New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-06-27
Quskers Realize Their Power.

Coming down to the shadows Of their
own boathouse, the Quakers began to
realize with more force than ever be-
fore the efact that they were not only
in the race but that they were eforcing
the much vaunted Cornell crew TO row
its hardest. And just 20 show how fresh
they really were the Quakers shot the
beat up to "a and swept into a lead Of
q quarter of length at the two and
half mile mark.
Cornell was taken by surprise on one
side and confronted with another
equally as stunning on the other side
when Columbia raised the beat for q
lusty "ten" and shot into second place.
Madly the Cornell giants set to the
task which had been instilled into
their minds. And as the lowered
bridge doomed up in all its black i'm
pressiveness the Ithacsns madt their
bid. But il was a bid which was an
swered with one a little higher.
Where so many crews had found the
Cornell steel too strong in the past
this Cornell crew found the steel of
Pennsylvania and Columbia tempered
just as finely, il, indeed, not a little
more finely. There, then, in the shad-
ows of that great monument to the
strength or weakness Of the crews that
pass under 10 Cornell began to slip
back. Pennsylvania, still driving along
with that that maddening 80 to the
minute, kept forcing the pace, while
Columbia, with a beat that was going
higher now with each succeeding min
ute, hung on grimly.
Spransy, IN one last heroic effort,
raised the Cornell stroke TO 80, and as
he did so Mccarthy raised Columbia's
to 50. Spransy tried another notch,
and Mccarthy did the same, and all
the time Columbia was rowing along
confident in the knowledge that at last
IL was to triumph over Cornell in de-
eisive and elear-eut fashion.
Each stroke made that more appar-
ent, and there seemed no limit 10 the
reserve strength Of the Blue and
White boat load about which so much
has been written of its lack Of ability
20 stay four miles. Four miles-forty
miles perhaps would have been nearer
the mark, for the men fairly tore
along through that fourth mile.
A three and one-half miles Columbia
began to put on the touches that were
10 make its victory complete.
Pennsylvania had rowed its race, and
there was no power IN the quaker sneli
10 Offset he terrific burst Of speed that
Columbia uncovered for the final ehal-
lenge. IL was just three-eighths Of a
mile from the finish when the Columbia
bow Tapped the bow Of the Pennsyl-
Vania boat for the last time. From
that point on the race was Columbia's.
The closer 10 the finish the Blue and
White crew rowed the stronger il
seemed 10 be. Pennsylvania did not
weaken an iota, but it could not cope
with that pent up energy in the Co
lumbia boat.
Then il came 20 the thousands on
train and yachts and shore why II
was that Columbia had rowed so con-
servatively in the early miles. Each
succeeding stroke saw the Columbia
men unloose more power until in the
last dash they were fairly flying over
the water.
As the Columbia flag fell the din
which filed the whole river became
one loud shrek, as human lungs We'd
with steam and brass in g wild out
burst 10 do homage TO the victor.
But the race was not over for the
others. Cornell, beaten back By CO.
lumbia st the bridge. revived under