New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-07-07
THE COLLEGE REGATTA.
x-THE HARVARD GREW.

-u,. AMI, r>,nrn RECORD or NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
uop RoATrNG KDUcATIoN-c0MPosITIoN OF
-, -prv-THE TRAINING AND sTROKE-THE
REGIME OF TRAINING
- ,,nprDGE. Mass, July l. Harvard has
s..vtost stake. perhaps, Of any institution
- coming race The prestige as champion
-, an American waters, which she has sus-
49, cor more than score OF years. is not 70 he
- abandoned. and her fine crew will this year
-. , tremendous effort 10 regain It. Almost every
.,-+ogconrss 10 New-England has upbOrne the swift
$50 Of H4rvard's boats. and her record is the record
=, American college boating At Center HarbOr. the
white Mountain Lake Wiunepiseogee. Harvard first
me. Vale IN 1882. and won her first victory again
the Connecticut four years after she victorious
ae.in In l5O Harvard vanquished Yale and Brown on
outnaesmond though Yale again beat Harvard in the
worcester races OF the day following which led the
invention Of the foot rudder in universal use Har-
ward having attributed the defeat 20 OF steering
machinery In 1861 Yale with her famous Wilbur Booth
crew vanquished Harvard in fair struggle But from
Wism Bakes in 1859 70 Negotiable of 1863
when with one crew English waters Harvard the
victory with another the American Lake and includ
ine the Of 1870 Harvard steadily tho winner
Then came InCleside when Harvard was Unexpectedly
brought dip the proud which had often been
borne the OF the Unknown Agricultural College
Of Massachusetts Last year she made splendid strns
gle but was again defeated by homespun crew rom
Amherst In spite OF a magnificent effort.
HARvARD's ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES.
This year she has pted against her not one crew but
ten Another hard. tough. pluoky. wel-ploked crew
from Amherst like that OF last year, skllfu and we'll
trained with the oar will furnish another stout opDo
osuG crew Of similar temperament and antecedents
from Dartmouth. inferior them, perhaps, in skill and
tnstdiscipnne which makes the six work ike one,
bat in point Of size and strength superior to any
tsar crew ever seen in American college boat Har
vsrd brings against them many advantages Upon the
t-1sd deep uver which flows half a mile from her
brdngs, she has a bOat-hOuse ike O hotel filed with
foals o. every description, single, double four and
cared bv the dozen To these craft she has more
Than thousand students from whom she may select the
bs To keep them their WORK she has the universal
enthusiasm Of . community Of boating students, and
The traditions Of long series Of boating struggles. To
supply the needed money has hundreds OF wealthy
amateur students and alumni and again less money is
needed the supply Of previous is at hand to
drsv from. The OF last year was that viii be
long remembered. Harvard leading I'll the close,
failed respond % the last squirt and the hardy Am
her men putting ont at their captains eau the strength
Fmch along they had been holding in passed
them By almost the goal Stung by losing victory
almost IN their grasp, the Harvard declared
snd al, that they would again tAi, year Bryant,
however Of the best Of the Of ,ast year ana
Lloyd have been unable 20 keep their promise and the
ceT after an, is but half made up Of last years men.
THE CREW