New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-07-09
THE CREW.

This is a State as wei as a college crew. 1--WE
mon out Of the ,ix are from Nc"-lanp'hifc. ana
Mr Ea;on the bow. is fr IN Massachusetts, just over
the Ncw-,iampshiro border. Il Il 4 Granite State
crew through and through and II l. sud ihat al
over N,w-liampshrc il is considered = settled thing
that Dartmouth il 10 win thc race this ycdr Mr..
Eaton is six-foOtci like the rest Of them. miss
inc the full six by inconsidcrabe fraction OF an
inch only. Chest and arm are moderately laI3r, and
the whole structure is that ola tough, strlngy Young
man. with very few signs of the gymnasium Natural
Symmetrical Strength, AID tongh, well distributed
musc es. That present special points for de>rIp-
ton are III, characteristics. and those of the entire
crew. LARGE. strong young men of rugged health
thny AL are and fr,t-ratc material fora boat crew.
Mr. MITCHELL at No. :. i. now and .,as lSt yral one
OF the finest specimens al on the lake
He is a fraction over the six feet, win inagnh-
cent lungs. and even in training. las the rl1dy,
fl-LloolDd English look which apt tome the greet
want OF these bg determined Yankee. Nj. Frost.
No. T. is one of the new mcu iir Wallace, No. .,
being the other. Nv. Frost is ncaIly two inches
the SIX feet, and has big chest His black side
wlislcrs are a. good flag 10 distinguish the
Dart.uouths by. Wncn all other signs fill, SOME
body fcirrts cu No. Is -idc VAisl.iis through lis
spy-el.S, and fc spectator SHOWS indie Il that is
Dartmouth. Mr.. Robinson, No ) and captain, is
tough and stringy man Of 80 pounds. and ay very
useful oarman. Mr. Eager. the stroke appears to be
slender. and is half inch over six feet, but he
weighs nearly $50 pounds.
DAErMOyTH's POOR METHOD.
Harvard has "a splendid crew of BIZ men THIS year.
from ci:J ana country. Prnceoh has The fine, sci
of trained gyiunasis that have appeared Tor years
but a good many OF the best judges think this Dart
mouth crew i, physica ~ IN, bcs, oa the lake For
mingled energy and endurance they certainly are
hard 10 beat. They have the advantage OF Column
bia in maturity, averaging - years to Columbia's
~ aAd arc of the most uniform crews in
size, age, and bu.ld, Nh Robinson. their light
weight, being really equal 10 a man ten pounds
heavier account of his peculiar build. heard
Yale man say that more good men for could
be picked from Dartmouth than from Yale. They
have there Il class of mature men of large and
stubborn breed, which has written it., record for
brain and on the pages of American history
YET with all this nobody outside OF New Hampshire
thinks that Dartmouth will be the first crew this
wear. whatever she may do hereafter. In the
fr,t pace the stroke does not amount 10 much.
They pnil, as before stated. about 81: squirting
3s Ibey recover or 90 forward siOwly-so far tie
stroke is good They strike the water sharply
which il good asain; but the snlc back is only four
inches: and there is tendency in pulling 10 round
the shoulders and pull with the arms finishing the
stroke in Il hurry. 1t seems to be common sense that
it would be better to put the full strength at the
legs by "A longer slide, and Of The back by "A long
stroke and deliberate finish, saving time If neces-
sary by shooting the out as soon ~ the hillsh
i, made in the Columbia style. Tie universal tes-
timony of crews which do this il tina, ~ strokes are
all they can pail in minute. This year Dartmouth
comes down from II TO IS strokes EcXt year she
may drop from - to ~.
In pulling this stroke though the boat seems to
move rapidly under them the six present an appear
ancc which have heard criticised az ragged and
which certainly is not what has been expected of
Dartmouth, and a new boat and the absence of one
or two men accounts for il only III part In short If
strength wins the race Dartmouth has iirs-class
chance if il is skill that Is to decide it, it is bold
man who backs her for the first boat.
TIE WINNING CREW.
Last year the general opinion at the lake settled
pretty nearly on the crews which to win. IL
has always been thought by many perfectly dspas-
sionate observers that Yale would have won last
year. if she had had chance. Throw out Yale. and
the boating came pretty close III predicting the
general standing Of the crews.
This ycaT they put ale first at the present time;
Columbia and Harvard in the second range. with
pcrhap, Williams, which having just arrived to-day
is not fully placed. Then Wesleyan. Cornell. Dart
mouth, and Princeton, in perhaps the order named.
though Irincetons own men are excessively conf
dent Of the crew taking much higher place.