The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-07
PREPARING FOR THE RACE.
The Crews Of the Universities
at Their Practice Work.
Columbia, Dartmouth and
Princeton Reviewed.
Yale Energetic and Vigorous and
Still the Favorite.
SARATOGA LAKE. July s, 1875.


which skirt the waters Of Lake Saratoga AT
new hotel, built close by the bridge, at the lower
end OF the lake and on the very edge OF the water,
old Yale has set up It's standard.
The dark blue the Distinguishing color OF Yale
is the piazza, everywhere about, and you
know that this must be Cooks headquarters
Stepping out on a little pier steamer awaits you,
thirty or forty feet long, Astounding with bunt-
ing, Wheeling seriously, as do all such craft,
and made fast to large and comfort
able noat supplied with chairs and camp
stools and sheltered by an awning. You
step aboard with twenty other passengers lum-
Der and other freight is piled mp aft, the whistle
shreks, and in moment you are OIL, heading up
the lake, a charming sheet OF water mile or
more in breadta and nve times as long. But
here is something new, for, dotted everywhere as
far as the eye can reach, you sec
BRIGHT LITTLE FLAGS
nearly two feet In length, floating gayly from
rods standing three four feet above the water.
Look little closer aud order and system begin TO
appear. The outmost your right is the rich
shade whi.n comes from blending blue and
red. the royal purple OF Williams, while,
following VITA your eye TO the lett. you find every
color OF the rainbow until You come TO the bright
and shining crim"o on, the battle nag OF Harvard.
Away or up the lake far out OF eyeshot run long
rows of these 1ags, all In parallel lines, hundred
feet apart and set at intervals OF six hundred and
sixty feet. These are
THE FAMOUS LANES
which are to work a revolution In American row.
Ing. without which Captain Cook. OF Yale. says he
would not have liked to row the race OF Wednes-
day week. and which give to each crew canal q
hundred feet wide, ample room for any stee man
fit for the post OF bow or University six TO take
his boat over in at racing speed. 1t VIII be recalled
that right after the disastrous inierlock OF last
summer, by which whole years work OF two of
the very best crews was. practically thrown away,
the suggestion oil this plan OF laning the course
appeared first in the nERALD. While a long stride
has thus been made in the right direction, there
are some things yet to be done to which ateat ton
| will be called later In the week.
THE CREWS AT PRACTICE.
You are scarcely well away till an object ap-
pears some distance up the course evidently NOV
! ing. 1t Is nesn-colored maybe with init OF some
other shade at Its top, and, as you come nearer
! you see, at swift Intervals, long oars
projecting from It's sides. their wet looms
cleaning with the water dropping from
them, while their blades catch the water
thirty odd times to the minute 1t is sIx-o cared
crew. on the heads Of the two after men are
handkerchefs OF red-whether The Harvard GRIM
son the lighter comedian from Cayuga, you can
hardly say-while the other Tour either wear only
not the crew or either Cornell Harvard, bus
tie one which ought to wear the green,
THE NEW HAMPSHIRE TEAM FROM DARTMOUTH
Aud how do they row. Our report has 1t that
while in previous years opulent in power the
pick of all the crews in stature and bone aud
snew, they invariably threw away their chances
OF success by overtralning and understand
ing nothing OF the art OF rowing.n
TINS year they have taken a new de-
mar q
| q science and not as a matter OF strength alone
that the stroke Is thought TO resemble that prac-
| tIsed on The cam; that the water is caught hard
| at the beginning or the stroke, and the slide on
the Siding seats Is but hall OF the usual length"
That the stroke they have thus adopted Is wise
one may be true enough, but they stand wofuy
IN need of coaching. The bow especially is a
hardly swaying at all, and his arms which are
not strkinsly powerful, doing about all the work,
as he passed he was not doing his best;
but it has been 80 twice now, and as
each wod %e seem as 10 81
Besides good oarsman ought never to do
slovenly work. no matter what the pace. Two
better. Neither began TO get his weight on to the
oar, and the boat labored hard as sne Went along.
| There rs no snap no spring, ABOUT tue work, and
1t seems nard to see such tough good looking men
so unfamiliar with some even of the rudimenis OF
rowing. Put a man Ike Cook or Nicoll over them
! for one week. ana ne cOuu reduce their time in
the race by nearly, II not all Of thirty seconds.
| Coaching, not power, Is what they want, and as
| Dartmouth has never Jet shown marked sSill at
! rowing IL would be handsome thing II
! one of the successful captains wuald nave com
passion on them, and as Mr.. Morrison, OF oxford.
| did with Cambridge after sne had suffered many
] years OF Incessant but honorable defeat, show
them the path TO victory.
A MIsHAP.
BY the way, mlshap DeIel them on saturday
Afternoon winch rsked both lie and property
ana might have thrown them entirely out OF the
race. A breeze. which had been promising TO
come during the late forenoon, sprung up by mtd-
day ana frcsnened into what just suited toe lew
salboats wnlcn pervade these parts out made
coarse work for the rOwers. Waves a loot and
half or two high went rolling down the
! lake. and three OF them lighting on Dartmouths
crew short distance from land broke clean over
their boat dor these boats are hardly eight inches
out oil water ana swamped her. Dy littlc timely
aid all got safe 10 the shore. such thing would
| hardly have happened 10 an experienced crew,
Tor they would nave been provided with long
Stats of WOOD OF about the thickness OF snnglc
five or SIX inches wide, 10 hasten horizontally
on the top oil their washbOards, and, so by ndring
outwards, keep the waves from breaking over
STILL THEY COME.
While looking at Dartmouth other crews heave
! in sight and soon you see them Gartlng about In
along at q good pace, evidently attending 10 their
! work and passing rapidly down the course. These
! nave the most onerous task OF ALL 10 mold The
/ coveted prize which their predecessors Cf last
THE FAMOUS MEN OF COLUMBIA.
| Evidently they have been here for some time,
as their shirts, once waite, have lately seen no
wasntuD, hut in this they are not particular, and
somehow the CRIME OF honest labor lnstis con-
1dence which does not make you dislike the soiled
setTng the stroke does MS work capitaly
and you begin 70 think that may be for second
time the prize Will come to the New Workers.
lIut how IS he backed upf Not so well as he
DiIht be. Not well as was MS captain last year.
Five men nave gone, every one good one and
four OF them excellent. Without any stfiklnEy
weak ones IN the new team, one and, IN TACT, two
OF them. would narelJ he called strong; AS the
crew pass at fine speed there is hardly power
enough 10 cause tue confidence when came so
suddenly, but surely late IN the day last year,
Mr. Rees, Their ola captain, Is with hem ana goes
out as coXSwan In "a palr-0ar, helping, coaching
and suggesting.
Columbia, like Princeton, deserves credit for
not being afraid OF the weather. In their SIX
cared outrigRer Van Am named apparently out
OF compliment TO their professor Van Amrlnge,
| who mas 80 Interested himself In their wellare)
they TOOK nard row among the nign waves on
Saturday shipping two or three barrels OF water.
There Is not the advantage taken In the lulls OF
windy day or IN the sheltered bays and lnlets
where smooth water Is sure that there might ne
Captain COOK SHOWS mis- generalsnlp DI locating
near the bridge over Fish Greek ana practising
ms crew nYer us secluded and cOmparatlYelY