Show JUST AN AEOLOGY THAT WASALL Yesterdays Races a Great Disappointment Dis-appointment CONDITIONS WERE fJOT FAVORABLE CORN TITBITS OUT TO BE A EASY WIOTTEB la Some Respects the Contest Was Pitiful There Was Virtually No Bace After the Second Mie Pennsylvania Beturned Before the Second rile Was Beached With n Boat Full of WaterWoods Thompson Fight a Draw Jw Poughkeepsie N Y July 2All Of he expectations of lovers of American sports that by establishing new records the Pennsylvania and Columbia crews would be entitled to demand admission admis-sion to what promises to be an intercollegiate inter-collegiate rowing combination of three colleges Yale Harvard and Cornell have been rudely shattered The contest con-test on the Hudson this afternoon which had been heralded as promising close and exciting finish and which each college coach declared would be a record breaking contest turned out recor brelkng to be the merest sort of a procession and an apology for a race I IB true that the water conditions wer not favorable to fast time and that men like Walter Peet and other boating boat-Ing experts alleged that it was not a proper time to start 3 race but it is also true that once having started the chances were certainly equal for each crew cewTe lirMest crew on the river and the one less likely to be able to stand the swells caused by the wind blowing against the tide came out of the ton test an easy winner and only slightly behind the record of Yale last week when Fhe finished second in the varsity var-sity race with all the conditions In her 4t sly rce wih al favor The heaviest crew in the race today Pennsylvania found its boat washed full of water before the second mile was reached and after passing that point was compelled to retire from the contest The next heaviest crew Columbia bravely heralded as a rough water crew was so fearful of results from the same cause that i lost many lengths steering Inshore la some respects the contest was pltl < uT Cornell the winner of the two previous contests the victors over Yale and Harvard had been led to believe that Pennsylvania and Columbia would nut up a harder fight than her con tixstiTits in the other races On the onrary t the Cornell crew rowed over the curre in the easiest kind of fashion fash-ion only hotting up the stroke in the last threequarters of 3 mile in an evident evi-dent endeavor to make fair time Columbia Co-lumbia strucsled in the rear losing length by length while rowing a much qvVker stroke than Cornell and finally fin-ally after crossing the line her crew t unrl themselves almost incapable of ar further work V if to exhibit her prowess and her wonderfully husbanded strength the Cornell cor waln turned his boat arund and rowed uV a mile and a quarter above the finish to salute deft de-ft atec1 PennsyUama and then returned to the boathouse There was really no 3 act to describe at least not after the second mile Daring the first three quarter < f a mile the contest was rather pretty Pennsylvania took the wate first Columbia with a qukk jnky stroke following and Cornell hanging to the rtar firWith tar slow measured 3 at the ouarier of p PersyK ttula a lead < i f onehalf iersrth over Columba and Iolurobta oneuaf a length over Cornell Cor-nell Pennsylvania t as hoer splashing splash-ing bauly At the half mile Pennsjl tania was mvir a U and Columbia a l T hile Cirul with her o2 stroke was decree a he I Jptd At the three uuraters of a mile Pennsylvania had Jf lengtn still oer thre quarters < > a stl C > ttSll who had pulled on beyond Columbia for about half a length It V as here twt the trouble seemed to biffin in ih I Pennsylvania boat Just lrL1r to th starting of the rare the s irer T i i r 01 the Albany and V ° v i oursr 1fl < am down the river as > r th boats tr ined up and although v aired by The referee and the police bat woull no sop > The shells that E e riadf PT > ion baxk by the s uth win and the local referee Harris f uejno1 Ftaf > J the crews while th swells vcrf running though Coach j Ward r > i Pv nn > ylvania i protested against sarin When or lre boat I 1 ct ih > eutMJe hit them tlcy were long j B ells and the harp boat cut them in I two < ouvpfins ibeni Into a choppy I sPa so that u hen they ht Pennsvli I iiriia she1 they unshed over the side then Cornells < ernesa vas In evi U nee for wh I beautiful form of1 that crew kEpt the oars from touching thor sweii dait the feather the Pennsylvania > arm > n hit them with I f much fcrr as to t row part of them into the baBy ba-By the time the crevs had reached the mile and a quartr the Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania boat was lumbering along filled almost to the gunwales but the men i continued to bravely pull although falling far behind Columbia who in falng I row 122 in short to avoId the swells had lost considerable distance to Cornell Cor-nell From the mile and a half down nEI i the most ludicrous procession began I I Cornells boat went along against tFe < head wind as if i bad wings while i I C > iumbas crew pulled along violently I V J ting nearly a length in every quarter of a mile Pennsylvania splashed and I I fussed along slowlY goinR to the rear i 1 until the two miles and a quarter point I i was reached when Coruh Ward came around in the Franklin and took the i ret aboard From that time on ttoe I lace practically lost ItO interest to the I uusnds of spectators ato g the shore I j Co jells rowing carried the boat along at an excellent pace although the j shell had taken in some water while j Coumbia rowing at 3 but with In dnmitabe pluck struggled along to I atth Tier with a pertinacity that was exasperating The CorneHlans drew I ova > fom rte Columbia boat until at there was at least ten boat the brl ge therf wa I Jirgths between them I was here I that the Columbia crew made a desperate j des-perate effort to spurt but Cornell per j i elved i and without evidently In reusing the stroke put a little more j t back leg work In and carried her boat I another length and a half ahead of tie waite and blue crossing the line winner an easy w To the pitiable fizzle of the afternoon btre was a bright side and that was the true American sportsmanship j spirit displayed by Cornell On the referees boat just after PennsylvanIa I Penn-sylvanIa w As swamped Professor i Wheeler of Cornell turned to James j i Bjna of Pennsylvania and said I L ilr Bond on behalf of Cornell uni j ersity I desire to say that Cornells eight will row Pennsylvania tomorrow if you H icept the offer I Mr Bpml replied that it was a very courteous thing tovdo4j > ut on Behalf of Pennsylvania lie would have to decline de-cline to accept th < offer and that i would be unsportsmanlike for Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania to allow the Cornell crew to Q U 0 i < I days race for the third J time within eight |