The New York herald., 1875-07-14

done all she could By what she has done,
though likely 20 prove very swift over the first
to doubt whether before the second is over and
particularly the third, sue Will be any better than
best she and Columbia win PROBABLY be neighSors
at the finish. what looks mucn ike IL is that It Is
said that the Columoians regard this years course
as but two seconds longer than last. This looks
If perhaps they had covered 1t witnln that
time. The time they claim for last year Is 16m.
42s. II they can do 1t now In 16m. 44hs. the race
is almost certainly theirs. whatever the fact,
In no way, as just before the race last summer,
have they shown themselves likely TO win, and It
is probable that they will nave 10 leave two places
ABOVE them In other hands.
IN WHOSE HANDS
is the question. One OF them almost certainly In
Corneips To-day her Freshmen showed that they
had learned how to row and low 20 stay lass all
over tne course; Tney made better time than the
snow tomorrow, and yet they have above them In
the university outrgRer six men wno can surely
perch on Snake Hill, taxing tie practice time OF
nearly every other crew ana hiding Wen their
STn out az s II an WA, tua%
other, who, though clipping the beginning
ana showing some other rougnnesses, row yet
with splendid dasn and spring. who, though or
not mucn above Ihe middle weight, are known to
be very strong and enduring, and VINO are said to
have covered the course In lem. 62s. II they can
do that tomorrow either Yale and Harvard are
faster than their rowing has thus far SHOWN or the
race Will be Cornelps and II may be hers In any
case, even II they are so fast.
YALE,
last night In secluded part OF the lake, sud-
denly from ner usual twenty tynlne or thirty strokes
o minutes shot up 10 thirty i've. and held 1t ior
long distance. II this IS ner pace, then she
has shaken out reef that may make botn
Cornell and Harvard very sorrowful. And
what looks much as II this were the fact Is the In-
difference OF the time made by her in her only two
daylight trial trips made slnce here, apparently
at racing speed over the whole course. II these
showed the best she could do, when Is hardly
possible, then she will be neither first nor second
but almost certainly they ala not. And yet IL IS
difncult to see how Mr. Cook could take man
well known Ia boating circles, OF to quiet cor
ner and ask how IL was that the best Yale could
these ngures were certainly about all she showed
on saturday; even today's Freshmen have
beaten that by almost minute and
H. after all, she will win the race, and In faster
time than Cornell has made, tnen her captain
together with rowing better than any other man
here, has, since his arrival. certainly shown su-
perb genelaiship.
II Harvard can win it Will be not by rowing
more thoroughly or better than Yale, not by being
OF tougher hDre tnan Cornell OF Columbia, but
mainly ny having her men equally well trained
and having more beef in the boat. The last mile
Is hkely 70 90 the work, and II Yale Is beaten at
all sne VIII tncn learn too late that putting Hall
10 crew Already none too heavy has
lghiened IL too much, and that merely
oSnasn oSdng =. .ne pest roning among thirtee n
that she can surely lead them ali. Harvards
strOke oar Is az least as enduring as his prede-
cessor, and IN ell probability Is more 80. In the
race over the last nall OF the course neither team
last year could ialry snow OF what tt was made,
fale would nave beaten both Harvard ana Col
umDa, wlll, should sne lose tomorrow, be rem
dered all the more Improbable. Yale has rtainly
been interrupted more In her training. and so II