New-York tribune., 1874-07-20
TIE UNIVERSITY BO1TPACE

The sensible conclusion by which the Regatta
was fixed for Saturday morning the pleasant
weather which rewarded that judicious meas
ure, and the spirited and brilliant race which
crowned the training and rowing of the year,
have probably saved the University meeting
to Saratoga in future. There are so many
positive advantages i'll having the boat-race
take place upon Saratoga Lake, that it would
have been matter of sincere regret II the
unwise action of Thursday and Friday
had been followed up on Saturday, ana
had sent away at the end OF the
week disappointed and angry crowd, agreeing
in nothing except as to the unftness OF Sara
tOga for a University race. The contest on
Saturday morning, so fully and graphically
described in columns to-day, was the
complete justification of the choice OF local
ity. Nothing more convenient or more PIC
turesQue could well be imagined than tins
beautiful lake, for the purposes of gre",
intercollegiate Regatta
Tue fact that our NewYork crew bore off
the honors Of the day is especially gratifying
to us, and we believe 1t is not peculiarly dis
tasteful to our neighbOrs. The young gentle
men who so CALAMITY carried the blue and
white of Columbia College over the lake to
victory on Saturday, had previously gained
not only the good opinion of amateurs, but
what is Of more Importance, the good will OF
everybody. There is never any rancOr felt in
regard 70 the social successes of debutantc,
and something of this feeling of sympathetic
admiration was acquired by the young repre-
sentatives of the metropolis, who came so late
into the field of aquatic sports, and have won
so brilliant and legitimate a triumph. 1t is
true that some of the crews from colleges
with longer tradition of rowing may talk of
the fortune of the innocent, and explain how
under different circumstances the result might
not have been the same. But the vast crowd
which hailed the success of the New Orkers
gave their plaudits not to any luck or caprice
of circumstance, but to genuine merit and
uncomprOmising hard work. The older racing
clubs bear no malice, and the younger ones
will take new courage from this day, which
has shown them that there is nothing to fear
from tradition or the shadow of name, if
they will but put into their training the
muscle and the intelligence which compel
victory.
1t will be generally regretted that the pleas
a collision between the two crews which hold
the highest rank in our racing annals. We
give all that is known of the matter in dis
pute between them, from which it may appear
that neither is completely blameless. The
trouble from the beginning, it is worth OBJ
serving, arose from a cherished hostility,
latent in both boats, which only required a
pretext to burst into a blaze. We will not
admit that this lost them their chance of vic
tory, for this would be unjust to the victors
But tho public will be apt to say that the
reported scene upon the lake was not in ac-
cordance with the often quoted classic line
which tells us that learning "softens the
"manners and does not permit them to be
"fierce.n Rivalry is wholesome and gentle
manlke, but hostility should not exist among
scholars