New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-12-16
TIE UYIrERSITY ROWING MATCH.
CARD FROM MR.. BLAKE,
To IN. Edttor OF The tribune.

TO the Editor Of The Tribune.
SIR: In your issue of the 10th inst some
members Of the Harvard published a card which
said substantially that the article In the December
Der of Har7ers Monthly relative TO their race, had not
been submitted to them and that never yet had any
thing been written or published or SAID regard to
them that was official.
| wrote that article, and being required 10 have It
ready within very few days after reaching here and
having only spare hours for it, was unable, very much
TO nv regret TO give careful revision Only two OF
the seven members OF the Club who were In England
were then on this sde and letters and three dis
patches failed to bring the address OF one, while
sbould not have had time 10 have forwarded my MS TO
the other had known it even earlier than did Living
constantly aud amicaby with the party supposed that
knew its views and which the card omlt' IN Its quota
ton only hoped express them as the actors themselves
would However most cheerfully assume the entire
responsibility OF this unfair article.
No official statement has ever come from then Then
the long "Interyiew" with their Captain, depgatory
botb IN anotber gentleman who accompanied the crew
and myself, copied into THE TRIBUNE ate III SeFember
from a Boston paper was not theirs lnls, II' SHOWN
ny brief extract from his letter to me aeI lad hye
times tried 10 find him to ask an eNplahaloh NoN. .,
he says: In New-York OF somewhere on steanDoai
was tackled by this unknown reporter ana III bune IVe
minutes answered few questions 10 SATISFY ul9Sly,
AS to what you refer am utterly Ignorant. na can
only hope that have not said what ought MOTTO as
friend of yours IN fact hare no remembrance mem
GoniHg your name 10 him." $50
first proposed, offered TO aid 1t in any way cold ana
my offer seemed 10 be gladly accepted; AmWg the
duties that at up our arrival aDrOu were
those OF secretary The regular Of the ub I'D not
90. Letters constantly DRIVING demanding
answers replied 20 nearly 200 and TO many dlswehes,
and often at the Captains direct request never INT
once did know that anyone else had uQle ~
and never did hear breath OF my having no Isht ~
did not seek tho work, but dropping cohtaH
and most agreeable and remuneratiye empioNneI
offered me by Boston and three leading NeWAort
dailes writing them but three tunes ~ an dd VIVA
came M III was not right | should have been mos
glad To know 1t was often addressed as Secre
tary and word Of objection DID ever hear Ht nov
three months and half after all IS over, Nheh'I u
instance the day before the ~ the direct request
one of the crew wrote to The London Times lettg
which was extensively published on this side, ana slgn
my name, with the title appended, "Secietary OF u,
W11ryard University Boat Club" why did no
some one oIjectl l have even now about al
tho letters ON the general business OF th
crew received in England, to which, OF course
they are welcome II they want them. II caring Tor al
answering these letters did not render me the Secfeta
III question: then not Whether was, ana Wlethe
the late card called for, respectfully submit 10 you
readers. WILLIAM bLAIhlL'
Washington, d. g.. Dec II, 1869.