The New York herald., 1876-02-09
Race with tho English Graduates.

Race with the English Graduates.
The plan proposed ut the recent meeting
OF the Cambridge University Boat Club, Of
sending to this country, not an undergradu-
ate crew, but one in which graduates too
might row, would, perhaps, operate well
enough for the open amateur races at Phila-
delphia and elsewhere, but in the intercolle-
gate race would tend to work confusion.
Naturally, on recalling famous members of
past crews-men like Grifiths and Chambers,
hinglake, Lawes and Goldie, or at Oxford
Morrison and Darbishire, william, Tinnie and
Marlborough, most of them young enough to
be still very effective at the oar-the clubs
would like to make sure of at least one or
two OF these confessedly better men than
happen now to be in the Universities They
might very properly conclude that the best
crew of Cambridge or Oxford men living,
not simply those who happen now to be
undergraduates, would be the truest repre-
sentatives of their respective skill and PROV
ess at the oar But whether there or here,
the plan would necessitate crews being made
up which had rowed together for, as they
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mixed crew, but one composed solely of
undergraduates. They would then leave for
America at the earliest day possible, and SO
have no time to work together at home, while
our oarsmen must row as undergraduates
alone until July 10, and would hence have
but about a month to break the graduates
into their style, or vice rersd. The sugges-
tion to call in graduates, however, was based
on the six-oared plan, and on the need at
Cambridge of calling in two graduates to
make up the number. But the HERALD plan
Of having the race in fours quite re-
moves the need; and so, if pressed,
as it is likely and manifestly ought
to be- will insure the much desired struggle
without more delay But out of all this an
excellent idea offers. We, too, would like
much to see these famous men of past days,
for their names are household words also on
this side of the water And this is the way
to do it Let our best graduate oars meet at
once and unite in challenge to any four
graduates of Cambridge University, of Ok
ford and of Dublin. Messrs. Bacon, Stoz-
kopf, Bennett and Kennedy, of Yale Eustis,
Rodgers, Downs and fourth, of Wesleyan !;
four of the ~ fast Amherst team Rees and
Rapallo, Timpson and Robert Cornell, of
Columbia, and Loring, Watson, Simmons
and Richards or Willis of Harvard, to say
nothing of score of other good men, could
soon have together teams that never
used to do their Universities fair name
discredit, and could take good care
of it even in this greatest pass of all. Such an
invitation would indeed bring to our shores
the flower of English amateur oarsmen,
would make the Centennial races even vet
more interesting, and, as all would at once
see, would bring together the best amateur
rowing talent in the world. The great ad-
vantage to both graduates and undergradu-
ates is that there is abundant time yet to
make oil arrangements and get into thorough
condition; while there has been about the
same partial training already on both sides
of the ocean. Let no time be lost in bring
ing, about these two very desirable contests.