The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-27

year, though very remarkable and praiseworthy
was not without at least one precedent that of
the Freshmen crew in the year 1866, of which
Mr. Loring was stroke and Mr.. Simmons third
The coloTs are a prominent feature of the Har-
ward organization. Distinctively red is the Har-
ward color, though modified according to the
fancy of the several classes, by the adoption of
the shades of cherry, scarlet, magenta, etc. The
University six invariably assume the magenta
shade and this is in fact regarded par excellence
the college color. The attempt to have observed
rigid adherence by classes to special shades,
quite popular q few years since, has relaxed
somewhat At present, however, the seniors
recognize cherry. the Juniors magenta, and the
sOphomOres scarlet.
The Picked Crew.
The international ere W. sailed from New York
in the City or Paris on the 10th of July For
five weeks previous they tabled together on
prescribed, though not n severe diet; and to pro-
vide against the risk of the admiXture of any
thing deleterious in their food whether by acci-
dent or design, they took a cook with them,
While sojourning at the Astor House, they
received n telegram from England stating the
betting was then even. A little time previous
500 against so was offered by many on Oxford,
but the recent successive victories of the Har-
wards Zone last May, in which they beat George
Law; another on the Fourth of July. in which
they easily outstripped the Hamill crew, and
the last one with George Law, when they came
in between thirty and forty seconds ahead) had
this perceptible influence ,,, on the. Eng
lish betting mind. These victories
were not without their effect on the
Harvard men, and they sailed away hopeful and
determined. They claimed they had not yet
put forth their best endeavors, but stated Ok
ford should have the full weight of their boarded
strength. While under training they abstained
from salt meats, fowls. "cakes and ale," cigars,
all liquors, and delicacies, and retired at half
past nine, believing that the end in view justi-
fed the rigorous means imposed. The Oarsmen
are all picked men, and will do honor to their
country, however the race may result Alden
Porter Loring, captain OF the crew and bow
oar, held the position OF stroke oar at the Uni
Versity regatta last summer, when the unpre-
cedented time of II minutes 49, seconds was
made, over the three-mile course of Lake
Quinsigamond. He is of the senior, or gradua-
ting class OF the present year, and is a resident
of Boston. His age is % years, and his training
weight is 1913 pounds. From his position in the
bow he can at once with his practced eye detect
the slightest irregularity in the rowing of any
man. The English Captain, in order TO coach"
his crew. deems it necessary to leave the boat,
and view and correct their motions while on
horseback on the bank. The advantages of Mr..
Lorings plan are sufficiently obvious to
any one experienced in rowing. He is of
Il hgh-strung, delicate organization, of
elegant action and great staying" powers
when he is all right. lie pulled number five IN
the University crew of 1866. This was his
Freshman year, and he held the position of
stroke in the class crew of the same year. In the
y
was stroke oar. competent critic says of him:
-"Of q temperament like a hot-blooded Moor,
whom he somewhat resembles, he knows how to
use all that is in him to better advantage to our
eve, than any Oarsman on this continent. Free,
like all his men, from every sort of dissipation,
| he is a man in ten thousand for such position
| as he now holds, and every man in Harvard may
| well be proud of such a splendid representative
| of his alma mater in the contest in which he is
now about to engage" His official position in
| the crew insures him celebrity and a recOgni-
tion to which encomium can add nothing.
William Hammatt Simmons, of Concord,
| Mass, is a member of the Senior Glass. He has
rowed almost daily during good weather ever
| since he entered college, pulling number three
| in the Freshmen Crew, which beat all the other
| class boats in 1866 that were willing 20 try
| them; number two in the University six in 1867
| winning both the Boston city regatta on July 4
| of that year and the college race at Worcester;
| and number three in the University six in 1863
| which was defeated twice by the champion pro-
fessionals of the country, the Ward brothers, but
| easily beat a strong st. John party, all the
| best New England crews, and the Yale men of
| that year. This year he was appointed stroke
| and captain of the club, but he freely resigned
| the former position in iayoro Mr.. Loring, when
he consented to row in the four to go to Eng
land. He stands but half an inch under six
feet is more than two inches larger round the
chest than Walter Brown, the champion
single sculler, and weighs, in winter, about 100
| pounds, and in summer, when trained very
fine, no pounds stripped, or about seven
teen pounds more than Brown. He is
safely a fifteen per cent. stronger oars
man than any other who ever rOwed In the
Harvard boat. and is a man of most manly car
riage and fine presence. He is a Hercules il
strength. Indeed, it is reported that IT is diff
cult to provide him with an oar which does 10, no
soon snap by good, honest pulling. Thougl
quite heavy, he is as easy and nancy III III III
movements as a much smaller person, being en-
tirely free from all the usual logyness attending
a heavy man. 1t is an interesting circumstance
in connection with the proposed friendly contes
between the athletes of the chief literary lnstltu
tIons of each country, that ''our Hercules" as n
has been termed, has his home in the identica
cold Manse" which the genius OF Hawthorne ha
made familiar wherever English literature !
read. Az Mir. LOrlng is the only man who eve