The New York herald., 1874-07-16

I and Dartmouth and the last Williams Trinity and
Princeton. Guesswork merely, l am aware; but
| the guesses or those who have been on the ground
for days, and watching, many OF them, with q
pocket earnestness, Is worth more than those at a
distance, unable to judge at all. rhe order in the
grouping. supposing the division Is correct. is
somewhat thus
PLACE PRINCETON LAST.
Her light appearance, her brief experience, the
numerous faults in her WORK, and, more than all
the 2olO or more she needed or seemed to yes
terday to cover the distance, and this when the
condition OF the water could not at the outside,
have made over sixty seconds difference. all point
to this, for her, -unwecome though not altogether
unlooked-ior result. Then. as to
TRINITY,
she Ii rough at best, and has been all along and
now this change Of men SO dangerously near the
crisis, added TO her loss OF part OF the headway OF
every stroke by the scraping OF her oars on the
water on the recovery, 40 mentioned yesterday
and her general lack OF uniformity, make 1t likely
that, although her men are among the heaviest
and probably strongest on the lake, they will
hardly be better than eight In the counting Oh at
the hnish and then
WILLIAMS.
Sympathy she has sbundant-more widespread,
do mucn rowing 1t is hard to have to prepare
without any water to do 1t on, and then with
stroke oar so unquestionaoy strong and good. and
men who plainly cannot back him up, but who all
seem to have done the best. they could, why, you
cannot help liking them and wishing they may
whip every crew save your own. Dartmouth and
Cornell look too strong for her, and Dartmouth
has been going too fast with her short old fash
Toned fortynve stroke, and occasional forty-ei2ht
to make her defeat likely by either Of the three
already described. Still, II Williams succeeds in
putting any other boat behind hers, save those Of
Trinity and Princeton, 1t looks as ifit would be
DABTNoUTH'S
Her men hardly see the importance Of straight
backs, and, though built broad and bony, like the
Wards they have yet 10 learn how to barely cover
their blades and then haul Ike locomotive. The
ague, too, gives or two OF them shake, or did
when up at home, and hope he will courte0usly
wait this time till after the race Is over
CORNELL
is said to claim to be thirty per cent better than
last year; but though If true this would have made
her formidable for the front boats to-day.
yet l neither think 1t Is nor that there
is much doubt that Columbia has i'm
proved enough more yet to keep her surely
ahead Of her. King, the stroke, Is good man,
and so Is Ostrom bow; but the others are all new.
and although large and strong and well Off for
legs, there Is a lack OF the ease and dash which
evidence long experience, and are usually, indeed,
nearly always found with good work. They are
training up rather than down, hear. and will, If
not No. at the nnish be better rather than worse
COLUMBIA
has been as difficult to see this year as Yale was
last From all accounts she has improved more
within twelve months than any other OF all these
crews The three of her old men she keeps were
probably the strongest three, and the new ones do
their work well that no group here to-day talks
about the winners without mentioning Columbia
in pretty close connection. Averaging heavier
tnan Yale, pulling q stroke she learned not from
one OF her own men, who went to England on pur.
pose, but from an English rowing man who was
over In this country and took hold to show them
how, they have seen to the muscular part
Of their work until they have got into
nx, and, with the imported stroke, make
their boat travel very fast and keep
her going, too. Whether she can get out Of the.
second tho into the frst-for no one has had the
temerity to place her lower down-that seems the
problem, though more than one man can be easily
found wne believes the nrst colors the line
tomorrow evening viii be blue and white inter-
mingled. One thing Is sure, that Columbia, Yale
aud Harvard pull stroke in
MOST RESPECTS QUITE S1MILAR;
in other words. their various versions OF that
stroke called "the English" while Wesleyan does
not and does not pretend to. But then neither do
the Wards, neither did Reniorth's crew or the
Thames men, and yet London, Cambridge
or oxford would hardly keep even with,
much less beat either. Yale approached nearest
the oxford stroke saw, in high and dgnhed pre-.
csion: but they do say that before they reach the
home mile they and this precision part company
but for the matter Of that, one man, for instance
of the Harvards is said to row better during the
first two miles than in the last one In the matter
of dash there Is deal Of ease In Harvard's work,
WHILE though Cook OF Yale, has quite as much, his
men are, perhaps q little behind him. The Wes
leyans look to me more litne and active
than either the men OF Yale or Harvard
the latter being something new for her-s trine
heavy ths year-and their lin. 24s their fast
private time Is saio to need an addition OF twenty
I'VE or moro seconds in order to make is correct
as they stopped little short Of the finish line.
this be true, then, IN private practice
YALE HAS GONE THE FASTEST,
but not much, for Harvard was within ten seconds
OF her, II not five; but again, Harvard had up tt
last night marvel OF aquatic handiwork-a new
boat, built between Friday night Of last week ant
Monday night OF this. These craft art
80 fran that it usually takes about
week to get quite at home IL
| them, but If Harvard's men can before bedtime to
night get the hang Of her to their liking, and She
ia all right, should say that their chance Of win
ming was good, Tor a new boat has not yet hat
! time to soak up the fifteen or twenty pounds o
water which all shells manage to absorb after
very little WHILE and they noat somehow YER,
lightly. For sharp dash at the send OF rathe
expect to
| HEAR FROM WESLEYAN,
! while Harvard, who got the best OF the lead las
year at Springfield, may again be at her Old tricks
J heard Curtis the famous amateur single sculler
say that he had, think this season. practised owe
1000 starts. There he has the secret of avoidance
furry in the beginning OF boat race, and of almos
everything else for that matter. rather inclin
to the notion that part Of Sinzer's errand ND tn