The New York herald., 1874-07-19

to the Columbia. Then went ,ut the hying Zap
whangle of Harvard, like great bird OF blood
riOting over a battlefield, al d the right OF the
stand was waving with red light on sticks AMI
wells and parasols ana hats Next the lavender
was lifted up, and all the brethren arose and
shouted "Hosannas." The blue Of Yale had
scarcely been indicated when, before it touched the
halyards, the Yale men were all tumult, yet
troubled at the hardness of their boys.
Again the blue and white, ut the end OF the mile,
was run to the peak, and now it was seen that
half the whole audience had grasped the proDa-
bility of SO many wild stories OF the time made BY
this crew over the course, and had come to belief
and desire together. New York had been ahead
from the start, and was Keeping up her stroke.
This part OF the audience had the whole Of the
cheering to do Tor the rest OF the two miles yet to
be rOwed, and there was no cessation Of the Joy
and graduation until at the last it took the form
of ecstacy, and was the stronger because it was
genuine metropolitan Outburst, III part dlscOn-
nected from college knowledge and college afilia-
tions. The ladies, as an lrishman might have ex-
pressed it, were for Columbia to man.
Meantime the crews had been dlscerncd in that
vacuity of distance to be coming to some sensible
form and substance. First we saw a few pale
nashes when the sun struck the oar blades and
the shining backs OF the naked crews as If shoal
of moss bunkers or blue fish had come to the sur
face. Presently this animal light extended across
the bet OF water rOwed, and something seemed TO
struggle in the air for outline and intelligibity.
Next, like wide line OF battle of Indians. stripped
in their war canoes and approaching
with purpose, the living men appeared
in the body, bending columns OF flesh,
all of one bright walnut tint, with turbans above
Of bright or parti-colors, and they drew nearer
~ strI1,u
high above the water, others yet in the struggle
between formlessness and form.
Still tho pleasant colors OF Columbia held the
peak OF the low fagsta1, the azure and the lily
dominating above the green of the mountain air OF
Dartmouth, the unsubsiantial lavender OF Wesley
an, or she royal purple OF the great University OF
Massachusetts Bay.
'Whereis Yale ?" say many voices, whispering
low. Harvard answers it back satiricaly, "Where
is YaleYn
Now entering the neck OF the lake, the last half
mile, all which have any chance are seen in their
relative opportunity. Columbia clear ahead, and
rowing clear and equal as the sweep OF the wings
ormigratory birds bound for some far journey. Her
men seemed to be making no effort other than
plain avocation, and so gently did their oars and
bodies fail and rise that it looked If they might
keep up the stroke to the end of time Four OF the
SIX men we're six-footers, but he who sat in the
stern was only twenty years old and the least OF
all in stature, and OF the weight OF 153 pounds.
Everybody knew Frank Rees, Columbia's stroke,
who said in the morning, "If can't win this race
l won't 60 home this summer" Their bandages
Of blue and white described an arc tn rough the
air as they rowed which attested the periectness
Of their stroKe-partly natures, partly the best
obtainable from English experience--and, reach
ing far forward on the sliding seats, they pulled
other crews in sight were only draw
line, like man pulling gang saw. They were so
Tar the superiors in finish aud style Of their CON-
pettors in the rear that the Ward Brothers and
Biglin. pulling the NEW YORK HERALD's boat
abreast Of them, scarcely seemed more profess
sional boatmen. perfectly homogeneous crew.
every boy New Yorker, city bred and city
schoOled, they were beheld from the shore by their
family connections-Cornells, Reeses, Rapallos,
Griswolds, Goodwins and Timpsons-with
quiet metropolitan pride, while their
college mates and sweethearts, and
thousands, who never knew them except by the
instinct Of fellow townsmen, shook hats and skirts,
raised voices and laughter, and rushed along the
gangways to hail them as they closed the score
and vindicated the city. The moment the boat
backed oars and grated on the snOre FRANK Rees
tainted. He was lifted up by instantaneous han ds
and followed by multitude, few OF whom knew
that ne was disabled, was carried like the victor he
was up the hill TO Moons and laid upon the porch
His perspirlng and nearly naked fellows were aso
carried by their associates up the HILL and they ap-
peared on the upper balcony for a minute, rous.
ingly cheered. The lawn was now full of the sing
ing OF slaves and snatches OF rejoicing airs and
nuttering Of shawls, streamers and boat flags of
blue and white. And so it was all the way to
town, as If nature had suddenly ordered the red
stripes out Of the American nag and restricted the
population to the white and azure
Meantime, behind, the other crews were giving
their several stories Of the way things went wrong.
Harvard was, on the whole, delighted that Colum-
bia had beaten instead of Yale. Yale was re-
preaching Harvard, without acrimony OF running
foul Of their shell and breaking an oar for them
and calling on the Wesleyans TO attest 1t. The
wesleyans also advanced the theory that Columbia
had taken their water which was evidently the
truth, having taken 1t from the start.