New-York tribune., 1874-06-24
THE COLLEGE REGATTA.
THE MEN OF TRINITY.

THIS YEARS EFFORT.
IrRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF rHE TRIBUNE
HARrFoRD, June l5-The large class OF peopio
who always sympathize with the vanqhsneu w"
be glad to hear that Trinity. when iha.o .'N Dau
niece of work of IL last year. has this year got cf"
which IN strength and zeal will vie with the
hoS+ Jf tho facts were all known ii would be seen
that Trinity GOT lust what it deserved last year.
,,oor+ t,ot IL ought to have brought up the rear
,h;n5 tbe Gallant Williams, which did Its best, IN
sn;te of misfortune. Ii is rather an AWKWARD s'ua
tion. doubtless for racing crew when the men are
so incongruous that the bow weighs less than Two
Thirds as much as the stroke, as did Trinity last
year. but in a small college. il that is the best
that can be done. nobody finds fault. Innltys
crew, however was an occasion of common JEST
had almost said scandal-at Springfield last year.
on account of the outrageous Sinking they prac'
ticed. In spite of Mr.. McKennan. their captain VINO
did his work and tried hard TO keep them up 10
theirs they made their stay at Springfield period
Of soth and luxury rather than of steady living and
hard work With crews like that of Williams, one
Of whose men broke down from over effort, people
naturally sympathze; but when crew comes IN at
the tail end of race account OF persistent shlrk
ing and physical irregularities during the training
period the natural reflection is that it serves them
right.
Mr. McKcnnan has got rid of the whole OF tha'
crew and this year has men OF an entirey ulHereht
stamp: not only men of fine physical abilities, but
men who will do their work and not fail him when
it comes 20 the pinch of hard work.
MUSCULAR CHRISTIANS.
.1+isra+tcr novel feature that three of this crew
are what would be called young ministers in any
other denomination. and what are known as lay
readers in the Episcopal Church, often reading the
service in the churches. They are studying, OF
course for the ministry. Some of the other crews
have young preachers among their number; Dut
none. I think, have many as this They are
"Sons of Thunder" too, and will be sure not to DIS
credit the cloth Messrs. Beecher, Hepworth, Muir
raw and other muscular Christians can safely recog
nize them as their representatives,. Two OF the
crew have worked on farm, and two
Others have lived in Minnesota woods
which is substantially the same thing.
Wherever there are men who have done farm-work,
they are recognized the strongest men, and lnev-
itably find disproportionate representation in the
crews to the exclusion Of men of mere gymnasium
made muscle The twenty Oxford students who
have actually gone TO work with pIckax, shovel.
and barrow among the gardens and cottages OF the
moor in the neiehborhood of the University, in ac-
cordance with Mr.. Ruskin's publicly given advice,
will perhaps find that the Ruskinian plan is not
only good for the intellect, but the best method OF
obtaining the bodily force which is now the requi-
site in education-the sine qua mon.
These six Trinity men are the selected result OF
considerable number that have been working at the
gymnasium in the past Winter, the Colleges boat
ing enthusiasm having been increased rather than
damped by the i'll success of last year. The last
change was made only two weeks ago by the substi-
tuition of Mr. Dubois, jr. for Mr.. Kane as bow.
THE CONNECTICUT AN UNRULY RIVER.
An excellent set of rowing weights with sliding
bay haan in at the Gymnasium and the
selected men, having worked Systematically all
Winter, went into practice already in good oondi-
tioD They have been pulling in their practice boat
seven weeks, with some intervals of delay, due to
the eccentric behavior of the venerable COnnecti-
cut. This father of New-EnglaDd waters has been
very turbulent this year. Whether the cause was
the sudden addition of so large volume of water
from Mill River. OF from some more occult cause,
those learned in floods and freshets may decide.
One of the effects has been to discompose not little
the crews that row upon its surface. Wesleyan had
much ado to prevent their entire boating outfit from
going down stream and were driven oft entirely at
one time, water standing three feet deep on
their lower floor. Even Dartmouth, up at the
head waters has had to fOrsake the rver and pull on
Enfield Lake for two weeks, on account of the null
timde of stray logs which the old fellow picks up in
the North and whrls along in bis current to the I'M
mneut danger of the slender she'll Trinity has been
nlaced in much the same position as Wesleyan. and
they have found it necessary TO have their boat
house hoated, and have placed 1T in scow and
noored it out of the COnnecticuts current at the
foot of Charter Oakave IN Little River, 100 yards
or so from its mouth. The boats, meantime-which
consist of three old sixoared shells, practice and
racing boat both built by Elliott last year. and four
single sculs-have been stored near by out of harms
way. This has occasiOned hiatus in the rowing
nractice of over week. but the crew is at work
again.
The course pursued is briefly as follows.
In the morning an easy walk of hours length, at
noon n quicker walk of half hour ard in the after
noon pull of seven or eight miles, after which
comes bath and good rubbing down. The sys-
tenn of diet is rather of prescription than pre-
scription. Certain articles well known to be un-
wholesome are prescribed. Other things may be
eaten Pastry tobacco. coffee pork, and all stimu-
lants are ruled out. The crew pull plain forward
and back stroke with special pretensons to style
or scientific points, making generally 81 strokes to
the minute.
I Of size and muscle there is no want among the
crew. j should not select any one Of them
model of symmetry and strength combined, but they
average extremely well, and evidently have the
great requisite, grit" They do not seem to fear
the formidable preparations of Yale but will 60 to
Saratoga determined TO retrieve the failure of last
year, be their opponents who they may.
THE CREW.
The men pull at present in the following positions
Weight
No. O. sidney d. Hooker.......... &c 15s
No. 8, John ID. McKennan. 81 l7s
No. 4, W. j. .R0Derts.............. 70 IoO
No. 8, II. NJ. Hooper ......- - I6I
Stroke, II. o. Dubois ............. 20 lou
The bow, Mr.. G. H. Dubois, is a senior, and comes