New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-06-24
COLLEGE REGATTA NOTES.


crews of the season. averaging 100 pounds per Tn"i
Mr. Otis, who was to be Captain Of the Harvard
crew 10 definitely out of both this year. Mlan-
matory rheumatism ia The cause
The Princeton, Columbia, and Union crews
arrived al atoEa this week. and are Praccng on the
take They III make the Grand Union Hotel their head
quarters.
The Wesleyan crew will probably be the hight
est in the College as the men VIII average conccr
oblv under $50 pounds when trained. They all new
men IN the boat
The Yale Harvard race, if pulled on Friday,
goth inst Will started at 4:30 p H. but IN case IL IA
deferred of bad weather will take place at ~
a. III. ON Saturday, Jlly L.
The last college race at Springfield was IN
1873 Tue citizens pleased at having the ine-
Harvard there this year. and have contributed
sufficient 10 defray the entire expenses OF the local
ARRANGEMENTS.
All the crews this year are featlering high.
The Cornell crew became used to 1t on Cayuga LAKE.
which Is very ant 10 be rough and it C,oOd them IA COCO
stead in the ao, Saratoga Lake happened also W oe
| lumpy al That tune.
The first Yale Harvard race, like that which
takes place next Friday pulled III eightoaIed zig,
Progress has brought them back to the starting point In
respect to the number OF oars though II ~ ioOaDo 'o
| craft TO be used will DC some NAT lighter
A feet little revenue cutter, built in Proyi-
depce for the Government and said TO be able 10 n Il
miles an hour been secured for Che spr ngiei rc
and unless both OF her twin endnrs become disabled
the Judges will be pretty apt W See tue race ana 'he
whole race.
The Harvard SIX will go to Saratoga the day
after the Springfield regatta Then quarters al sfng
neld viii he ut Mrs GOldsmiths on Longmeaiow wiore
they STAYED IA 1873. At Saratoga they win 1--we al White
Sulphur Springs, near the urrer end Oh the lake, III tho
same cottages they occupied last year.
A new style of rudder, invented by Mr.
Waterman bow Of the Cornell crew. Is a novelty. II
fitted to the OF the boat but being pabic plate of
thin springy metal, t. pulled FROM side 10 SID b
stationary pin passing, through IL midway, T. the
end which pin the rudlcr lines are ATTACHED ~ l. on
the principle ~ fish's tail and is said ia work we'll
Harvard will be one of the many crews which
will paper shes at Saratoga this year THESE have
wooden frame upon which prepared paper Is
stratched ia Numerous layers Ike papicr mache They
have been IN use several years They hsd become I'M
popular before the victories OF Cornell last year which
were both i'll paper boats This yeat tney VII be
fashionable.
OF the 16 University races, Harvard has
won o. Yale 3, and otuer colleges f. The following Is
recapiiuaton by years: - 49, 49,.
arysrd-l852 1855, 1859. 1850, 1866 1867 1903. 1869
Ysie-ls64 1897. 1873.
Amherst AcrcGltuTaI-lo7l
| fA5Sj;1S SrS,inRiis7i
COrb,l-loiJ.
Sixteen colleges now belong to the Inter
collegiate Athletic ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Amherst, Bowdoin,
Brown Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth. Harvard, Prince
! ton Trinity Union WESLEYAN, Williams Yale, HAMILTON.
University Of Pennsylvania and College o the city Of
New-York II expected that o least two Of thrm viii
be repcsented n the games OF tbs year me bGrtOga
Committee have laid ont new pcdCsLdn t'c- onc-flb
| OF mile long for the games
| The idea of an intercollegiate boat race was
promulgated in 1852 by j. Nj. Wilton a Yale senior,
afterward clergyman aud settled at Lynn and lately
Amounted Principal Of WstOn Seminary, EsthamptOI.
IL was very hard to get Harvard to enter the lists
but that was at length brought about. and the primal
American college regatta sn.Ied Aug. 3, 1852 upon
Lake WbuipiscOgoe, at Center Harlan. n. H. Inc race
was pulled ia cightOared har2cs, two mics straight
| away against tho wind. uaryards Oneida came IN t~o
! icngtis ahead Of YLes Haley on. pair OF silver
| mounted sculls constituted The prize.
! The programme for the athletic games at
| Saratoga IL planned 40 IollOTs:
J. Mile run.
D TIL &c nile run
! 8. Hsitmlc
| l.. Quarter mil.
dies 10 ysrs apart fct Inches high, Rit aEoOd
aud rgnin Of yards each
q. One hundred yards dAAh-
z. Mile wax.
| 5. Three milo wak.
| o. Running high lnmp.
| 10. kuBuDg broad ldmp.
! u. Tlrcclcgge race 200 y'fdsJ'
| 10. 1hrONlDg the basf ban.
| II. Nile r1n lg1TrluHttsj
10. Mlls walk RfalhAifsl
For each Of these contests frat and second prize Will
be- awarded with The exception o the two events for
graduates for which prze only IN each will he
given The price will be cups aud medais ~ III the
Icrs Of last July although vi the cups su he
costly as tboso presented the last two seasons, and the
plLcs WILL moreover bo VI equal value IN each contest
] In l843 William j. Weeks. a Yale student,
bought boat for ESQ., named II the Pioneer" and
formed the Pioneer Club. Of which he captain That
wss tho nst Yale boating the beginning VI the present