The New York herald., 1874-07-16

was Iourteen ana one-qunrter Tnere ID notning
heavy or clumsy though, about Goodwin, tan as he
Is The more one looks at crew like TINS the more
seems the pity that this strength could not be
made the most or Already the complaint Is that
they are down far too thin and nne and IT Is hard
TO get hesh back In this hot weather. The Old
them-nothng but meat and old bread and little
potato-ts working As 1t always does work and
doubtless always VIII. The ldea OF doing without
good vegetables right in their seasonl one wouid
think that men who thought at all Tor themselves
would know better. what sense Is there IN train.
much money aud labor, and after . crew
Is gotten into working order Ieeding them
It Was vas, nse % getting Heenan's muscles ike marble,
and forgetting al about his vitality, and then
getting him whipped in canter BY smaller man
| like King A man at the top Of his condition does
! not teel dragged and sober and all gone, but un-
commonly light and spnngy, and when he is SO
there Will usually be found little nesh on his ribs.
The Men of Dartmouth.
There is something solid too about that name.
1t suggests Daniel Webster and the great college
| law case and White Mountains and rocks and
! things stanch and nrm and stable. And yet In
| this sort OF work they DO not want to be so
stable, but to move right along, and to move
80 fast as to beat the others. They came
| up last year to Springfield the tslleat men
OF all, and. Ike Cornell, the heaviest. But
these big men did not know how 20 use their
strength and they trained IN system which
strength they had. Just look at I'll Three
niles OF walking before breakfast, when most men
are weak from being twelve or fourteen hours
empty, and do not feel ike WORK; six miles OF
rowing right afterwards, then Q nice six-mile
row, then some dinner, SIX miles more row and six
more OF walk, and finally. alter supper, another
three-mile walk to top on with ana that In midsum
mer weather, say like Monday two weeks ago. Is 1t
strange thai they were not Mt to do their work.
other way after such q dose as that.
1t was natural enough for them to loaf this year,
and likely enough 1t almost the best thing they
could DO, for 1t would take rheir systems almost
year to recruit from such wild treatment. Was 1t
wonderful that one evening as they were getting
out Of the boat four men vomltedf Or that next
day they could scarcely crawl about, and some
were seriously Ill Though q majority OF the
men are new they suggest last years in
sfyei si averssns over @ SIX eet evan in Segn @ 'sr Tney
are aOs se @
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careful coaching, applied with tact and much
good nature, but apphed-that Is Ynat they
fessional trainers are at last disoarded. Uncom.
monty tough men, they thouSdtIessly suppose that
al others can stand as sanch, and in consequence
There never was aS5 heed Of having professional
trainer S y mcss of the colleges Never yet for
talksu s. IT, Il. Good W lungs and vital power these
dartmouth men seem to have, and they may Q-day
pull her through past some q The sIssa men hoyn no
and it may be that these stalwart sons
four this afternoon comes and they are getting
along well down the second mile, will let out reef
their backs and skim y ,5 past some Of those ns
those who purport to know. In making up their
minds what crew can do men often show
strange tendency to think that the college which
won the last year will win this, when, IN fact, the
men are all or nearly all different apd little can
be told about them. This glitter and glare OF being
talked about before the public may be the spur to
some Others may see that In taking hold OF q dim-
make an Impression on their fellows sure TO tell by
and but often there Is entire or at least par
tla lack OF the spirit which the year before effected
30 much and so tne new crew does not do 80 well.
Tho Harvard Crew.
High up on a grassy knoll overhangng the lake
in it's northwest corner and quite near MI Lesie's
grounds is large and rather imposing white
building, the external appearance OF which is
rather pretenti0us, but on entering which Q feel
ing OF disappointment creeps over one; Tor the
floors are bare and almost damp, ano with the
uncut grass outside, gives the whole place an air
floors, and though in these annual jaunts to train
| ing quarters Hsrvard--for this Is her temporary
home-has hit upon some quarters where the
opportunities for sefdenial were excellent, she
has succeeded in this direction this time perhaps
better than ever. Going behind the house and
along down the back lot an eighth OF o mile,
you come to a long, low wooden shed, new and for
its purposes well built, and from its further end
runs short bridge down to q noat on the edge Of
the lake. Here at many hours Of the day you will
md half dozen men about, and You Will not have
to look long until large "H" on flannel shirt or
something saying Harvard University Boat Club"
old envelope the floor dire :ted TO some one
Of the Harvard crew makes you quite certain that
the crimson nag, with white bars across 1t and the
letters "H B. c." nuttering on the house back up
the hill ls that OF the Harvard crew. That nag, by
the way has o record which makes 1t every year
more precious to every wearer of the red ;
for i've years ago, on a stan on the right
bank of the Thames, four miles above Lon
don, there was run up at about each
daybreak nag OF broad blue ground, with
white bars across it, and having the three large
letters a. R. c." stretching from the stan out
wards, and above It, by the courtesy OF its owners
who were then acting as hosts, this same old red
nag swung gracefully out TO the breeze. Its own
ers this year have BY their record and their prac-
tice, made themselves much respected, and no
man who pretends to know anything of the merits
OF the various crews encamped about this lake, If
attempting to forecast the result of the great
fight to-day, would for one moment. II asked to
name the first four crews the homestretch,
or even the first three, think OF Omttting Har-
ward. All of her men but one are large and tan
and shapeiy, and that one is large enough. They
are brown and hearty, and noticeablv free from
the lean and hungry look 30 common among rae.
ing crews in former years. for both last
year and this these men used their reason in the
matter OF diet and you Will find their table
good and liberal fare. How they came out last
year has already been shown, and the four best
just graduated this month. and two OF the three,
Messrs. Dana and Goodwin, will probably join the
Columbia Law school IN the fall, where they will
meet, Columbia man told me- recently, some OF
Columoias best men, and may make up Q crew
tnere-tnougn 1t is more likely that they VIII pull