Show cOLE COLLEGE OARSMEN CONTEND FOR ATHLETIC SUPREMACY Drenching Rain Dampens the Ardor of Admirers of Aquatic Sports at the Poughkeepsie Course J BULLETIN 0 ItI f POUGHKEEPSIE N. N Y June 21 Cornell wins varsity race POUGHKEEPSIE N. N Y T. June 21 1 I AI A drenching rain and a a. nasty gray sky without a single riffle rime In it to justify the hope of clearing greeted the weather 1 1 er sharps sharps' this morning when theY looked out to see what the indications 1 n J 1 were for today's boat race The early earli morning rai rain had a depressing 1 k kence ence and up to the middle of the forel fore forenoon noon there thereas was as the smallest gathering in of spectators ever seen In n Poughkeepsie sie sic on a a. similar occasion There was was was' little or no Wind ind and the course was t. perfectly smooth The Betting For the freshmen eight Wisconsin J was this thin morning a decided favorite and even Cornell backers who are generally generally gen gen- emIly quick to tal take e bets especIally when odds are offered were asking fo for 2 to 1 with Wisconsin the favorite In the varsity Cornell is a strong favorite favorit and although in some cases the was offered against Cornell at a good good advantage there were few takers Th The lony only wager of any importance laid was i ione one o of 1000 O by Pennsylvania ns i adherents er r that t to their varsity r i crew would l beat Georgetown the Georgetown adherents taking it at the odds of 2 to 1 Coach Courtney of the Cornell crew t said this morning that while he consid i ered his varsity crew very fit he did diet not share any outside predictions of j sure r victory 0 He thought it was going 1 yH cf eg to be a very hard fought race and would not be won until toward the end t of the last m le He talked this to his f. f it men preferring that they should go out I with the feeling that they would have to row the race for all aU they were worth II IINo No Wo Money on Columbia Curiously enough although there are I I Ia a good many Columbia college people here there is little if any money being J. J placed on Columbia to win In a. a pool made last night on the varsity race in l I which Cornell sold for 9 Wisconsin for 7 7 and Pennsylvania for 5 Colum f Colum bia bla sold for 1 This is strange in of the fact that Coach Hanlon has has' talked very favorably of his men arll believes they will make a great hoig ing The Th unknown factor in the race 1 J Jl i l G Georgetown Its varsity crew S uY over the rp ThI m n course and the general among t the e rowing sharps is th that t she will be very formidable for th thY thy miles she she will not be able to kep keap th pace to the finish Syracuse does so not J seem to figure in the before the rac race J predictions and Pennsylvania whose i crews have always made a big showing I 1 and on several occasions have won on fi c t this is course ourse is also getting setting very little consideration among those thom who are J picking winners c o Nasty Wind Shows Toward Toward II 10 o'clock while there was no abatement o of the rain there came up upa a nasty wind from the south It blew I straight up the course and even with the flood tide kicked up quite a swell portending that when the tide ebbed if the wind continued to blow from the south there would be such conditions that the race could not be rowed As As the day advanced the wind increased and stayed in the same general tion from the south but the indications indica- indica toward 11 o'clock were that It It might get around to the west I |