New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-09-08
NETWORK. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1869.

ought not to be asked to make. Richaru H. Dana, In
his charming Vacation Voyage" TO CuOa' relates
how he was warned to eat no fruit during the day
if he had so much as taken milk with hs conee IN
the morning. He who transgressed that RUE dled
Tn nortbern climate he does not die. but he goes in
advance of death through the purgatory Oh dys-
pepsia, or he gets one of those ailments which man
in training ought to avoid Let Simmonss case De
warning. SO with the reckless drinking Oh water
which went OH in the Harvard crew to the very DAY
of the race. II weakened them and lessenea thar
chance. / don't believe in the old theory Oh t0r-
menting men with raging thirst, but Harvard mas
gone to the other extreme. To state such mistakes
is TO indicate one other cause of their defeat
In this overturned, enervated condition they were
made to pull stroke of 40 to the minute. The crew
does not live that could have kept it up steadily
through the hard four miles and three-eghths from
Putney to Mortlake Oxford did not try it, IIey
can pull 40 strokes minute as well as Harvard; nut
they set themselves the task of rowing such stike
as they could row from beginning to end OF the rae
Harvard made q push for the lead at the start aud
got it, and held it CALAMITY for near two miles, 10
the Oxford it seemed that the lead OF the ehuo1
the race would be a better thing to have, and rowing
with that view, the lead at the end fell 10 then.
Each crew had what it sought; but which sought
most wiselvi The contrast between the two crews
in speed of stroke was not striking than In reg
ularity. Harvard rowed all the way from 10 10 10
rOwed sometimes ten strokes mt 46 and fell IN an IL
slant to 40 A partially complete record shows ino@
than 20 changes in % minutes. Oxford rowed neVd
more than 40 unless perhaps on single squirt ana
never less than 49, Its stroke was scarcely changed
perceptibly throughout.
The marvel of marvels was how Harvard, under
all its disadvantages and mistakes, rowed the race
oil nj itso N mupl
them can only repeat it was their superb physique
their endurance itself remarkable when their con
dition is remembered, and beyond ALL their devoted
courage and unconquerable will after all else had
been conquered. am content to adopt the words OF
an English authority have already quoted and say:
ITO have beaten such as these, men whose pluck
could carry them 5000 miles to measure oars with an
English University, whose patience has In detal sur
mounted Innumerable difficulties and dlsappolnt-
ments in bodybuilding, and whose endurance was
almost unparalleled is for oxford Of those happy
triumphs in which there is peculiar honor to the
victor without the smallest particle Of humiliation
for the vanquished"
The time of the race continues to be varlously
given. That stated in many of the papers-22 min.
40, sec by Bensons chTonograph-is certainly
wrong. Others give it at % min II sec, and then IS
sec. 10 sec and 20 Sec Tho time telegraphed you in
sec. taken by myself with Frodsham chronograph,
registering independently iifths Of seconds That Is
confirmed by the record given in The Times, also
taken from n chronograph, and varying but one-iih
of n second from mine. | scarcely know how TO ac
count for the enormous error of twenty seconds in
the press report unless the readingof the hour some
how crcpt into the computation. The actual figures
by Frodsham are Start, oh. l4m 81 2j sec. Finish
5h. SIN. . Sec Actual time, 22m. 90 3-5 sec.
The interest felt in London to know the result
spurred the London press to unwonted efforts News
of Oxfords victory received first az The Echo Of
flee. just before o'clock extra Of The Echo first
announced it to the public, and the same paper
equally in advance in issuing the first detailed r"P't
OF the race. or their extra edition they sold %1OO
copies in three-quarters of hour-a fact probably
unparalleled in English journalism. With great
courtesy The Echo sent its earlist intelligence to the
London Office of The TRIBUNE, and that Is one in-
stance ont of many marking the cordial feeling which
has been shown on the side of the English all
through this international contest, q. W. 5.