New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-07-15

would be public misfortune however, unless Cor
nell passes a vote to change her colors.
Carnelian is not color properly speaking. az ALL
and in approximating to the hue Of the Carnelian
| stone they have chosen a mean and brickisb red.
which blue shirt, is irresistbly suggestive OK
| n country ball nine, or a party Of railroad con-
structors. 1t looks too much like business alto
gether The wretched pun suggested on Cornell and
Carnelian is purchased dearly.
In regard TO this question Of the prevalent color
next year. a good many people are thinking IN a
quiet way that il will be lavender. Some are hgur-
ing on time Just now. 1t is generally rumored that
Wesleyan went ever the course the other day IN
seventeen minutes and twenty-four seconds p7:24,
while Harvard required seventeen minutes and
twenty-eight seconds Tres to do the same distance
in. This is true and both were timed by the same
watch and same man from the shore, but another
watch and another man from another point made
the time of Harvard IS minutes 10 seconds and Wes-
leyan about the Little reliance can be placed
at present on any time not taken in the boat, and
hot irons would not dig that out of crew TIL the
race is over
The Wesleyans are better and their friends hope
full. Men are always very delicate at this period of
training; but they bob up and down this year with
unprecedented and surprising rapidity, and it may
be calculated with some certainty that every
all of its men In state Of dangerous sickness
when they entered the race. The line az the finish
is diagonal To the last degree. and Harvards boat
either is OF will be strained before the race owing
to cruel fate having deprived them OF a barge for
practice. Yale has suffered for want Of
a pair oar which they ought 10 have
had. Dartmouth has lost her substitute. and
a good crop of reasons why each boat Will
not have beaten the race planted and growing
ready for use The disasters of poor Williams are
too apt 10 be real. aud only yesterday IN trying to
run under a bridge. she broke her rudder in the
most unmistakabe manner, diminishing thereby 20
a greater or less extent chance already SLIM The
weather to-day is pleasant and not too windy for
practice so a good days practice may be expected
on the lake. The baseball match between Yale and
Harvard. which was postponed yesterday. takes
place this afternoon if rain does not come mp
and prevent. The foOt-races in the hands
Of an active and efficient committee,
consisting of Messrs w. II. Eustis Of Cornell, and
Webb of Wesleyan. promise to excite much more in
than last year. The fifty cents admission 10 the
grounds on the occasion is TO be divided among the
crewsi represented an cement which viii tend
to promote entries. Goodwin, Bacon and Morse of
Harvard will probably enter for the threemile run.
and b. r. Curtis of Harvard. and r. W. Van Bos-
kerck, who is, | believe. from Princeton. for the
hundred yard heat.
Yesterday witnessed the most numerous arrival
ever known at Saratoga on Monday, and Sarato-
eians delighted, have forgotten the bad weather.
and ceased to blaspheme the comet as the cause OF
their woes