The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-10
Our Lake Winncpiscogee Correspondence.
LAKE. WINNEPIsEoGEE, Aug. 3, 1852 :
The Collegiate Regatta-Struggle bet,ceen old Yale
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LAKE WINNEPIsEoGEE, Aug. 3, 1852
The Collegiate Regatta-Struggle be,ceen old Yale
and Harrard-The Excitement.
This quiet place Of summer resort is now full of
life and excitement. The boat clubs Of Yale and
Harvard college having regatta here, and
enter into the sport with ardor and enthusiasm
There are four boats-three with eight oars, and the
Atlanta of four-all of beautiful model and furni-
ture Their crews are picked men, and ranging
from eighteen to twenty years of age-s'ther souls
on fire, and eager for the fray The challenge
came from the ssHarvard boys and was promptly
accepted by the second party. This is the first
regetta that these clubs have ever participated in;
and, although little green, they make up in energy
what they lack in skill. At an early hour, the
country people focked in, and the street was lined
with Carriages, and every steamer landed fresh
crowds Of friends and spectators. And whom the
boats were
- on the start lust
Like about to break
That on the curl hangs pausing,
they made splendid picture. The shores were lined
with eager crowd-farmers with their sweet
hearts, friends and relatives of the crews and here
and there a pretty head, with its ambuscade of
millinery, reached little from the crowd, to dis
cover brother or beau amongst the boatmen.
There was a pleasant breeze stirring, and where
the gun struck the lake it looked like bed of dia-
mounds. The back ground was formed Of mountains,
which reared their eafy ramparts to the skies and
across which the clouds swept their darkening
shades. Steamers, horse boats, and snowy calls
lay to or tackled across the bay, black with the
crowds that loaded them. The borders Of the lake,
where the crowd did not stand, was an unbroken
forest, the trees bending solemnly over the water,
and darksning it. In front Of you is the island for
which they make, resting lightly on the bosom Of
the lake And here, with every eye upon them,
lay the boats the Oneida, vermillion, its rowers
in white the tiny Atlanta, black hull, and crew
in blue New York boat, white hull, and crew in
red black boat, with crew in white all their
bright colors conspicuous in the sunlight, and their
dripping oars cleaning like Damascus blades.
Slowly they back into line: their prows are sighted;
bugle sounds-it is five minutes before the next
one Expectation is on tiptoe Again the buge
sounds. Then, in volley, the oars Of all
strike the .row-locks. and the boats cieave
waves in two broad waves from their prows.
The bodies of the rowers incline and raise
with well drilled accuracy. Now the Shawmut, now
the undine gains little, and now the little At
lanta shoots like water spider past the leader but
with steady, long sweeping stride, comes the Onei-
da--a little behind at starting, she now gains six
inches in every pull, and moving like thing Of life
The sidelong gances Of her rival crew and their
firm lips show their wills But the island is too near,
and the pull has been toe long The Oneida gancing
ahead at every stroke, gains by half length, and
her oars are apeak second afterward. II was
gallant race, and all bore themselves well. They
return to the mainland, the victor foremost, and as
they near the shore, the manly voices of their cap.
tains give the crest, ""peak," and "lctfa aboard;
the crowd raises o hearty cheer and the fair ones
wave their handkerchief, while the deep melody Of
the band reaches over ALL and comes softly and elo
quently over the rock bound lake. n. H.
CENTRE HARBoR, August 3, 1852
Anolher account ofhc 1atch-Harrard Ahcad-
The Scenery and The Cro,ods.
II may, perhaps, be agreeable to some of your
readers who have been burying themselves in the
political correspondence for the last six months, to
give hasty glance at some other scenes that are