Outing . they suffered defeat one conversant with the facts inthe case can doubt that this race wasthrown by the man who fainted, or pre-tended to faint. In 82 a crew was sentto the intercollegiate regatta at LakeGeorge. Defeat was their fate, as, aftertrying in vain to get races with Toronto,Pennsylvania, Columbia and one or twoothers, training was stopped. Threeweeks before the race it was resumedwith two entirely green men in the were unable to use a four-oaredshell till two weeks before the the circumstances the record madewas satisfactory, although the college
Outing . they suffered defeat one conversant with the facts inthe case can doubt that this race wasthrown by the man who fainted, or pre-tended to faint. In 82 a crew was sentto the intercollegiate regatta at LakeGeorge. Defeat was their fate, as, aftertrying in vain to get races with Toronto,Pennsylvania, Columbia and one or twoothers, training was stopped. Threeweeks before the race it was resumedwith two entirely green men in the were unable to use a four-oaredshell till two weeks before the the circumstances the record madewas satisfactory, although the college didnot win. In 83 Cornell beat Princeton,University of Pennsylvania and Wesley-an, winning by seven lengths. ^ The rec-ord of Princeton had been that year thewinning of the Newark and Harlem re-gattas, defeating the Mutuals, of Albany,and the Columbia College crew. TheUniversity of Pennsylvania had beatenthe Crescents over the Centennial Re-gatta course on the Schuylkill, in the ATHLETICS AT CORNELL. 457. THE NEW GYMNASIUM. fastest time ever made over it up to thatdate. This victory was followed by overcon-fidence, and in 84 the crew was beatentwice, both times by the University ofPennsylvania, once at Philadelphia andagain at Saratoga. In 85 Cornell wonthe Childs cup for the first time. In theintercollegiate race on Lake Quinsiga-mond, Cornell finished first, but was de-clared guilty of a foul and the poorestcrews, Bowdoin and Brown, were allowedto row the race over. In 86 no crew wassent out, but Rowland, a single sculler,won the junior smgle-scull race in theNational Regatta at Albany. In 87 Cor-nell won the junior four at Newark byten lengths, won the intercollegiate atWorcester, beating Bowdoin, a crew witha record of in lake water, and wentto Philadelphia twice to row University ofPennsylvania for the Childs cup. Thecup was forfeited by the University ofPennsylvania, to whom it had gone theyear before on account of Cornells notsending a crew to compete for it. In 88
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