The New York herald., 1874-07-16
Saratoga Likely to Prove the Amer.
ican Putney to MOrtlake.
THE CREWS OF "a.
Their Colleges, Records, Weights,
Ages and Glasses.
RULES OF To-DAYs REGATTA
THE FINAL PREPARATIONS.

SARATOGA SPRINGS, July H. 1SA
Tonight the finishing touches of the crews are
going on, and Trinity has finished one OF her
member starboard stroke. Hooper-e1ectually.
What ailed him is easy to understand. He did not
know how to row. SO his captain sent him homo
and put in his place Mr. O. @ Bulkley, believe, Of
Lebanon. N. H., OF the class of1s7A and who weighs
about 15O pounds. II the real ground OF excom.
municating Hooper was that he did not know how
to row. and there is little doubs Of It, It would, II
Justice were done all round, be risky for
some other OF Trinity's peD. They have very
bad habit Of scraping the lower edge OF the oar
along the water as they reach out TO recover. 1t
can do no possible good, and really does mucn
harm, for the friction slows the progress very
noticeably splashes water and looks badly.
little more care in featherng high would soon re.
move the defect, but 1t Is too late now TO hope for
any change.
THE LAST IN THE RACE
For men interested In that end Of the race
there Is mucn lively talk as to whether
Trinity or Princeton will snatch away from
williams the honor which she right fully
earned last year OF coming In last
Princeton works more smoothly than Trinity
but has not the power, though, I think, unless
Trinity go much faster than she looked to this
afternoon, Princeton will PROBABLY beat her. and
Williams beat them botn Princeton, by the way,
went apparently over the course and her time was
taken about pom. 10s., allowing say minute for
the ripple the water. Her performance has
hardly hlled with CONSERVATION the hearts OF the
saucy Wesleyans or the Fish Creek boating men OF
Yale. l. was very
LIVELY ON THE LAKE,
and while most OF the SPECTATORS were on at the
ball match the crews were out, as they ough: to
be. Princeton, as We have said, pulled
down from Snake Hill On time Yale was
lodging about here and there, now pulling
q little piece, then stopping and a few
words from Cook would skip along over the water.
and then of they would go again. They certainly
are getting their heads back better every day and
rowing more as oxford used TO- One Of their mum.
Der NO. 81 encases his head In a white handker-
chief, and as the others do not wear one you can
single him out from afar. Cook pulls his oar
finely through the water and has much dash in his
work. There Is no man in the boat whose work Is
very faulty. Little bad points are scattered here
and there, but taken as a whole they row undeni-
ably well and the boat just spins along over the
water. AS they never rise above thirty-four
strokes a minute the boat has more time to travel
between strokes, so that the distance between the
sviris thrown or from the oars is greater than 1t
used to be in the old days OF lorty-odd TO the min
ute The time she takes to pass you and get away
down to Moons seems hardly minute, and yet
the distance would make nole III nan q nile.
Actually the
YALE UNIVERSITY CREW
40 not look as large as their own Freshmen, but
then the Freshmen are noticeably burly set and
have the plumpness one may have at nineteen,
but without the toughness; that you must wait
for until you are twensy-three. II Yale can row
that erect, strong back and egstroKe all over the
three miles she will stand good chance OF winning,
but to hold ones self up high and sti must be no
play on hot afternoon, after you have done IL
over two whole miles. Their boat seemed to hold
them up easily and to ride over the water rather
than through It. The man in the boat whom YOU
viii notice occasionally little out ofswng is No. g.
but 1t Is not much. John Bign told me
that he did not like their rowing but then he puts
his blade In still In the old way, and has none o.
this "extra English" Now over on the wes
Shore little above Moons, shoots out from raj
which Is pretty well under water racing six
cared outrigger, every man in 1t brown as nut
There are the two fellows l saw yesterday swim
along the road In their nannels bsreheaded an
with their sleeves rolled up. Among them Is on
OF the toughest men on this lake shore, and a
handy In the boat as you would wish TO see q man
for the boat
BELONGS TO THE wEsLBYANs,
ana that is Eustis. thel cheeU stroke. He H bu