, 1873-07-20

msae gallant ,stFaggo Thoy ,vSs TS5s
and thon. wont baek to ,celumbi". Tho
Now York by tholr pluck and endurance. Na-
pAo, before tho raco tnorous ct his auaeSas t. IN
rowol valiantly. Moore steoroa perfectly; Bur
rounded by Dowdoin, Dartmouth, Cornell, not a
littlo skill was required 70 avoid foul, and not
tS sk was 3snea DROPPED p y g TGnt bx
Williams, whoao crew llavo loat their handkor-
chiefs and evidently nro rowing with psasoi-
gor the substitute, wlioso place n tho boat is
duo to necessity, t8 lttto moro. Tho bow iB cnl-
barnaaod in hosping true conrso. and splash,
Bplasl1, goos tho wnter from tho pnBBougors oar.
Now they aro 30 far by that the ttarltneSB, which
sGs st @ S5os91 wan o 30 sqR2G Ra o ssd tho # the
faco Of tho water and tho loss by somo Of tho
crowa Of tloir distinguishing insignia TINT tho
group loaoB them: It scuttles down hotter slol-
Tor to tho Mothodist Episcopal quarters two fur
1ooking tho river. Tho boata nro Divided into
throo groupB, tho lending ono consisting Of four,
tho next Of five, and tho last Of two. Harvard
-boaring those crimson caps still In tho van
| Ia frat. Ynlo, who las boon creeping up With
that English stroke, IL second, and only second
by threo-quartors Of longth.. Wesleyan
i stu thir and stu preaseaa y by hnnsg1 aa
Cornell, Dartmouth, Columbia, md tho
Aggien, In tho order montioued Z; tho last,
Of Trinity and Williams. Tho first group is IN
tho contro OF tho stream, tho sccona to tho east
Of them, aud the Inst in tho immediate rear Of
tho first. Lines connecting tho throe would Do
scribe triangle, with Cornell Mt at tho obtuso
anglo. Harvard is still et tho apex as they
awoop swiftly, by tlio Wesleyan quarters. but
that quiot!y-throatened squirt Of Yalo. It ia
giyon with will cheer from every throat OIL
tho bank, regardless of preference. showed hoT
Es rae It me4 mne Gf rss rsss" ,s @F' III os he
boys iu bluo!" shouted ovory pair Of lungs.
IInryard'a long lead has oulol. Yalo'a noso
ia ahoad. Another epnrt ls made, this
time by Anll.orst. Gradually the boys
laps tho Dlothodists' r11ddor. Slowly-it seems
an ago to those on the bank, What must 1t soenl
to tloso in tho boats ?-tho boats creep ahead.
behind Columbia, and tho Aggiea close up |. T.
oning, forwards aud backwards, like sixty-aix
macllinca-in reality aixty-Bx muscular young
ground; fears, apxietieH, joys, eorrowv, mem:
ories-famo to bo won or lost; thousand
thoughts rushing upon thom and sending quiy-
cring lfo into their .nrns so tlcy 60 out Of
sight behind tho sandy point on the eastern bank
Of tho river.
At THE F1NIBI.
As they caro on it was moro and more nppar-
ent TINT Harvard lad tho lead. but what tho
1
roar aud to the westward Of Harvard was no!t to
her WAS still mystory. On they came, and tho
Harvard boat undor tho eastern shoro shot out
suddenly to Its full length, and Harvard seemed
an casy and certain winner. Pretty pulling
had been dono iu practice by the Howard crow,
but nothing to DO compared to this for the life
aud swing Of the stroko. Not man was out OF
form, and tho atcady thirty eight which Dana vas
il they had just started on tho race natoad Of
being at tho end OF it. But just now drew stead
lily from tue cluster Of hnahes bohind Harvard
ono boa, what crew could not be told from horc,
yard nnd thoy wore pulling stroke even longer,
stronger, and moro uniform than the stroke OF
the Aggies. It can hardly bo Cornell. It IN cor
tainly not tho Aggiea. Who can 1t bo 2 DofoIo
srolta has been raing to forty, md It'll squirting
up toward Harvard. a few STROKES moro and it
, has forced Harvard up to forty, and ia moving
to forty as we'll Tho boats shoot on & under a tne
shoot tho gain Of the hiudmost becomes plainor.
At last they ara sldo and aide, aud for ten
strokes, for which every man in either
tie two shoot on together, and now. they come
into tho clearer light. Within furlong Of the
! flniah it was mado out beyond dispute that the
J newcomers wore tho blue handkerchiofs Of Yale.
: Then what yoll from Yalo md what a shout
J from Harvard on The ahorc All the time during
I which the Outsiders have como in to row and
take prizes is forgotten, and it ia one Of te od m
nntchos Of Qains'gan,ona. ~ mYale! Yale Yale ., J.
, power tells, and thu stcadior stroke tolls, and
Yalo draws away, and draws clear; And
, thon everybody tumbes towards tho fin,
j. in timo to 500 Yalo lending tho sec.
ond boat clear length and como in winner,
while tho second and third boats we're almoss
togother, Harvard d trife behind. What the
It ia only inst now officially decided to have beau
! tho Wesleyan. But what limo there vas when
! Yalo wont over! how many year; Is il since
Yale won a race from HaIsardf AL those years
, wore avenged to tho Yalo mon who saw thet
finish How thoy yelled aud how they danced
air, aud when he alightea turned upon his no1t
Yaio neighhor with Kiss mo u And this sall1,
} tation was serio ,sly made, and then, without
wagon and for Springfield.
Tonight Springfield il in Wild state. somo-
body who was on the eastern shore came home
! aud reported that Harvard had won the race
!: and some other unwiao man gavo up the
l oolors to tho representative Of Harvard; sas
I thereupon tllo Harvard mon went mad and OK
ulted, and they nov hayo been dacoyorea, ia ano
and decided Will. perfect Justice that Yale ID ra
. | in 16m 59s., Wesleyan second, md Harvard
7 third. Harvard might have been lirst but fol
t foot below tho flag on tho west Bido: The Har.
, vard mon aro demanding Justice and vengeance
Tho Yale mon have all gone to tho ball mud for.
Q cotton their poriod Of humiliation. Look ou
. for force race next year.
| RECApFEU1.ATIoN.
8 spn1aaF1ELp, nlasa, July II, 187l.-second annua
contest Of tho 1ntcr;ooegiato Rowing Asaocstion
for vet Of champion cooru; eleven crews startea
who flushed follows:
4 Yale Nav IInyeu Conn nn>...,.,.,.,..,...,.16 J. %
r WeslSyan fIjtidlatow11 Gonu} },,,,.,,.,,..,,T Of
& Harvard Cambridge, Maas.) II
Dartmouth Hanover N, 9it
= Amherst {Alnherat, Mass.}. %
y Columbia {New York, N. .Y.).................7 639
Dowdofn Glowloip, or
Massachusetts Agricultural tAmherst, aass) .1e ~
i Cornell {Itlaca, N AZ
/ Trinity }New Iiayc1t Cont1 A
. Williams williamsburg, Massl ......%.....-..0 2s}
/ From the Doston Glo5r, July 18.
: THE WINNING CAEW-THE ENGLIBH STYLE O.
y ROWING.