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

THE CREW OF DARTMOUTH
A POWERFUL CREw-MUsCLE AND ENDURANCE
WITHOUT sCIENCE-RYLATIvR MERITS or TIE
CREws-YALE's CHANCES GENERALLY CoNsip-
ERED THE BEST.
,rpov SPECIAL CORE .roxDEsr OF THE TRIMMED
SARATOGA, July Cone of tho nepf.e"
Dartmouth oarsnen when asked to describe
the Dartmouth style of pulling, said 7"
WAS to dip the oar. pull like the III
formal regions. and repeat" They faithfully. per-
formed this operation last year throughout the race
pulling short, choppng, and most exhanSiihg
stroke of from 40 to "A per minute without any APP
parent sackening from start to finish. lhai p'"n
has now been modified somewhat, but they SUI pun
ono of the quickest strokes in the hcld this year,
running up to 80 strokes on a spirit am aira"
that their claim to be considered really scientific
crew is only shade better than 1t was i'S.
year. Their boat-house is On the east
side Of the lake, about half way from the
Brpgs Uonsc at the head of the lake, to the Cor
nell quarters at Snake Hill. The road along ms
shore TO the Sulphur Spring, five miles or th're-
abouts has been very much improved dnrlhg 'nc
Winter, and j. now the favorlte drive "i iasi,'"
1t skirts the very edge OF the water. anu 'il""S "
snlcudid survey of the course. over the Dartmouth
boat-house which stands low on the gravel pea'N'
fine read skirts the edge of the bluff. Ii is the meet
from the Cornell quarters or from Sulphur Spnng 10
fine Briggs House, when the splendid teams from
Congress Hall and the CLAIR ndon dash by him. Dear
ing pompous money kings III purple and me hheh
and bellies in rouge and millinery with every deN'o
of art has only TO tuin his head to see through .Ho
trees beneath him. in boat or on float, the prihhiNc
man himself brown. lean, muscular. ila'IosS
and clad in a pair of ragged TRUNKS
happened along Saturday. just after the Ncw-iiahp
shire men came in from their upset. Soih'io" Tue!
had timed over ia the middle oi the COURSE Iho'l
friend, say the practico-shcll had hole IN II ana
took in water enough to tip her over, but the od
boa.man is OF the opinion that they unwltthsly ran
into one Of the hag. which buoy their course, and
were sub, crted thereby They were i'll the water I'D
minutes. however they got there III the first place.
and if the Cornell Freshmen hid not gone ont to
them in a gig might perhaps be there yet.
Much has been expected from this crew. for the
reason that they have four of last years men. the
largest number in any crew except Yale, now that
MIR Barker is not of the Williams crew. This i. II
point Of vast importance, and many colleges are
making il an object 10 select their new men. a. lar
rs l,os>ihlc from the Freshman Class that they may
he veterans for the next ycu, whatever theN
do thiS season. The Columbia crew OF last
wear could not possibly have reached its perfection
of stroke with SIX tiic majority OF whom wcro new
men and the Perfection which Yale has attained
both this year nd Last could never be reached by Il
new crew i'm a single seaoon Dartmouth, however
j., much in need Of good coaching. They have
learned not little III their tvo years experience III
fine T. ratta but have mach yet 80 learn, and ac-
luov,Iedge tha; il is so. The following are Their