The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-04-23
WORK FOR THE 0ARSMEN.
THIS YEAR To ne MADE MEMoRA-
BILE IN SPORTS on TIE WATER.
The Races TO be Uowed In Pbila dcIpbia and
Snratoan-Tbe Amateur md Professional
Contcstnnts-Formutions OF Crews.

tpIlnOul1 hCANo bthsons LUG great tDuitsls
will commence in June, and, with intermngled
races by forelln and native amateur aud profess
sional tours. will last without UGH intermis-
sion until October The notable events in their
sequence will be tho regatta Of the Harlem Re-
gatta Association, the race between Yale and
Harvard at Springfield, the College regatta at
Saratoga, the NatioDM Amateur Association re-
9atta at Philadelphia preceding the Centennial
races, lasting nearly two weeks, and the INFER
national regatta OF the Saratoea Ro wing Asso-
ton. OF especial interest will be race at Sara
toRa in August between tho nrst crews OF the
College regatta, epu 4 in number TO those Col
lege crews which come from abroad and also
an amateur regatta In tho latter part OF the
same month, under the auspices Of the
National Amateur Association, open to the anna
teur crews Of the world. For the Grst OF these
It IL certain that Cambridge and Dublin Univer-
stiles will send fours, and for the latter the Lon
don Rowing CLUB ana a Paris and Hamburg
crew can be counted upon. These races on
Saratog Lake will be straight away and all to-
rether. The matches In Philadelphia viii Of
necessity be rowed in trial heats aud on differ
ent days 1t i PROPOSED to have " wedding
out reg tia at Saratoga urinr To tile CentcnnH
races for both professionals and amateurs, aud
thus avoid trial heats Tor those events. hat
would make the 1ual contest on the SchuylkI
decisive, which 4, now artahf@d u cannot DC:
season ON June -. The Atalantls have rejoiued,
has afiaied. IL addition t. the regul,r pro-
vrdmme there will tie races Tor juuior SOULS,
double SOULS, xix cared zig, and barge ices.
THE COLLEGE oARsMEN.
The race between Yale and Harvard, to take
place on the Springfield river June 30. "a already
* itine interest. Although amateurs aud pro-
fessionals generally approve four Dared shclla,
this race Will be rowcd IN eisht-Oared shells,
even under the rigid system Of training adopted
by oxford and Cambridge, II hapoens nearly
every year that there Is y ssenger or 50 In their
! crews teiore the, race Is over, 1t Is sale 10
| predict that II viii be 80 In TINS instance. and
thar, though the race will revive the ancirnt am
| nual "hurrah.' II VIII not help the rasttme OF
rowing at either college. College students cling
! 10 customs WIN unronpueiaole ttnAlN. iar-
| Nard has a crew neiug uf2iui1ei by opt. Gus
Of last ye9r's UNIVERSITY crew, II which the ma
tetial Will be selected from the University and
| Freshman ciews OF 1875. Cook Of tale retans
the confidence ofthe Y ensi ms and Is prac ising
| hnrd with a lot. several OF whom were N the
! University crew of last wear. The trouble with
! botn crews Ia to select dtmlnutive C xswain.
In the college regatta to te held July 10 at Sar-
atogl, rImor 50. axis favoiaoly Of the chances of
| Harvard, Cornell and Columbia. Yale, Amherst,
! Tri 1itv, and Williams are Out THIS We officially,
| ana Il said Do,vaoin VIII NOT send A crew. One
reason for some ~ these COLLEGES Withdrawing
| l. the * tuse attending the getting 40 OF Y
| cared crews. which are unknown, except In The
! American colleges y good tuur-Jarec crew IL
| proportion ltcly more easily obtained. Harvard
| VIII withdraw alter this summer, unles' sucn a
! lat wear University crew,wiu pal, anu tue other
| urwili taken out Of the eisnt-oarel she'd.
III Nultu llll. l4tNiOl u utIoltsilu " hINtu
OF last wear res nnan crew nave seats. Column
bia has the same crew "a last summcr.when they
came in second. Capt. Goodwin i wording
hard Nicoll. OF Princeton, retains HE position
/ ~ Slrpke. tipf. OstrOm. Of Cornell. has with
him W-terman. u RI, ond JARVIS, w.o owed
! lasi year aud three Or folr toIghs 81 the last
| Years Freshman crew to III az lronI. Tue other
crews VIII DC eomoosed OF more crude material.
OTHER AMATEURS.
Tho regatta Of the National Amateur Associa-
! tion TO tie neld on the Scluvlkll AUGUST n. and
| the tortnis is C"nte1nial r%ins To follow early
! In SOFTEN DER, VIII uring together the bet II
/ ur q red crews and sinGle sclllers. rhe acci-
dent 70 Eidred. OF the higoBaut 2. win not pre-
vent his rowns, and the crew Viii he made up
Dunbar, 81 John Gunster, q Fl. smith. bow.
