The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-07-20
The BOAT RACE
SCENES IN SARATOGA.
HOW THE CREWS LOOKED.
rom the New York Herald, Friday.

| The morning broke warm and cOludy,
and almost every human being in Sara
toga immediately looked at the sky. III
seems a little soft said Commodore
Brady, .sas if there WAS going to be lit
tie southerly rain The earliest hours
ofthe day SAW people, bedleSs many OF
them all night, strolling on Broadway
and thronging around the springs 50
thicklv that the hotel servants and towns
folks with pitchers and pals could scarce
| " draw their accustomed q"aat"m OF
water. Strange people be they who are
sucked on chal ybeateS and for all Their
DAYS drink catharticS for IL household
beverage. The old inhabitants go by the
! name of sold salts" and are little more
than magnesia bottles.
Right off for the lake" say all the
voices in the air. with strong Vermont
accent-"Saratoga Lake right away!
For everybody with pair of mules, Il
| pair of wheels or an old buggy is here from
forty miles around, ready to hire out.
Yesterday, even at the Freshman race,
they charged five dollars Il head, Ortwcnty-
five dollars for little old Dearborn, and
during the day manga man recovered
the whole price Of his pair, harness and
new vehicle. To-day their expectations
we're little short Of paying off their mort
gage or building brick house. Even
hay wagon venturing into town yester-
dav was dispossessed of its load for thirty
dollars, and filled ut two dollars head
with about fifty college lads, netting the
lucky farmer hundred odd dollars, to
his great surprise. The schedule otprlces
agreed upon between the livery and team
nrople and the Regatta Association Of
Saratorn was practically done away with,
| rs the townsfilks would not take man
kind ut fifty cents head when the rus
tics readily obtained five dollars.
Wednesday night wa. rs fine II prcscn-
tation of University life rs Oxford or the
Latin Gnarter ever had to show; the "nor-
nous number Of students and alumni in
the hatbands. cockadcs and ribbons of
their Alma Mater, fairly ovcrpOwcring
the enormous number Of spectators, and
the rollckinC songs of the Yale Glec
Club poured through the open windows
Of the Town Hall, and then the same
club followed by long procession OF
Ysles men, marching down the streets
with songs, filed up into Congress Hall
81 if to serenade the President. But the
college man, nowadays, is stlckler for
his earnings.
"Why don't YOU sing one of your airs
while the people up there in the grand
stand are waiting for the gun to be fired!
said a gentleman to Il Yale choristcr.
I'VE will, gladly said the student,
without reserve, provided we are pald
for it.
Other students were cOquetting, seeking
to room with more fortunate acquaintan-
ces who had beds, nodding on the piazzaS
in chairs or visiting the springs in multi
tudes and with carclessncss of Stomachic
consequences. drinking Of every source.
\ few huzzas, rahs'-idioSyncratIc
shouts peculiar to collegcs-broke the
stiffness of the warm night rs bands OF
lads from friendly colleges passed on the
street. and Priiiceton's victory IN the
Freshman race was the theme "fno little
wonder and speculation.
"Ha, YOU Yankees cried one 70
dav. for the first time you met the MIA
die States and lost your colors. Twenty
two wears YOU have been racing ana
these Jrrseymen, who have just lraril'"
how to pull-on Il canal ut that, Tor Inc!
have no rivrr-wipc You out the hr''
time they see You.
The Jcrscymcn, So called, were con,
.picuous by the little of the jersey blood
! in them The stroke, Nicoll, who was
| the yigur and master of the crew, hailed
| from the city Of New York. Two were
western men. from Ohio and Iowa, and
one came from the most sOuthcrly point
! probably, of any rowing man IN h"th
| DAYS regattas, Campbell, of Washington,
&C. The feeling was decidedly IN favor
of the victurS everywhere. Their mod
esty. the old and Of late somewhat dihlh-
| ished
CELEBRITY OF NASSAU HAL,
the splendid Scotch and Irish stock
which has immemorially sent It's scl"n>
to Princeton, and the clean, fair, gallant
WAY in which they shot the hcmcStretrn
and "spurtcd to victory by c"nJoined
spirit, gave the older college men an idea
! that after a while, when the Johns Hop
! kinS College, the University of Virginia,
! Ann Arbor and the western schools come
to these regattas to compete, the names
Of Harvard and Yale will be heard less
boastingly.
ADVICE FROM SPORTING MAN.
1t was deemed advisable to drop in on
Mr.. Morri<>cv about ten o'clock, aS the
unquestioncd sporting encyclopedia. He
was found in his careless greyiSh white
suit. with II tanned olive skin and beard
of lustrous black, rs usual. he said
without hesitation:
its my opinion that ifyou mean I"
bet YOU take EN- in this order: First.
Harvard. That crews been timed, and
has made the course in Inn. 2Ss, which
is not as good rs either Columbia or
Wesleyan, but her men have got more
experience. They stand evener. They
are better seasoned and they are the best
to RELY on. Next | would take the Yves
leyans. They're tremendous tough and
brought up to hard work. Their Cap
, tain bosses EN- like class leader, and
they work more like men than students.
! They've made it in I'm. 24s. The third
crew in point of responsibility is Column
bia. Being New Yorker of course |
take an interest in them. They pull
! brilliantly, and I'm told they've made it