New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-07

ten years 1b IeeDle W1tneeS. Dut tIc stiUng WIZ
ness is the tremendous enthusiasm with which the
whole college world has thrown itself into this
sport of rowing which fills the lungs with the air OF
heaven, pours sunshine on the pale cheek, spreads
the narrow chest rounds the lank limbs and feeds
every nerve of mind and body with energy.
| In Columbia, according to Prof. Van Amringe.
boating has been noticed also to have invaluable
effects upon the habits and morale of the students as
well as upon their physique. Men who take to boat
ing, he says acquire ambition to excel in it.
They want to get in the Regatta crew. In order to
do this they must discipline themselves. No more
| barrOOm; no more beer; no more smoking; no more
dancing with the girls till or o'clock in the morn
| ing. If man who is working for the crew does
these things, somebody else will be chosen in his
place on the crew. and he knows it, and therefore
does not do them. On these grounds the faculty of
Columbia have not hesitated to cooperate heartily
with the students in all their Regatta plans.
The proximity of the Harlem River is another ad-
vantage which Columbia has. There the students
in the midst of the largest rowing settlement in
| this country; they are constantly under the eyes
and advice of their graduate friends and stimu-
lated and instructed by the presence of a host of
oarsmen All this being true, it is not surprising to
find that Columbia has this year turned out another
magnificent crew.
A MAGNIFICENT CREW.
A light wind was blowing when l visited them
just enough to make ripple and test an oarsmans
skill little-and after watching them pull under
the bridge, they met again at their boat-hOuse
whittier they were compelled to return for repairs
Mr.. Spraguc, who steers with his feet, having let
off "a little too much steam" on his tendon Achilles
and smashed one of his rudder wires. They sat as
follows and, barring accidents will pull in the race
in the same positions:
Bow 1ryingsprasu ag e. 1 Isl ls7
uG Marpy JNr' 3 iSs
AS they not as yet in high training the muscu-
lar points are not conspicuous in any of the men ex
cept Mr.. Goodwin. Mr.. Sprague the bow, is very
soldly built and his lighter weight is due to his be-
ing from to six inches shorter than the others
Except Mr. Boyd, the gentlemen in this crew are
rather meat and cleanmade in the Leg than large
which Lord Bacon declares to be Of the signs OF
a lOng-lived man. Mr.. Boyd, hasten to add, is
cean-nade and large too. Mr.. Sprague has an
eragc arm, a good 39-inch chest and square, mus
cuar back. lie is New-York boy, member OF the
College class Of '7G, and stands feet inches in
hight. He has pulled OH the Harlem before he
joined this crew, and has minor bad habits OF
rowing which he will have time to outgrow, and
which he is taking great pains to overcome lie
might keep his elbows down little more, and the
old boatman says he pulls too much out of the boat,
and that when the boat rolls, which she rarely does,
ii is his fault.
No. 2, Mr. Sage, is of wiry and nervous make,
with aspect of high health like all the rest of tue
crew. No fault is to be found with his style of
handling his oar, and he is very promising man in
deed. His 1877 pounds weight are well put on, and
he will not lose much of it in training. Mr.. Sage is
q New Yorker, hailing from Spuyten Duyvil, is 20
years of age-though he looks Older feet IL
inches in hight and belongs TO the Glass of II Of
the School Of Mines.
Mr.. Murphy No. g. is the LACED man of the crew
20 Winters having scattered their trosts on the
top of his hat. He is very square, solid-Dodied
man. with 10 inches of lung measure and great de-
termination lie may be relied on to pull the killing
stroke of Columbia and do his work from " eend TO
eendr as old John Harper used to say OF his favorlte
horses. Mr.. Murphy comes from rowing county
being citizen OF Middlet0wn, Conn.,, where the
Wesleyans come from. lie was. however, totally
inexperienced as an Oarsman; but is steadily and
surely mastering the stroke. He stands feet 8,
and is School of Mines man, Glass of IT.
Mr. g. NJ. Hammond is handsome boy of Is
years, six feet and two inches high, lG7 pounds Ill
weight lie is an American all over, and has as
pretty set Of round boys muscles as one would
wish to see. Mr.. Hammond is beautiful oarsman
already and if he does not try to tram too 1as ana
work of too much flesh, will be terrible fellow III
a month OF two. He is a New-York boy son OF
DIR. w. A. Hammond of Fifty-fourtl-st., and Is
another School of Mines representative from the
Class Of rs.
The remarkable physique in this crew is that OF
Mr. BOYD, No. s. He weighs 1873 pounds,
is six feet and all inch high, and is only ~
years old and he certainly is specimen of strength
| a oh f,.xy
sent to this regatta His forearm is over Is inches,
and the muscles back of his shoulders are enormous
When few weeks of training have brought him
down little, Mr.. Boyd will be splendid specimen
of muscular beauty and vigor.
Mr.. Goodwin, the stroke and captain, is an old ac-
ouaintance being the only man left OF last years
crew. said of him then: 1" Mr.. Goodwin Is very
valuable acquisition TO this crew. He handles his
oar extremely WELL pulls hard, and came back after
his six miles as fresh as he went out. lie has the
right points for boating man, is strong in the legs
well built up, and full of muscle about the middle
He is not large man. but strikes me as an exceed
ipgly good one who will pull harder at 15S pounds
than some men in the race will at 40. He is Mas
sachusetts man. and the only one of the crew not
New-Yorker. He is dark, burns brown, and looks
extremely tough though nOwse overturned. lie Is
80, and stands 3 feet IL inches high. HIS chest
measures 80, though that is matter OF little sig
nificance either way, as the kind of work which de-
velops sound wind is not the same as that which
raises large muscles ON the breast and the presence
of one is by no means sign of the other" Mr.
Goodwin is a splendid Oarsman now, and pulls
stroke which seems almost perfect. He has great
nerve and staying power. Prof. Van Amringe says :
His characteristic is that he can squirt for three
miles and not feel it, That is what was done by Co
lumbia last year they spurted from start to finish
Mr. Goodwin is the man to do it again, and if his
crew can live up to the stroke it is going to be job
for somebody 10 beat them"
TIE STROKE.