Year: 1874

YALE's CLAIM OF FOUL-HARvARD AND COLUMBIA


CHARGED WITH RUNNING ACROSS YALE's BOWS
THE REFEREES DECISIONS DESoUNcED.


To me RAZOR Of THe Trt6Une.


SIR: 1t was great disappointment to boat


ing men that Yale should he been disabled in the
Nj Cook whose uutrug devotion t. the noble science
ana ne appearance in the boat endearJ him to every
oarsman was to pat his theories OF rowing the test Of
eight competitors, all llc different from each other,
aud far removed from his style can well be
imagined His the only well thought out and eX-
pIanabe stroke the lake, and by 1t hc claimed that
lie could the at thirty strokes to tie minute,
while the other boats running up to forty and
Judge then of the disgust hearing from the other
crews that while leading comfortably the second mile
the Yale TuddeT mad been broken by Harvard and
the Yale bow snapped al the Oar-lock. Yale had
not yet spurted. and and had been rowing only
thirty or thirtytwo.


That this was an unmstakable case of fouins plain
70 any one examining the Yale boat. Tle rudder is
broken from the lower staple carrying with it portion
Of the keel and scratches such the brass tip OF
oar makes visible at Intervals along the hull These
gashes from aft forward and tell that the coldiug
boat passed from aft forward that is, overhaued
ran the Yale boat. All agreed that Cook imm-
diaely stopped rowing whom his raider smashed
by BacOns Nothing could be clearer than this foul
To himself Goodwin amid the broad OF the
rest OF bis drew up to the judges stand after the
race aud put in claim OF foul against Yale


The origin Of al this trouble lies well back. There
has been much gossip of a dangerous character about
the lake for tue last weeks The Harvard ap
peared convinced that Yale aud Wesleyan had formed
coalition, agreeing 10 hamper or foul Harvard aud
Columbia on the race. Why Harvard aad Columbia
should fraternze lies s further back the petty
weaknesses OF humanity Young men take and show
local quicker than any other class. Columbia
believes in fashionable NcwYOrk Harvard believes III
Boston, fashionable NewYork believes in Boston. while
Boston-beleves in itself But the last necessary
TO the cham OF reasoning the three explain the
delicate bond Of sympathy between the two colleges
Before the race Harvard began to whisper their
Not that Cook has foued ockeyed race, but
him capable OF the worst villainies OF Empire City
Tegattas. Here then Is the secret OF the foullng
Harvard and Columbia must have come to an
agreement TO forcstali plot which probably
never dreamed OF, ana therefore simultaneously
executed that common feat of winch consists
m running the bows of they most fear
tain that Harvard and Columbia served in this way
Yale and Wesleyan respectively at the very start From
what is known OF the NewYork and Boston men It is
hardly TO be supposed they would have so done unless
they had worked themselves up to state OF firm belief
In "A cOuuterplo The result for Wesleyan was only
good deal botnerug the part Of Columbia for Yale
something very different. Unlike Wesleyan, Yale passed
Harvard and was signaled leading at the mile ana
half Here Cook could not refrain from talking Dana.
the Harvard stroke. Rowing 80 TO the minute he un-
luckily had plenty OF breath which he used assure
Dana aat be could not hope 10 win Some words passed