Dunbar Is one Of the crack Buffalo crew. and
tne rest are veterans Of TIE Atsies j. L. Eusts,
| y. W. koGger-, and w. II. Downs, OF the es-
leyin crews Of 1874 ana 1875, viii row tnis year.
should toe en ,rt 70 get n wei known college
rover ue unsuccessful, the vacant place In the
! waist may be nlled " A'lis johnson or Van
Riden. Down In the Kills crew IL being oryan-
lied ny the Ncptunes. Capt. Jasper 4. Goodwin.
nestIoke OF COluiuu ia.wi bee Vt IN an strohe,
and Tiwpson and B1yu oi:ihc same cole .e and
the two Kings of Council are spoken Of Tor the
| other seats. Ine Athletics will have tue follow
ing four; {. II. Coae, rlke; II. c. West, 3; l..
! :. Mack. = ; II. ". K.thborne, bow. The Ma
saus have not decided to send crew, hut may
make w one FROM such material rs Gunster,
| Montgomery, Walker, REYNOLDS. AMI watson.
| An effective four VIII be that from Union Springs,
| n. Y. Courtney, the am teur champion. and
| Robinson are up there getting READY for tours,
doubles, singl 5, and anything else where there
IL a piece OF silver to be won The Analostans
OF Washington and the POtOmacs OF GEORGE
! town. ID. c" Will also havs good fours. IL. NJ.
| Paul Of Dartmouth 1874 crew will be stroke or
| bow II tue Anliostans; C1ughlin, McBlair, and
/ Hand II OF the POtOmacs are eoOd men,
nut they oepl re tho loss ot Pop Tru 4.
Ia tho I'll arlern, LON heator a said to be getting
upa four no the Ouils aud bears Of Wall street
are Juo!lAni over "eorrer ~ rowers they pro-
pose to make up from tue Stock Exchange Row
ing Ass"clIion' hum"ts reacn rowing circles
q wonderful crews from the an Wan sums,
ID lquesnes OF Pittsburgh. Mutuals and Beaver
wNcks OF Albany. Arsunant' tanala, ara
otner clubs. On NewtOwu Creek c apt hchar!
Young, stroke Of the Aiding ons, - practcIng
with Pidgeon In tue oow,a Thomas and Payu-
ter. Across the creek the Seawannakas ire
mastering their forces.
ln single and .uOle sculIers ana pliis there
Will he d formid bic arr -. l. bat ~ DdbhL Uni
Versity val cone. Courtney, Of Union soriugs in.
VIurhle Tor two seasons past, viii enter .or
singles. and also row doubles with Robinson
v. 4. McCredy, ana r. l.. Newton, Jr Of toe
sing y. Dave Ro che and William Walsh Of The
Nautilus will row uouole. Enen I2see aud Il;
the \ gouGutas VIII row. ". Is. Curtis IS cOn-
vae-cent aud na~ paired WIN Frank Yates.
Inc az and bare races will be a MINOR yet In
teres IN feature, aud many 81 the crews pro-
pose 10 row all the way 10 Pniltdei phia ana i've
aboard curing their stay. 1ne kAcelslors have
Dexter hs CDXsW.ln. such "A novelty VIII divert
tue public. at least. :. Burrell is the bow. aud
viii take teet consisting Of IA ste am Launch, a
slOOp yacht, a rlA-oartd zig, ma "a couple OF
SHELLS through the canal to Philadelphia, ana the
Alerts and Meteor- viii SEM siX cared Ilgs ana
cOXswains. The Palisades, Ncspcrs, TnAns
Nllles. ana ht3ulutcS, Up thc river, ana luo
A'cyoues ami COlumoias Of Br- OAll II Will nearly
all appear at the Centennial.
THE PROFESSIONALS.
Among the professionals the valuable money
prizes, and the chances ~ glory la winning tho
cuampiOnshlp OF the world, nave stimulated a.
mucu ardpr as exists among The amateurs. From
h gland viii como ono crew organized oy X W.
Boyu, "n4 possibly one headed - j. III. Sadler.
BlNd VIII nave Robert Bignall, ". NlcnoisO On,
aud Robert Chambers, all famous oirsmen.
should S.nlet gct up "A crew, Bagnail James
| lallOf, and Thomas Ninship wuud be In L..
a crew upon which great tXUectatipns are based
l. Tat Of Jonn Dlglln al GreenpOiut. AT present
II consists Of Jonn Biglin, stroke; Tom Ellott,
how ami " i,i IN maxwell and Junn Pidlstea IN
the vast, but there may be a cuange. In lios-
ton the city Point end Boston cu1s are 10 We
I'VE mile race June -, To see wnicn will repre-
sent Massachusetts a. the Cent, nnidl. he Is s.
ton crew be the Blglin crew last summer and
Is composed Of George Faulkner, DOW; L. Kea-
gan, str k, with L. McGahey ana NJ Manoney
| W. j. Higgins vs. stroke ana f. Seaman bow oi
the City Point boys, WIN IL. Landry and H.
Weigel. In Pittsburgh Evan MOTIFS ~ Getting
up a crew, with William SCharn , bow. and
Kaye and Luther. lac PARIS crew OF -. johns
reoTgAulZ d, nda zone INTO training ana ouefs &c
row any four in the states a slX-miie race before
the Centennial for 5000. Anurew Brdyley Il
uusy at Halifax picking out four, and II Is 3 u
that the LJn-snores OF Portland VIII gain come
to the lrOut. Professional crews from ii an
uurg, Pdrls, aud possibly Austr"lla, Will nt
among the contestants. The Ward crew, who
XauQush d the world At Saratoga ia Is |, Will ID