sed and Yale had won!
I tell you, Creighton, that fellow is all sand--every bit of him."

"That's what he is," nodded Creighton. "He is running over with the true
Yale spirit. I tell you, my boy, Old Yale bears mighty men! Come, let's
kill this bottle of fizz, which I got off the ice expressly for
Merriwell, confound him!"

Then they lost little time in opening the bottle and swallowing its
sparkling contents.

Bob Collingwood was overwhelmed with congratulations. He said very
little before the crowd, but to a particular friend he declared:

"It is one of the marvels of the year that we won to-day. Harvard
outrowed us for fully three-quarters of the course, and she would have
finished in the lead if her crew had been as stocky as ours. Their
stroke is easier on a man than ours."

"Then you acknowledge at last that the Oxford stroke is superior to the
American?" eagerly questioned the friend.

"I have acknowledged nothing yet, but I fear I'll be forced to."

The jubilant fellows were making the boathouse ring with songs of
victory. About twenty flushed lads were roaring:

"How can they ever beat us--
How can they beat Old Yale?
We down 'em when they meet us,
You bet we never fail!
We've got 'em so they fear us
In every contest fair;
And soon they'll not come near us,
Because they will not dare.

CHORUS: "Then give us a cheer for Old Eli--
A cheer for our gallant crew;
She has won, and she wins forever,
With her noble boys in blue.

"Poor Harvard falls before us,
She is not in the game;
So swell the merry chorus,
Old Eli's won again!
It was a gallant battle,
My boys who wear the blue;
But you they cannot rattle,
No matter what they do."

There were other songs, and in the midst of all this rejoicing a crowd
of pretty girls, accompanied by chaperons, came into the boathouse.

Among them was Winnie Lee, who lost no time in finding Frank and
congratulating him.

"I knew you would win, Frank--I knew you would!" she exclaimed, her
bright eyes sparkling.

"Why, you are talking as if I rowed the whole race!" he said, laughing
and blushing.

"Well, I'm sure they'd never won without you," she declared.

"That's like a girl! Of course Yale would have won anyhow! How can they
beat us?"

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