The New York herald., 1876-03-05
THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REGATTA.
WHAT WESLEYAN COLLEGE IS DoNo-rHB
PROBABILITIES STATED AS TO HER PARTIcI-
PATIoN-RAcING PROSPECTS.


PATIoN-RAcING PROSPECTS.
MIDDLErowS, March 4, 1876.
Occasionally OF late especially while the muscles OF
the STURDY athletes Of Harvard, Yale and other col
eges were receiving strength nom their exercise In
the gymnasium, the thoughts of such athletes have
turned toward Wesleyan and its ambitious men OF
might Captain Cook has two men at work, and un-
doubedy his crew for the Springfield regatta has been
selected Harvard too is working hard But wesleyan;
the only college lett to represent connectcut IN 'ne
intercollegiate Regatta at Saratoga Lake has done ana
is doing nothing. Perhaps tho case Is even little
than this Perhaps she will do nothing in 1916
far figuring the Saratoga regatta IS concerned
II this should be the case thousands OF admirers
Of the pucky she has produced
during the years OF '73, "a and 20, and
who have high hopes Of her future, VIII
be sadly disappointed The disappointment is not
wholly improbable. Thus lar there has been this pecu
liarty about wesleyan-she has left the selection Of
her for the until quite late; and thon tho
men have abandoned themselves so exclusively to
training az In other colleges The reason for this
probably Is that the faculty. although approving Of
boating rgidly exact study IRON the boating men and
frown "cuts" There has been one notable instance
OF high training Wesleyan, which Is too notorious to
make It necessary to mention dates but II was excep
tional Some of tho reasons for supposng that Wes
leyan may go TO Saratoga are
First-Captan J. W whitney, Of last years crew
who has been looked the probable Captain for 1876
undecided TO whether he Will be able TO participate
for private reasons In the race
Second-Outsdc OF Captain Whitney only three OF
the of 1875 nre IN college, viz Marsh, 1871 who
pulled in 1874 ana 1876 aud who stroke last year
Jack, 1878, and Sewell, substitute In 1873
Ihird-The men from whom the crew are TO be Sc
lected are much lighter than those OF previous years
and less "stocky" and the leaders do not 10 pull
unless there Ia "a good square chance TO win, as
Sewell states II.
Fouru-There is some discomfort with the manage
ment OF previous Saratoga regattas.
Fffh-Thero rs belief among some that even as late
as this from the indications OF dissatisfaction or lack
OF hcartness manifested by the Withdrawal OF the re-
tring New England colleges from the coming contest
there prospect of an organization IN New England
OF a association IN 1875
II the crew loses its present Captain it is evident
that will be difficult to replace him at this late hour
with a sufficiently experienced TO do justice
to the position, and there few places IN
which experience couns for more than In shell The
reason concerning Captain Whitney Individually s
perhaps powerful any affecting the regatta pros
pec although there Is considerable weight attached to
The other objections advanced About thirty
practising In the gymnasium majority work only
hour per day yct-viz, from six to seven O'Clock
in the morning few of the more enthusiastic work
about three hours. No dict is adopted by any, aud
there will be adopted until the spring term Those
who have been looked at as probable members OF the
will train down to between $50 and l60 pounds
Last year there was one man in the boat weighing
about 100. Captain Whitney, as regards an
abstemous diet and general exercise, may be
said 10 be constantly In training When ON the last
he loses only about two pounds. He Is great
believer walking, and thinks pedcsrlanism as good
ms gymnasium work. the legs being thereby strength
ened. For named hc has not trained hard.
some OF the probable crew will down from fifteen
to twenty pounds There will probably be no Fresh
man this year. Much Of the muscle for the shell
lies among the "Freshes"
As for boats, there are two University shells. The
one built by Elliot 1874, Is used in practice. There
are the boat house barge also, and each class has
good shell II IS not expected that new boat will be
built outright this year. but probably the barge
will be sold, as there Is some little fault TO be
found with it, and II Will be replaced by
another. 1t Is intended to have raco among the
classes the Connecticut early in spring. Recently
a nne silver cup received from an alumnus which
was sent prize for the crew which shall turn out in
good form the earliest
The races Will probably be rowed according to pre-
vious custom, the best two out of three beng the
victor The cup is Of Sufficient value to induce the
men to ut work early The selection OF the TO
pull at Saratoga will probably be made in about four
weeks II Captain Whitney will accept a re- election
he Will probably receive the honor.
The mention OF the English college boatmcn awakens
considerable enthusiasm; On the proposed conditions
she thinks that she will stand good chance In
her she could count Rogers r7s), Euss p74 and
| Downs (75). There Is money enough TO enable Wes-
leyan to go 10 Saratoga II she wishes II is well
| known that she wanted TO go TO New London,
| and was somewhat disappointed at the result
of the Convention in New York If she is on
| hand her quarters viii be at Arnod's, between
Princeton and Harvard. The propositions entertained
last year by the alumni OF building Wesleyan cottage
| at Saratoga has been abandoned Wesleyan leans
ard New England association, and her belief that
Very likely there Will be such ASSOCIATION 1877 has
| probably had It's influence in this matter.
Concerning the boating prospects there is little else
worth mentioning The interest IN football and base
ball is in the ascendant Football Is comparatively
to the college Last year the twenty made fair
fight with Yale In New Haven. but the game expert
mental and played for the purpose OF ascertainng
the colleges prospects In this direction The boys
learned, however, that occasion that their con-
scentious scruples the point of ''sboulderng''
Conscientious as judged by the Yale standard
The twenty for 1876 have been selected Practice has
been kept up all winter when weather permitted and
the team will begin the season with confidence. The
twenty follows captain, 5. Winans; +. Il.
Sherwood, Hal Sewall, Robert Van Sands Webster
Goss, f. II. Mansfield, C. r. Marsh, w. f. Ward,
c. p. Coburn d. IL Jones, l. G. lie Bar, w. d. Leon
Captain Winans headed the twenty last season. The
base ball is captained by J. W. Whitney 1876 The
arrangement Is as iollows:-J. W. Whitney, catcher
]. S. Colman, pitcher; ID. Robertson, short stop ID.
IL Jack, first base c. +. DAVIS, second base O. Il.
Bacon third base J. n. Brown lett field; L. H. Boner
centre field; l. G. lie Bar right field In the athletic
II Rar will no mo