The New York herald., 1874-07-17

THEY'LL postpone it till nearer evening, ~ said
houhg PROBABILITIES, when the sun sinks low and
I'm so glad 1t blows" said Miss Take No Care,
TOT now Wen see the race and keep cool, tOo.n
| PRESIDENT GRANT AND RACES.
| me PRESIDENT OF the United States took the deep
est interest IN the subject and ali that related TO
DAY rom private tent on Moon n's grounds which
ne pronounced to be as pretty thing and az fair
gave his consent to students reception for Fri
| day night. He did this because he overheard a
young fellow say one evening on the porch OF
~ have not got look at the President yet, and
! inaven'l done anything else but hunt for him.
Cohiound IL never saw any President OF the
United states"
Miss Miss DreXel or one OF the other ladies' remarked,
"Thats shame" No objection was then made
10 10 W1at must Oe rather hot and tedious recep-
ton performance.
The Presidents trip to Saratoga is to be stay.
ing tiine After several summers OF monotonOus
society at Long Brancn, the enervescence OF
| where the season, nOltng in on the regatta, has
passed all prior times or numbers and Tor variety.
More youth and more age ana less middle life il
| seen at saratoga thls year than ever before The
Riris ana the old LADIES' are competitors the col
iege boys and their grandsres. 1t appears that
| oil either
To-day, betmes, the Presidential party were
lake. Behind them preparations were gong
ior tne grand oalis at the three hotels, which were
10 be conducted In communication and without
charge. Truly 1t was saratoga's great occasion.
AT THE LAKE.
crews in their comfortan,e ana new boannnses
| all bathed and rubbed hainakedly gong 10 and
! mo, ollng little, mending a rOwlock. adjusting
a rudder, little disposed to be communicative
! even with eacn other lest some OF the nervous
force and vitality needed for the latter part OF
| the day should be dlsslpaed.
There was Williams, most beset and bedevilied
o. ali by visitors, yet taking 1t pllflosophicay
Their boathouse is Moons tenpin alley and thou
sands-yea, ten thousand people were all day
peeping In, asking questions and looking at the
singular things In when the moderns row-a
coffin apparently containing some machinery OF
torture and set inside sword FISH.
la, Aunt Matilda, 1t Is made out OF cigar boxes.
Did you everf l should never think this a
boat"
.Yes, madame" says a mischievous college lad
too lazy W be rover, at weighs liO pounds. We
steer 1t with our Ieet and tell the way to go by
on the aIricular wave. There Is iine Tor looking
over ones snOllder.o
WILLIAMS is A SMALL CREW.
/ eraQng in yourh and weight below the common.
me oow only l4l, and the stroke Gunster, OF
Pennsylvania, was the life o. the day, steadily,
carefully gong over every part OF the boat and
tackle, eyelng the men and Indifferent to inter-
ruptons OF any kind. Lons, back and arms pow
eriul a swarthy face and great ambition In other
like things, he and MS crew derived their knowl.
edge Irom graduate VINO, like many that we 6nd
this year was sent especially abroad to watcn he
English STYLE The English, indeed, have greatly
affected the old traditions OF American rowers,
both as to style OF stroke and training. Last year
thus college lost man from the crew, and he lost
his health as well. from overtraining. Next we
see,
SHADE OF JOHN WESLEY,
The Wesleyans, OF MiddetOwn, those thrifty,
self-Aelpipg and generally goJily collegans, about
loo strong VINO live like the poor scholars OIL the
early days, mending their own Dreeches, bacKing
their own boots not averse to days work IL it Is
necessary to get through college; and yet, with
! the spirit OF university they have reserved the
time or training for this regatta, and before
/ made the Untarians OF Harvard iee that the arm
OF the nesn was equal to the arm of the spirit
among class leaders, This grim, laborous, serious
crew mas been the special dread OF both Harvard
and Yale. The look IKE colts out OF Cromwes
|. lrOnsoes. They take neither purse scrip,
walk dozens oi miles IN meditation, ana arc better
ara
ronsing fellows as We see them now. reclining on
the soft side OF a plank, one being wheeiwrlght,
another brlcKlayer, third lumberman, and the
stroke Eustis is twenty seven years old, looks like
Tom Cri0b, carries beard on his chin, and looks
straight at and through you.
You fellows will get so wicked after awhile that
you'll take TO the turf YOU Wesleyans! wonder
clergyman, with twinkle, who has come up from
Round Lake Camp. lie looks however, as II he
rowing business, and says, rs he looks all over
the boat" arm them, boys; warm them If you
can"
From the Wesleyan's house we dropped in on
those dragons OF the intellectual orb
the HARvARDS,
who are to do within few hours the battle OF the
bceps ior the richest and most spirited and pOpu-
lous of our schools Nearly 1000 contributing per-
sons ana 800 students, a boat house CONTAINING
about SO boats, university club alone of 200 mem
! bels and rOwers TO row to-day who have already
appeared In champion races and who have been
disciplined with a rigOr as remarkable as it is OF
! approved prescription; such were tue conceptions
l entertained OF Harvard as passed their door.
themselves confident, believed by the best critics
and observers 10 have sure thing. and possessing
one OF Blalkies bran new boats, which arrived
but two nights ago to replace one they had
twisted they looked cool ana decided and i'm.
pressed visitors perhaps more lavorabiy than any
other college crew.
FAR DIFFERENT Is COLUMBIA
CHARTERED on a remote blun, IN red iarm house.
Tney are OF English and American coaching and q
Cambridge University man has been teaching
them from personal practice the English stroke
Their new FearOn shell is Of new and elegant make
and finish. Their names are metropolitan. as all
know who read of Rapallo Cornell and Rees They
Workers, except Goodwin, who is a Massachusetts
man. Having rOwed over the course in shorter
deal OF superstition among that large class OF
non.cOllege men who belong to New York, are an
as as 10 s ram o
lege carry the colors away, to the historic halls
where Hamilton, as lad, grew to be at once
THE PRINCETON CREW.
And now for the boys who live by the grave OF
Aaron Burr and were of the college Of the Bayards
and StOcktOns. They have practlsed on tue Della
ware and Raritan's raging canal, and are, there
taton. If they succeed senator WINDOW VIII put
new feather IN his cap Robert Bonner built
them their eoatho@se ana they & are wei on 10 boat a
expect hopefully OF their work. Old DR.. McCosh,
their projecting dominic, is regarding them with
sOme thing OF the guinness Of StOncwall Jackson
his fellow churchman. they are picked out OF
eighteen good men. well tried and contrasted.
Smith, weighing little more tnan girl, Jersey
born as he is. Three Phlladelphians, two New
IOrkeTS anu one BdlLlulOTeNH HlHke up Tie rest.
They are rather elegant fellows when out Of this
rugged wild water costume. Orange is their color
that OF the victor OF the BOyne.
"Will you fetch II, Maynard ~
"We viii fight for IT," says Maynard: and he
looks like 1t.
CORNELL
/ we visit next, powerful crew in breeding and
heft. These fellows are nearly all raftsmen or New
York, one big fellow from Illinois being the only
exception, and the stroke is from the ST. Law
renee,
"Wi you do your best, King 20
keep at 1t till they do"
! How different Is
TRINTTYS CREW,
OF Hartford EpiscOpalians, three OF whom arc Gu
rates, or priests assistants. flavor OF conscrva-
tive piety and respectaDilty underies them. Tney
are pret ttv big men. The bow oar is MinnesOtian;
so Is one other his tOwnsman. One Is from Detroit,
another from New York and third IRON Pennsy-
vania This Is, therefore, iairly Middle State
crew. They are confident, but not ovcr-expectant