New-York tribune., 1876-06-13
THE BOATING SEASON.
c,p,roe, AND SPRINGFIELD RACES.

yAIE AND HARVARD-RtL THAI Will NO'h"'
r-raE CREWS INTERNATIONAL EAcSs-Rk-
GArTA TxPENsEa
Seven boats at most will muster at the
College Regatta year. Tne Magenta VII be tnere
hut rot the Blue; and the friends OF Harvard may
val 10 their crew uncpposcd by the antaSonsiic Vant
fnps OF Yale; PRINCETON ana Union VIII be there Win
records to make Wesleyan with record to lose Dart
mouth formidable witt gradually accumulated expert
epce to supplement her ondd forces. aid lastly Co
lurnbia and Cornell young. vigorous, weiieqmpped'
and flushed with victory.
This is the array "VB Vctis." Woe TO the con
oueraA The weaker sisters are gone Puck VIII not Il"
everything. Hamilton. Bowdoin Brown. Trinity VII
llama Amherst have fought their battles plueky, but ~
vain They have dropped behind. with laEtTr
among t,en, and the strong have closed mp the
line IL is interesting reflect what that College
regatta Every OF the thirteen beautiful coeHe
shells cost three hundred dollars every one OF the
sevontgeight cost dollars and each crew uad
three four extra boats; costs ten dollars week 10
feed each Of young athletes and no one knows how
much to elothe them. My Lord John put his name
dowp erandy on the subscription list. pui the money
came ort II the old gen lemans pooRet IN tie ehn
statesman had two sons, one al Harvard ana one NJ
Yale and Ne now publicly thai they each cost MN
g. 200 \ year. No wonder. Those i6 muat ana 13i4
seconds Of amusement Lake Saratoga as' Jupe cost
over $4,000 Yes. it a gallant Spectacle says
The father but guess yon had better not subscribe Tor
the boat crew this year. my son."
Aud 30 there are only boat and Of the seven
have 10 struggle their Harvard Of course hoe
boats and men, and money enough Columbia boating mas
an aun ua from the wealth of thecoiego winch
alone would equala tax OF SO head student
in TYinity Cornell has numbers # not weslth, not to
mention pluck and the President Princeton and Unon
are wealthy aud have not yet had lime TO tcece tDer
graduates thoroughly and those deigbtiully shrewd
Jonathans WESLEYAN have managed by aileht ofuul
ming in New-York fairs in MddletoNn-not to men
ZION fashionable concerts which the Mayor paycd the
fute-to get together fund of great dim nsions And
as one Of them SAYS, they would have to send crew II
only to use MP the Dartmouth has bad more or
less difeuty but New Ham shire men are hard to
beat and seem to up smiling in spite OF the vari-
ons REPORTS some OF which stated that tax was Ia
be levied every In college to pay the boating e.
penses under terrible unmentioned "enaly DINERS
that tley had given up the idea OF sending crew AL
fact Dartmouth is as likely to stat as any one
on the list and it might be added is as likely to win
provided il profits by the experience OF LAST year and dis
plays thr same astonishing strength and endurance.
Tie colleges named will pull in six-Oarcd shells ~
heretofore though il is be hOpd and seems probable
that after year ou'oared sheds Viii I've preferred
The slxOared shells have no recf mm'ndatons which
fpur do not possess the strong feeling IN their favor
which has expressed the conventions OF the s
two wears will doubtless lead to their adoption WHEN
supplemented by considerations of economy In addition
TO the University will be the Ffesam N six-aared
race for which Harvard, Cornell, Princeton and NOui-
sassrs Francis OF Cornell. Hartman OF Harvard, and
Weeks of Columbia will enter with perhaps Princeton
man The arrangeun in charge 81 leEatta com
mtee composed Messrs Raes OF Columbia, Enst's ~
Wesleyan, aud Mccall Of Dartmouth. The indications
now are that win ake place just after the college
regatta possibly tie next day, and in connection Min H.
aserps flnte-uationi college races oi fhe most rnpn
eedt pted interest UNDERGRADUATE crews ron TRINITY
Coieee Cambridge, England. AMI DGbln UmYtisltf,
Ireland are expected whj all compete with tho best
American Undergraduate crews. AMI the INST race or
record tween college graduate will he contested
by the Dublin graduate orcw or the barns'Jns
ana crews of picked iate oarsnsu FROM Wcs'e'a a"
and Columbia aud possibly 1m other colleges in tliS
coune7v But OF these races, which do not occur tE
July 49, IN re will yet be much to say
YALE AND uARvARD AT SPRINGFIELD
The first event OF interest point OF time among col
Leg, oarSInenthis year is the YGe ANA Harvard e'@-
Dared race which be ed June 90 on the Conncc
ticut River Springfield Il, IS questionable now much
interest Will attach his The time wGs whrn tie
Yale and iiarvards ainu. race w3s the great beating
sensation of the year. Bat WIS bioSe the Association
Of Ceses grew sach dimensions. and before any ono
dreamed OF college regatta with IS entries and 2O10o
spectators Now the event Viii shinkW c"ihparlS'"
ith the great regatta and more than AL the Two ca"
lcces STEAD Of being as they were tfn n'aAeS
,iond champions arc both beaten putirs aud have been
beaten repeatedly by competitors Who remain 10 hSht
81 out IN the general struggle while Inc 0'hos III appd-
rent despair getting national elI3 A} hattlg WIN
The Neys-York New-IeEoy, and New II npsillc boz =.
hope 70 gain provincial fame 10y beating ea"h ";bcr II
sees i IL probable that Columbia, Co nell and Pre-
Ton c,, and will raise ana equip crews, which will hold
their own with III ard and Yale year in ana year ouI'
and SO no doubt w Dartmouth. II ;he question OF eN-
repse can nc reduced onl5is limits. TEis being
the case everybody interested in the noble pasliac OF
rowiu must reg the action OF Harvard nnd fac, ad
hope that they viii he induced reconsider aud rotiun
TO the ranks Of the regatta oaiSmen
The two colleges arc cIassei together retiring al
though Harvard IN He general regatta tAis year,
becanse on a vote at 4ss-nectng Of undergraduates.
held at C.mbri lge i, decided 10y large majority 10
retire from the Rowing Association, only % men voting
against IT, aud the action rcconsdrnd an' the crew
entered tais year ny the Efforts 0t The graduates the
COLLEGE who wished Harvard to remain In the Associa-
zion The undergraduates great pressure, consented
tosepd crew this year Jut announced that aft this
weir Harvard would leave the Association aud the gen
nr7 REGATTA The reasons whca have bccn iaboiiousy
urced by Yale and Harvard for this action have been
somewhat confused. but may be- summed up ID the idea
that II is all work and 10 pudding tram
ing for races aud then getting beaten by ems
erable nftle bacEwoods cOleg =" There Is no glory
in beating these small institutions 1t Is
claimed and il dSgracefu to be beaten ny en- There
to~e Yale and Harvard have nothing to gam and every
tlips 10 lose. A sensible Suggestion. matc by an old
Harvard man. for ObyiatiDg the diculiY Is that the
different colleges compete III separate races "f four six
and eight cared means OF avoid NJ loo many
crews participating in any one In II Yale could
ebai.u,ee Harvard for eight Ourcd race Bowdon
could race Dartmouth in four-. ard Union Hamilton III
size, In this way Yale and Har and could aI1arg'1g
in race occasionally at least have Il So that iiFy
shoala not be very badly beaten by any college having
less than tie number students expected fo- ied
collegiate institution.
TIE EIGHT-oARED RACE
On Yale's challenge accepted by Harvard, race VIII
"a t.t,4ua gFrI