The New York herald., 1874-07-16

take place near city, where friends can be cared
for, provisions mad and the many numerous wants
OF numerous people used TO comfortable living
rightly looked after. The six contending colleges
were Amherst. Harvard, the Agriculturals, Bow
doin Williams and Yale-for It was hard work
staying away; while in the Freshman Race another
stranger-Wesley an-put in her maiaen appear.
ance. Brown, too, and Yale and Amherst keeping
her company And now yet another surprise was
In store for all people interested in good rowing
For not only was the very fast time OF the last
year-faster than viii be made to-day-fairly
beaten, but the crew that did the beating paid
no allegiance to Elihu Yale John Har-
ward, nor was 1t yet Agricultural, but from
an institution in the same town as the
latter, and one, too, which has given
US one OF the most renowned OF American
divines-Henry Ward Beecher-od Amherst. Six
teen minutes and thirty two seconds fourteen and
han seconds better than the rapid work OF 1871,
was the oflcial time announced at the close, while
Harvard made o fair second in lem. 57s; the
Agges were third in lin. 19s, BOwdoin fourth In
I'm. SIS, Williams next In I'm. $685., and Yale,
evidently rusty after her long pouting SPELL sixth
In Ism. 58s.
THE ENTRIES OF 1873.
Now these races were beginning to assume II not
unwieldy at least formidable proportions, and
many thought that In point Of mbers the climax
for many as there seemed in 1872 when the entries
OF 1873 were closed and counted over there were.
instead OF six, almost twice six. New Hampshire
had contributed her sturdy Dartmouth; Connecti-
cut added Wesleyan; the Empire State her young
giant Of rapid growth, Cornell and thinking she
might need some city boys. too, had adued
Columbia, while the home Of the wooden nutmegs
subscribed little Trinity. Eleven six-oared crews
all to row abreast, and yet to have no crowding,
fAr b,,k
still 1t was undoubtedly to be tried, for one after
another the crews dropped down to Springfield
and took up their quarters along the river Boat.
builders and oarmakers had been working almost
night and day, and for weeks together. The active
boating interest OF the country was centred IN
Springfield. Meanwhile, as has been too often the
case where students had the management,
THE MANAGEMENT
was very poor The city had appoin ted commit
zee to help the students, but both seem to have
been shamefully inefficient or neglectful and as
the time drew near, and the crowd began to
gather, much was undone that should have been
all arranged and attended to. AT the starting
time the boats were crowded closely together as
almost toucn oars Harvard and YALE for instance,
being but forty -four feet apart The river had
fallen very low, the course was crooked and sand
bar with scarce foot and hall of water and near
half mile long lay right In the track OF some OF
the crews only to be avoided by detour evidently
unjust. At the finish the line was so drawn that
even to this day there Is much honest difference
as to just where it did run. Instead of the race
being started promptly at four-a matter of vital
Importance where many thousands are inter-
ested-there was no one who seemed to have the
power or spirit to order the crews out and send
them OF. No proper accommodations were pro-
vided for the referee and he had do the best he
could towards finding means to see the race, when
his say was 80 final. Four O'Clock, as to-day, was
the time fixed. It came, and quarter past and
half and five O'Clock, andnot one crew had shown,
and no one seemed trying to collect them. Half
past five passed. and then six struck. Now they
began to crawl out, and by fifteen minutes later 1t
began to look
LIKE RACE.
At toh 20m. on Thursday afternoon, July II, FRANK
G. Brown, Captain Of the Nassau Boat Club, OF
New York city, cautioned the crew, and then gave
the word 'Gol" Harvard at once showed well to
the 'front.' and 1t was not many minutes before she
and her old rival Yale had again paired OF, each
seeming bound to make up for 1870. They swept
on down stream, Harvard trine ahead and the
others trailing along in q bunch not far behind.
1t was coming on dusk as they got down towards
the grand stand The referees boat was some
distance behind. and as they crossed the line some
on one side OF the river and some on the other it
else to say
WHO WAS THE WINNER.
To people on one side OF the river 1t seemed to
be Harvard, to those on the other Yale, with Wes-
leyan second and Harvard third, and so at last,
after much discussion and doubt, the referee
concluded that Yale had first crossed q line which,
had 1t been correctly drawn, would have been
reached first by Harvard. Indeed the latter had
supposed they had won. and some one on the
judges boat had, through mistake, given her men
the nags, which they took to their boatnouses;
but, on learning to their great surprise. that the
decision had gone for Yale, promptly turned them
over The fact seems to be that Yale really sup
posed she had won and Harvard that she had,
and 1t was this doubt that accounted for the
marked quiet prevailing in Springfield on the night
alter contest which used in other years to bring
q noisy hilarlty and glee that all who ever OBJ
served 1t cannot readily forget. Yale certainly
had done better than was generally expected ana
her captain and one other OF her men of that year
are hoping hard ere nightfall to take and carry
away from all competitors the crown OF victory
for 1874
PREVIOUS RACES.