The New York herald., 1874-07-16

give her twist somewhere, and the
&c &c sss Sc e the sns racing
might be In her best order at the crisis. Notwith-
standing these obstacles. however, her men are
all hopeful though all this talk about undying de-
termination to win which has been going the
rounds OF the press and is credited to them has
wihal rather entertaining reading for these rowers
as they lie or In their hammocks In the intervals
between WORK.
The Princeton Crew.
Next in Alphabetical order come the men Of New
Jersey, and old as Is Nassau Hall. yet making tnls
year their irst appearance in these contests They
have at home one advantage which none OF their
rivals know, indeed two; they haYe water 70 row
on that is never known to be rough. and Its sides
are everywhere parallel and 30 near together that
they must soon learn to row straight, so that We
may look for some nne steering from them
to-day. The water in question Is that
exhilarating sheet known as the Delaware and
Raritsn Canal, and no other college represented
here to-day can boast any thing like that williams,
TO be sure, comes the nearest, but the Hoossc has
one little anto unknown probably to the gay
canal-it dries up. In many ways have the news
papers contributed to mako these races what they
are to-day, and no college has felt this In more
practical way than Princeton. For, standing in
need OF q suitable boat house, Mr.. Robert Bonner,
erecting one, which made the rest easy.
The cause Of boating ct Harvard, for
instance, and doubtless at any other
OF our colleges, never from any one man received
30 large contribution. Princeton ls reputed TO
have the nearest approach to q gymnastic pro-
lessor which any college in this country has yet
found; and many OF ner men had already reputa-
ton as skilful gymnasts, TACT which did not in.
sure good rowing stun but still bore that way.
She has also Q very large number OF under
graduates both the Middle and Southern States
being strongly represented. Her crew is one OF
the hghtest Of the nine, Williams and Wesleyan
only weighing less. They have taken hold Of
their work with agood deal Of snap, eighteen men
being said to have commenced last fall 70 try for
places on the crew, and all winter long the rowing
weights at the gymnasium were filed easily. The
men have come up here anything but heavy, In
fact almost too fine, and should be more careful in
this respect ana doubtless will another year. One
OF tnem Mr.. Addtcks, knew something OF boat
racing before, having, it is said fair record as a
Ge the race ns U %ss
1a'Ss sSsS ssys .!s 'as ffs;ss zss7s9s
during the last few years and especially last year
there was such aecCns sant cropping up Of unusu.
ally gqgd. men-and now thefe are more than
Cornell and Dartmodth-nave all along been
named as likely to make up this afternoon the last
I'VE. II each 0ne OF them were as good man IN
one sense Of the word the father OF one Of them
Is in RSasr thsm nse sna wSqd .ns BE
before S ' nlghtfsil sm''1 for % the nrst place at
the finish. II they will come up another year
with more beef in their boat and especially
faithfully and judiclously coached they may come
home in the first group Of three. The observer
counsrv eoys As the sort that iii the ousrseer
Of Harvard or Columbia rather than Of sinewy
wesleya or brawny Dartmouth; they are q the
% man of their stamp Or even mQre 30. Of pipestem
arms and slab chest and IS modest as he Is tough,
rowed as one Of pair and beat q rival boat in
which sat one OF the very toughest, probably the
very toughest, American college Oarsman, certainly
sat in boat. His arms were over an inch probably
nearly two inches, larger than any here to-day. He
had trained for his race; his mate looked good
man, almost as good as the companion OF the thin
man, and yet the pipestem arms made 1t hos
work for him all the way, and when they
and his boat had won. The blood and other ele-
ments which enable q man to thus do far more
than his looks would Eeem to justify are said to now
freely In some Of these Princeton veins, so tODOr.
rows news may be that one OF the to be first four
dropped out and Princeton took her place. But
probably not
The Trinity Crew.
The Trinity crew. The name reminds one OF
Cambridge England, whose Trinity Is great row.
ing college, the Third Trinity crew for instance,
having q few years ago made wonderfully fast
time on the Henley track. Connecticut Is doing
very we'll this year, as last sending three OF the
crews-Yale, Wesleyan and Trinity-to only two
from Massachusetts, one from New Hampshire,
one from New Jersey and two from New York,
Rhode Island adding Freshman crew. Trinity
had a notion Of being in these races long ago.
p hoou NJ ha fOur
Yale and Brown being the other three, which were
represented by delegates in the convention of May
%, 1885, Bot the melancholy disaster OF that year,
the drowning OF George E. Dunham the stroke OF
the Yale boat his boat having c0lided with another,
ended the arrangements for any race that year.
The same colleges were again represented on the
23d OF February 1859, this time at Providence,
r. l.. and decided to have the race on Lake Quin-
sigamond, the first one, by the way, on that water.
When the time came around 1t was found. l be-
lieve, that Trinity could not make up crew, 30
Harvard, Yale and Brown had 1t all to themselves.
She was not heard from again till 1872 when she
entered the association; but their boat getting
stove up while coming on the cars they had
again, unfortunately, to withdraw. Nothing
daunted, they made another try last year, and
came up to Springfield with Q crew averaging
Mght-about 145-several OF whom had seen some
rowing, ana Que OI TWO COuSlOeraOle Gym00SuCS.
Among the eleven crews they were in the modest
group which did not like to push themselves for
ward too boldly at the finish. Neglect OF training,
TOO, had doubtless something to do with this; but
the charge will hardly hold good this year. The
crew were gotten together as early as April last,
and saw plenty OF work In their barge-a sort OF
boat not unlike o racing Shell in length, but
broader and deeper and nearly twice as heavy
the Connecticut lying convenient for any work
they wanted to take Instead of one OF the ightest
they are now one or the heaviest OF the year.
averaging twenty-five years OF age, and have a
boat from Elliott. Since reaching Saratoga they
have been staying at John Rley's, far up the west
shore OF the lake and well out OF the way OF the
public eye. Pour OF them are six feet higk, and
the average height OF all SIX ia SIX feet, one OF
them having an inch to spare. They have
had no Cook over them to show them how
to use their abundant strength. and, IN common
with many OF the crews here o-day, that is just
what they most need. Still the care bestowed on
their rowing BY the few who do the best work
offers them something OF such value that they Will
scarcely fail to copy II, and with such material as