greatest excitement.
| AS showing you to what extent wis
dom carries In Poughkeepsie. we otto
the fact that the bar mt the Nelson
House closed as soon as the crowd
departed for the river and remained
closed the rest of the day. This curl
Gus and revolutionary custom can be
traced back to some remote year that
Columbia won race hereabouts, which
was long before Charles t. Courtney
got his teeth firmly fixed in this re-
gatta.
Anchored out in the stream during
the race were number Of the big
! excursion boats that cruise between