New-York tribune., 1873-07-22
REGATTA PROBLEMS.
THE vExED QUESTIONS REVIEWED.

WESLEYAN OR AMHERST COME IN SECOND =
LESSONS THAT SHOULD BIZ Needed.
gxoN AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRrBUNE.I
SPRINGTELD, July 19.-The persistent at
,epps made TO prove Harvard the rghtful winner in
M late regatta attract considerable attention here
ooke some sharp criticism. Mr.. Babcock the referee
anley asserts that the score, finishing line
aa OF being located at right angles with the river
h.rts "a It should have been, was, by carelessness
,8itv on the part Of those who located it, placed
s,onally the eastern end Of the line being $50
80 lower down the river than the westerly end
..re the Judges requested by the umpire TO sta
,oD themselves" He also characterized the score as
svne no two points Of which were equidistaDt from
A., startp and then gives a diagram Showing this
g. q, the mart OF the Committee" whereby
Sear,aiD boats were actual winners that are now
q, ICED 10 have second places assigned them" The
- 4, the case do not support these assertions Last
~ course was measured on the Ice, the startin hne
~, plaeed at night angles TO the banks hne' three
ts in length perpendicular TO the starting hne' was
asured Of and the half mile points on shore ue'er
- Tho limo for the finish was located, as II sh oud
ve heen daconaly across the river, at right angles
N the center line OF three miles, and was thence
rausl IN the line OF start and all points III the one
refo were eguidstant from all corresponding POI nts
the other After the head Of this years course had
en- located by the Regatta Committee IN May
B. Harris, the principal civil engineer
O. SPRINGFIELD who had originally surveyed the course
lated the starting line at night angles with the hanks
stSOs feet down the center line above aludeu TO- ana
On located as the score the diagonal parallel to the
art which has proved obnoxious to Harvards news
paper champions. Upon visiting Mr. Harriss ohce ana
consulting his diagram OF the survey of the course the
oye facts were elected and it proved, according
o. the rules opane geometry that the lines OF start ano
hash being parallel TO each other point in one was
exactly three miles from any corresponding point
IN the other, and that, II the line had been
cated as Mr. Babcock declares it ought to have been
ten crew the east side wOuld have had nearly GOO
feet less to row than one upon the west side of the river
ANY keeping parallel to tho curve Of the
river would pull Just the same distance as any otheT
crew pulling similar course from stt 20 finish, on the
course laid out uner the direction Of the committee
IL would seem thai before charging 'carelessness OF
stupidity the part Of those ThO located the line
placed da6Onay" to the curviuG banks Of the river
brief time spent in learning the difference in nature
and relations between straight and curved lines would
mt have been altogether misaTpded.
DaBss complaint, so strongly and repeatedly urged
MAT he misoo the end of the course because no flag
bNas placed on The east bank should have but little
teicht MrEarris the sd OF July placed three nags
sn the west hank, al the start, ano at the p
end the d at the Smile Toint; while on the east bank
FBespOndir TO the three Gags he placed three stakes
eana. up tc last Monday afternoon, was Chairman o
he Regdtts Committee, sDd was the one ana only maj
who lad .; o power 20 have what seemed wrong SCI
sight. Perhaps his mistale him the race so. h
as himslf to thank ard fairly blame no one else
The belief seems to be gaining ground that tn
Amherss entitled 10 the second place. TIT
Amhers. illustrate very well the conflicting nature
OF the evidence in regard TO all the except Sa
ana williams. The Amherst and Yale judges both de
clare hat Amherst crossed the score next 10 Yale The
were the only judges the boat, anchored 10 mid
stream, near which these crews crossed. But th
referee declared That judges in the river couldn't tel
which boats crossed first aud the Judges the ives
snk not agreed on the question: after taking evi
devce from the Nole crew ana outsiders" awarded
Wesleyan the second position, and Harvard third
Scores OF dsinte~esed persons shore, the finish
sGy ID saw Amherst come in second, while not few
arc willing oath that the crew, whose bOw-Oars
man had "a large A on his back crossed next TO Yale
Eor instance, q Springfield gentleman, VINO had pur
posely stationed himself tine end of the river
AYERS that hsass covered two crews Yale and be
4OOk be Amherst because of the large just spoken
Of SO while the Weseyans claim that Harvard kept
crossing ther bows and admit that Harvard thrd
they claim she second place, saying they were pu
second, and they suppose they were second" WbeI
the observer Of the Telegraph Company declares tha
Amherst was second and some one else is morally Ger
tain that Dartmouth ahead of her, and another
says, "So It was Cornell" what probability is ther,
Da any satisfactory decision will ever be rendered.
The race, both in its management and mismanage
eent proves that the competing colleges must send
their representatives 20 conventions aud regattas hel
best trained organizers and business men, well a
their most muscular and sku athletes. There is
Of fewer youths and more men. Let the President o
the Association be a man. not freshman, graduate
leed be; let him be chairman oGfciO of the Regat
COmmittee let him be responsible to the association 70
All the regatta arrangements; let hun make his plan
and appoint ms committees, weeks in advance OF tn
cace let him be hand at Springfield for at least te
lays, 10 that his committees do their duty, and
tha have college regattas in which the cOncu
siOn Of the contest the water will be but the begin
7iug OF a weary Of words upon the land. Aside
rom the manifest mismanagement, the Third An
iual Regatta has been pronounced sue
ess. IL has proved that the largest concOursC
cole gians is remarkably free from blackguardism
ruukeuness, gambling and lawlessness. The Spring
cd has been put to the test and proved
Irequaed. Future should be pulled in the fore
oOn for weeks with the exception Of the 17th the
reyaling winds in the afternoon unfavOrable tC
owing, while the water generally smooth In the
forenoon. While these facts proved, the generaza
OHs. because Yale won to the decided superiority
he supposed English roke and method of training are
rot conclusive. Last years time not equaled by
aearly half minute, though the Amhersts pulled then
Jn stationary seats aud were under the care Of pro-
sessional" The that IN second was pressing
Yale and was either the Wesleyan or Amherst. In the
me case it used stationary seats and trained by
Singer in the other pulled the Ward stroke sliding
SeAts and trained by Ellis Ward
SARATOGA VERSUS SPRINGFIELD.
fTom ne Springfield hcpubhcGR
IL IS a fact within the knowledge of many
OF our readers-though 10 will undoubtedly be to
nOre-that strong push was made 10 capture the re-
and rfn loan ffrffv