The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-07-17
TIE COLLEGIATE REGATTA.
Springfield on the Eve Of the Great
Aquatic Event.
A Last Peep at the Contest
ing Crews.
DRAWING POSITIONS.
Meeting OF the Captains---The
Rowing Numbers.
Harvard and Yale Draw the Gen.
tral Places.
tCoLoRs AND ARRANGEMENTS.
Yale Beats Cornell in the Cham
pi0nsh p Scull Race. a
The Hub and Gotham on the
.i,. Ball Field. z.
$3.50 10 aa".t
THE FOOT RACE ENTRIES.
College Pedestrians Competing
= for the Challenge Cup.
Agreeable Open-Air Quarters for
5la Tardy Visitors.
Loud Criticism on the Con-
., necticut Course.
The Hub and Gotham on the
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s, - Ball Field. ao
THE FOOT RACE ENTRIES.
College Pedestrians Competing
for the Challenge Cup.
Agreeable Open-Air Quarters for
.5a Tardy Visitors.
Loud Criticism on the Con-
necticut Course.


APeep 1t the Crews Eorty-Eight Hours
Before the Race.
5i.. SPRINGFIELD, July Is, 1873.
1t Is quite possible that the Yale crew are playing
shrew der game than any of their rlvas OF the
morrow, Tor t.ey have at least put themselves
where they show their hand but little, being some
three miles higher up the river than any OTHERS
and seldom coming down for practice row VI the
course iavoring instead that position more conve-
nient to their purpose. Like ali men trying to do
really creditable thing, they have been more or
less decred for their attempts get tue stroke Of
the London Rowing Club, Or Of the OXFORD men.
MI. Cook told me this morning that their hope
was not 80 much to show among the foremost TINS
year as to lay the foundation lOr fast work next.
This plan lived faithfully up to- will certainly bring
$hem credit and 60 far toward preventing in the
future such action as that taken the other day at
their triennial dinner BY their class OF 1870.
s.3 YALE MUST STAND UP.
= The last paragraph Of t-er preamble and resou-
lions then ran as ioilOws:-
Whereas 1t Ia the opinion of the class that the
lack Of tho r0ughness IN DONG our WORK, the want
OF determination and the spirit VI sLirking, which
soon characterize the represen tatives Oi this
college III other capacities and That the Incidence
field and ON the water will ultimately disgrace
IN intellectual and moral contests.
Be 1t resolved, That 1t is our duty as Alumni Of
Yale College to Identity ourselves lar possible
with the boating aud base pail interests OF this
college. to give them all the support and encour-
representatives Ofthese interests that we shall al
ways regard their g. ccess or defeat as our own.
Be II also resolved That in the opinion OF ms class
1t is the duty OF the authorities OF thus college to
take some active measures 10 remedy the existing
physical decentralization OF Yale College, and to in-
sst that its muscular representatives. shall either
win back its aurels or devote themselves to more
congenial pursuits than boating and base ball.
Such plain talk as this indicates not only state
of things demanding strong remedy, but the
courage to look straight at the situation and bet
ter it. Harvard man as 1 am, 1t is Almost painful
80 me to hear Yale Inundated BY the hope ex-
pressed by men OF unquestionaby the slowest
crews here that they can beat Yale at any
rate. She has rowed Harvard TOO often
and beaten her to often to make such
talk palatable to anv who has been
> Cambridge man, and glad as should be to see
the old Magenta leading them all home tomorrow
afternoon, would sooner see Yale close upon her
than any other college. Unfortunately she was
not going out this morning until quite q while
after was up there, and as to stay and see her
would lose me q sight Of any other crew went
down the river and had good
LOOK AT THE CORNELL MEN.
The crew does not appear dangerous, being neither
broadly nor thicKly made, but OF good height,
handy and Of active bearing, but every other man
looked good for a long pull ct the oar, all being
rather large sized men, old and well seasoned.
1 understand that Coulter claims theirs
to be q combination of the English and Ameri-
can stroke II any one knows what that means.
1t looks much like that Of Harvard. being OF about
the same length, the bodies swinging hardly past
the perpendicular, and the reach being good; but
while with good grip on the water they did not
move as fast through 1t, and have less dash; but
they look so strong and willing when at work that
Notwithstanding individual faults they get unques
tionable speed out OF their boat and promise they
will not conhne this to the first or even the second
mile. Indeed the Harvard captain told me lately
that he thought Cornell would be about
HARvARDs UaLIEsT ENEMY.
Still she will make her fight for every inch Of the
way, and not II she nelp 1t let the youngest uni
versty represented here defeat the Oldest Indeed II
old John Harvard could iise for LII tie while and look
in among Us, hardly know q more proper place to
present him to Mr.. Cornell than here at this great
gathering Of the colleges And by the way,
WHAT MEETINGS
there will be here on the morrow President Eliot,
OF Harvard may, side by side with Goodwin Smith,
60 over their old athletics, and see what improve
ments to-day has brought forth, for II Is not odd
that Harvard likes 70 row whenever this same
kTeSl0ent B near, VINO many years ago used 70
pull stroke for Harvard crew, once going as was
informed BY one who went along, . trip Of
nearly thirty miles on one day from Cambridge
away to Fort Warren. at the mouth Of Boston har-
Dor, and back. Then again Mr.. Agassiz likes to see
good race, and hts son was for many years bow OF
The Harvard crew; while President White may
come up to see whether his boys win avoid betting
and 90 win the sx-oared shell no has promised
them on fAet condition. The whole year brings no
other such opportunity for meeting Of all the
faculties and we may yet be hearing OF their join
ing annually around the well laden board while
their pupils are at sheif chops and cracked wheat
by the river side. aO
TIE STURDY w1LLrASs BOYS.
The next crew I saw was that 6N Williams, and
Mr. Cluster, their stroke, who has been called the
strongest man on the river, was certainly setting
them some lively work, which they were not slow
to initiate. The impression is abroad that they
will be among the leaders OF the last I'VE, and
should think that they would do better than that,
rather than worse whskers seem to fare well up
among their Berkshire hills, stroke and the three
men forward OF midship, INDUCING each in pair
which can be distinctly seen, and viii aid their
colors in making them known to the irfriends