New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-16

lb1 TELEGRAPH To IhlBbNE'l
SARATOGA July 15.-Hot would hardly be an ade-
qua,e name for the weather which Saratoga and all
her visitors have wrestled with to-day, in order TO
Joy themselves properly. and assign to muscle It's
Ist relationship with mind. Our best people
mOpped their brOws and groaned undergraduates
plunged into festivities at dawn and came out limp,
wrlnhIed, and damp at sunset; sweet creatures
in all sorts of coors, and with all sorts
of loyalty to all sorts of colleges. red
dened in the face and famed themselves,
and tried to be comfortable and failed; unhappy
persons set up that always vain endeavor to sur
mount the weather with cooling drinks that do not
cool; the horses painted and sweat and the drivers
cursed and swOre and. taking it altogether, there
has been mOnstrOus warm time.
The base ball victory for Yale on Tuesday, though
1t was only the first of the three games had gwen
the boys IN blue great courage and heart, and
through Tuesday night and Wednesday there were
notable indications that the young men wearing
that color were not proposing to hide their light
under a bushel. For hat-bands and badges blue has
been to-day the popular and prevailing color The
magenta OF Harvard was never scarce IN the
crowd or modestly nconspicuous. Whether this
fact due to the defeat of last year. to the lack of
interest in Saratoga regatta. being too far from
home, Or-as some put ito the breaking of railroad
connections by the Massachusetts, flood, so that a
great many Harvard men are prevented from coming
cannot say. 1t is certain though. that Harvard is
much less numerously represented IN this regatta
than in any preceding ones by graduates OF under
graduates. 1t may be that in to-mouow's crowd the
magenta will be more frequently conspicuous, as
really Harvard has had no special interest III the
boating of to-day. Tomorrow is the University
race, and it is not unlikely that the red will ont
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two universities make one pull for the palm of
superiority,
Notwithstanding all that was said last year about
SaratOgas unitness for the intercollegiate regatta,
It must be confessed by the most earnest Of those
who opposed the situation that better choice could
hardly have been made The hotel accommodations
are much more ample than at Springfield or Worces-
ter. Il write this dispatch in the midst of a great
crush at a hotel clerks desk, but then how much
better this is than sitting curbstone and writing
on your hat And there has been far nothing like
the disturbances that have invariably accompanied
the regatta heretofore have there been any OF the
usual extOrtions by hotel-keepers and hackmen. AS
for betting, where last year and on previous years
the betting was loud and aggressive, and the pool
selling open and unblushing. have hardly heard as
yet a bet offered, and certainly have known OF no
pools being sold, though presume there may have
been such goings somewhere in some quiet way
The general impression thus far Is, think, decidedly
favorable to Saratoga as the permanent place Tor
the intercollegiate regatta.
The arrangements for the first day of the regatta
have been, TO a considerable extent failure. The
crowd began to assemble two hours before noon and
increased momentarily from that time. The head
of the course is one of the most beautiful bits of
lake scenery in the country and has been the prin-
- 8 RI fprO yaa
Moons Lake House stands on the road which skirts
the northwest shore and from it the beautifully
wooded bank slopes rapidly to the water just below
Moons.
From his wharf start the official boats, and here
centers the interest Beyond to the east, is Browns
boat-house; and thence around to the grand
stand. which is on the beautiful grounds of MI
Frank Leslie there is desperate hurryng to and fro.
Booths are erected, where are sold sandwiches
"sodies,1 and the foaming lager. The priB-
cipal grand stand is first, and we
reach it from Moons by a wooden bridge. Beyond
is the students stand, divided into spaces with
swallow tail banners indicating the position OF the
partics-magenta, blue, brown, orange, and the
others. The greatest crowd musters under the blue
and the blue aud white OF Columbia IS well repre-
sented Brown and Princeton muster less numer-
ously, though both run into the hundreds. South
of the grand stand comes the stand of Mr.. Henry
Moon, and then come swamp and thicket.
Half-past three o'clock, and 5000 persons are in
and about the grand stand. No signs of a race, and
everybody thinks there will be none Every wheeled
vehicle in Saratoga, every saltwater wagon, butch
er's cart and lumber dray is crowded into the spa
cious arena in front of Moons or coming there as
fast as four legs will bring them. An excited crowd
OF thousands of students is damned along the shore
at the foot of Moons HILL and magnlhcentIy dressed
ladies trip by half dozens along the half-submerged
wooden walk which leads 10 the grand stand. The
seats there nearly full, and every point and
coign of vantage along the shore as well.
The water looks better There will be a race.
Out come the Browns, looking splendidly and in
perfect condition and pull away to the start, three
miles, in spite of rough water, which 70 the old
oarsmen seemed an unwise proceeding as bringing
them down there tired. Then more waiting, and a
little more. Great men splash about the wharf
which is submerged and one of them gets out pair
Of ancient pistols to start the boats with, looking
fierce enough to slaughter Old Probabilities on the
spot for sending such weather Appleton, the
stvlish Harvard committeeman, arrayed in q gray
flannel shirt and armed with hammer and nails,
fixes up the big white finish flag, upon which the
fate Of the day is TO turn, occasionally giving the
obtrusive observer dig In the stomach or a tread
on the toe as the crowd presses too closely upon his
operations
Cast off, comes at last. All hands pile in, and
the three boats which form the entire steam otlla
of Saratoga Lake puff away one after the other, gay
with gliding. glass. and flags, away down three
miles TO Columbias house. The three steamers pile
one after the other up against Columbas hoat, and
their passengers join the particoored crowd on the
bluffs. All the freshmen are here and ready. The
snge-scull race is to be postponed till later and
the water is now smooth the race will take place
immediately.
Can You show leg like that'r asked Nicoll,
the dashIng captain Of the Prncetons, pointing TO