CHAPTER XXIV.

STRUGGLE AND VICTORY.

On Board the Press Boat--The Harvard Crew--Loring's Condition--Simmons the Pride of the Crew--The Oxford Crew--"Little Corpus," the Coxswain--The Start--Harvard Leads--Burnham's bad Steering--Oxford's Vengeance Stroke--The Last Desperate Struggle--Beaten by Six Seconds--Fair Play and Courtesy, 362