The Cornell navy : a review . s anything definite known about the crew^, although quartershad been engaged for the race at Saratoga (Springfield having been given up as a place forholding the regatta). Throughout the spring training was continued very much as in the, 14 preceding year, Captain Ostrom acting as coach. At Commencement time the crew left forSaratoga. Here everything seemed to go against them, and what with sickness of two of themembers and inability to take sufficiently long practice spins, they entered the race withouthope of winning. Columbia was first this time, with Wesleyan
The Cornell navy : a review . s anything definite known about the crew^, although quartershad been engaged for the race at Saratoga (Springfield having been given up as a place forholding the regatta). Throughout the spring training was continued very much as in the, 14 preceding year, Captain Ostrom acting as coach. At Commencement time the crew left forSaratoga. Here everything seemed to go against them, and what with sickness of two of themembers and inability to take sufficiently long practice spins, they entered the race withouthope of winning. Columbia was first this time, with Wesleyan second, Harvard third, Wil-liams fourth, and Cornell fifth (nine competitors). In the fall of 74 the Sprague Boat Club was organized to act as a counterbalance,withinthe Navy, of the Tom Hughes Club. A Fall Regatta was held in which a race between thefour class crews was advertised. In this race, when about half of the course had been cov-ered, the 77 boat filled with water and began to sink. The 76 crew, which happened to be. VARSITY 1874 Henderson Ostrom Myers Garver Corwin King Southard Clark nearest tc them, stopped rowing and w^ent to their assistance, thus putting two crew^s out ofthe race. Then the 75 crew, after gaining a clear lead of twelve lengths, started to sink justbefore reaching the line and it prow^ w^as hurriedly turned tow^ard the shore. Thus the 78crew^, w^hich w^ould have been last under normal conditions, actually won the race, and that,too, w^hen their bow^ oarsman had broken his oar within the first half mile and had partici-pated in the race only as a spectator. Nothing discouraged by previous defeats, John Ostrom, the Old Man of the early days,set the men vigorously to v^rork on the two machines in the gymnasium through the winter of74-75 (the machines consisted of sliding or greased seat, rope through pulley in floorand ceiling and weight in the cellar) and at the breaking up of the ice candidates w^ere setto rowing in the Inlet, until in April a crew
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