Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-27
navy VICTOR IN
SENSATIONAL RACE
Six Crews Better Record Made
Last Year by Middies In In.
tercolleglate Regatta
PENN FINISHES LAST

Poughkeepsie, N. T., June 27.--The
Navy, perhaps the greatest eight oar
crew of all time, was the winner Of the
Intercollegiate rowing championship
here yesterday in a race that will live
for all time in the history OF the sport
as one Of the most brilliant and most
spectacular ever rowed.
When the Navy last year won the
varsity eight in IA minutes and z Sec
onds, critics hailed 1t as a mark Of the
men were timed in 13 minutes 33 3-5
seconds.
There was glory aplenty for every
one Of those six crews, for Pennsylva-
MIA, which finished last, far behind the
Navy, as well rs for the great win
ners themselves. It was the fastest
field in all the twenty five regattas held
by the intercollegiate Rowing Associa-
tion since Columbia won the first clas-
sic here in 1895. Every one Of the six
crews beat the fine record set by the
midshipmen in 1921, and the race was
rowed with no great wind and with the
tide still to reach the height OF the
flood.
Just as Washington came home a
finish a length behind the Seattle eight.
Cornell was only ten feet behind the
Orange crew. Then followed Columbia
and Penn.
All Beat Record
When one compares the record made
last year--1i minutes seconds--with
the times turned in by all six crews
yesterday the high caliber Of the field
and the grueling nature of the contest
may be realized fully even II one was
denied a sight Of the glorious struggle.
Washington was timed In ID minutes
80 1-5 seconds; Syracuse in 13 minutes
3S AS seconds; Columbia in 13 min
utes As 1-5 seconds. and Pennsylvania
in 13 minutes 80 3-5 seconds.
The Nays victory marked its second
successive triumph on the Hudson. 1t
had been predicted and was expected on
every side, but the manner in which
victory was won was revelation event
to the stanchest admirers of the Mid
dies and a confusion of their most
ardent critics.
So far as the race was concerned it
was three e-crew affair, with the Navy,
Cornell and Washington as the leading
actors.
That Syracuse came through 20 de-
feat the Cornell eight by a fraction of
a length In the last hundred yards did
nor did It rob Cornell Of the great part
it had played. Columbia and Pennsyl-
vania might just as well as not have
been in the contest at all, such puny
figures were they in the final analyst
and Syracuse, too, was OF minute pro-
portions In the final summing up.
Finish = Spectacular Ono
But 1t was the spectacular fashion
in which Cornell set out to crush the
Navy in the first two miles, and was
In turn overwhelmed by the Middies and
then by Washington.
Then it was the boldness of the
Seattle eight in challenging the Navy
to a duel for the lead, lead hard
earned by the Middies in their struggle
with Cornell, that made the race the
struggle that 1t was.
The powerful thrust that Washing.
ton directed at the ,Middies would have
been enough to defeat any ordinary
crew, but here was a crew that was
far from being ordinary. crew that
turned on it's challenger with squirt
that sent the beat of the stroke ranging
up to forty two to the minute and held
1t there with the grimmcst perseverance
Tor TWO hard fought minutes until the
finish line was safely crossed and Wash
ington was a broken and defeated crew
a length in the ruCk.
1t was that wild spurt which none
but the Navy could make, that terrific
effort in the face Of what seemed to be
inevitable defeat which stamped the
Navy as crew of crews. There have
been great crews on the Hudson before,
but none that has twice rowed down
opposition that seemed insurmountable.
That is what the Navy did with it's
crew of super oarsmen.
Syracuse. on the other hand, fur
nished n couple Of surprises, one of
them being in the victory of it's fresh
man eight, and the other in the fact
that the varsity boat did infinitely better
than its preliminary practice here would
have indicated it was going to do. The
winning freshman crew gives the Orange
bright hopes for next year.
Columbia got a second, a third and
Il fifth out of the bag this time, a little
better than its bitter pill of year
ago. All credit for the showing of
Columbia first year eighA which fur
nishcd all the rowing in the freshman
race for Il greater part of the distance,
belongs to "Fritz' Miller. graduates
from Columbia about ten years ago, and
one of the best starbOard oars the Blue