People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1895 — CORNELL BADLY BEATEN. [ARTICLE]

CORNELL BADLY BEATEN.

Finish Eight Lengths Behind th* TrUslty Hall Eight. Henley-on-the-Thames, July 10.—Cornell's (Stances for the Grand Challenge tup were nipped in the bud by the Trtn•ty Hall eight this morning. The English college crew defeated the Americans easily winning in the fair time of i minutes and 15 seconds. When the umpire, Mr. Willan, gave the word, Cornell started at a stroke of 46 to the minute and Trinity at a stroke of 42. The boats were nearly level at the top of the island and Cornell was leading by a few feet at the quarter mile, and gained from this point to the half mile. At Fawley court they were three-quarters of a length in advance. Trinity now began to gain, and at the Bushey Gate only half a length behind. At the mile they had closed up the difference to a quarter of a length, and at the Isthmian boathouse they were a few feet in the lead and still gaining. Just here there appeared to be some confusion in the Cornell boat. The oars flopped woefully out of time, and a moment later the men had stopped rowing. The Trinity men kept on at a pace that had enabled them to overhaul and pass the Cornell boat and crossed the finish line winners in 7 minutes and 15 seconds. The fact seems to be that the Trinity crew ran away from Cornell, and the latter gave up the race. Cornell’s time to the Fawley Court boathouse was 3 minutes and 23 seconds. As the Cornell boat crossed the finish line Fennell tumbled from his seat in a dead faint. Two other members of the crew were badly played out, and the chances of the Cornell colors showing in front again in any of the heats are very slim.