New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-30
VALE AND HARVARD CREWS.

YALE AND HARVARD CREWS.
A COMPARISON OF ADVANTAGES FOR PRACTICE
THE CREWS WELL MATCHED-RowING AND
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH MAN
YAIK,s CHINESE COXswAIN-THE EXCELLENCE
or THE NRw-LoNDON COURSE.
FROM AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT OF TIKI TRIBUNE
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, May 25.-1t is refresh
inx to turn from the reports of where tbe result
Influenced by outside Of the boats to the TWO Oni
yery that have met each other year after year,
10 have good square tussle for boating supremacy
The interest these annual contests Is due largely "
the fact that no professional element cutters INTO 'u
work For this reason. of Importance that some OF
the Fmors that have been ahoat on that su9eo' ~" ~
last few weeks should be corrected.
In the FIRST place. Mr. Watson. of Harvard 6s' IS hoV
the regular coach Of the Harvard crew He mas oeen
with them perhaps half dozen times th's spring U"
special invitation and is Of course, much przeu III LIS
capacity Of boating adviser but his mention Oy Tue
panes as the Harvard coach is calculated 10 mslead
men interested in the result Of the race Bancroft Inc
veteran captain of many University crews, ana Tue
stroke Of last years. ia the regular coach he mas lT
cole re- is married, and is practcnR law III bos'on
Daily he out to Cambridge ana gNes MS "uoo
10 the new me1. He is good illustration OF the auVah-
taoe Harvard mas over Yale in making 1t possible Tor
her graduateoarsmen TO come out every DAY 10 looA
after their crew. Bancroft has also eoached the FFesn
men crew little. II prophecy Is ever saIe' II ls uot
unreasonable predict that Harvard Will LEAD Column
even the capture of the Yale smell ofthe Hahnemann FAR
could have brought them comfort However this is not
to the point
In the second place. Davis is not aud never has been
the coach OF the Yale True he has been entrusted
with the rigging Of the Yale boat he well known as
an expert IN such matters and has been employed by
Yale rs any other professional boatbuilder. He has
never coached the on the water can sustain
both these statements by the best OF proof which Will
he produced rather than allow the suspicion TO cling
either institution that the honorable race theT have held
for quarter century is in danger OF being tniued
by the worst curse that befa any athletc organ
ization of gentlemen.
With glance at the opportunities for athletic ex-
eeence in the two colleges Will pass TO the crews IN
the boats The colleges are favored this year at last
with nearly the water facilities. 1aies water
ls mile away while Harvard's flows practically by her
aoor The Chare is more exposed during windy weather.
but as interference OF bridges and oyster stakes
there is little choice between them. Both TOW on de
water aRd both have stop rowing during the months
when ice cbokes the way. This year. however Harvard
has been at dsad vantage. She has been kept from
the water by nasty weather and can scarcely be SAID
10 have had more than months good rowing this year.
Three days out OF every week have been worthless for
practice on The water, although the little they have
DONE has been well DONE ably supplemented by work In
the most perfect gymnasium in this country.
Yale on the other hand has been on the water rain or
shine seet or snow all through the Winter. Captain
have suited the men better than rowing shirt. The
praetice Gig has been seered cakes Of floating
Ice of times and result his men look as tongh ana
hearty as party of old salts after whaling cruise
The training at both colleges is mild compared to the
raw steak and sunrise regimen OF the Saratoga school
Of emptrIcists. The now rise about 2, take
vbort row IN the forenoon when possible yale does
this Harvard instead takes RUM, and about they
take their regular pull with the coach, have whole
some supper OF meat vegetables and plain pudding
washed down with ale ciareJ and water A man 10
left 10 consult stomach very largely variety
of dishes is permitted. OF smoking and alcoholic
wines are taboOed, as well late entertainments.
TIE training does not interfere seriously with the work
Of tire college course. On the contrary some OF the
men are high in their classes and man encouraged
to work for scat 10 the boats who is not reasonably
safe on the score OF his stand IN tine class.
TIE VALUE OF HARvARDs PRESENTATION STEAM
LAUNCH.
The Harvard eight have received a steam launch from
forne publicsprited graduates In Boston, so that the
coach may follow the eight closely on four-me pull
This want severely felt at Yale, and one that calls
for immediate relief These long pulls are the ones
in which the endurance OF crew Is tested and Just
there that the keen eye pr&ctsed coach detect
faults that are concealed shorter pulls II few Yale
graduates would club together for the purchase OF
launch for the service Of Mr. Wood whle coaching the
"BIue" 1t would go far toward putting the two crews
on equality.
the papers talked about Yales heaviest aud Harvards
highest crew." The facts were otherwise. From
figures that have verified since the Yale crew averaged
l61 pounds last year, and Harvard 175 Harvard not
only had the heaviest and the Oldest but crew that
has never been approached in excellence OF material
and form by college crew. An English boating man
rave t as his opinion that 1t was superior TO any crew
he had seen on the Thames between Puney and Mort
lake On the other hand, the Yale boat had stroke
that would have ruined any boat crew. no matter how
good. They were under captain who. although dis
tiugushed athlete and plucky oar, failed to insore
his crew with confidence. He did not train strictly him
SELF even close mp to the and although 10
man did so well when The struggle came, his example
aud fault OF stroke did much TO explain the inferonty
in the boat.
This year we have the following data on which 10
base our opinions OF the two boats Harvard's bow Is
fha sou of distinguished writer political economy,
bat does not shine m what look for in boat. man
Ne 5ows we'll however has been bow IN three class
races and may dspiove the theory taat broad barrel
Fuller in the Yale boat man against whom rowing
have bee G2 nTS the S0 last yes
Yae,s bow Collins, is 1853 pounds heavy. sluggish
IS ss out as so@e papa rs had IT, that Collins
gore up TO $50 pounds from 163 gain Of II pounds IA
one week n rs ridiculous 10 believe, ana yet tue
report that Yale averaged 139 pounds is believed and
has been copied into paPers 10 an paris Hs S bns
both good men-Freeland, NEWCOMER ana Hooper,
man HSSpSr was Seee Both St ere
noted gymuasts college, and neither OF them are poor
roa, Georgia who. though feet ii inches and weigh
fng i78 pounds 50 yet by two years than MS
rivals and lacks the muscular Development OF Harvard
No. 2
similarity lies in both their naIfs beginning with II.
an1 botn being Yankees Howard, OF Harvard, IL four
rarS older than Hail. OF Yale, but the latter unques
eiably the better ar besides icing superior in weight
ard height Howard II 10 potable that although Yale
s IN Connecticut she hes but this representative Of
nor tnfe wncrc seven States or the Union
are represented Harvard the other Land. has four
f~as.si,,,aAffs tnnn. II HOOPER haVD
ssa from her state. Der representation whole,
covers only tho three States OF Massa ehusets
YORK ard Vermont. Yale includes one apiece from
Sss.aoayi Ce0rgia, Michigan, Connecticut. Nrw-YOrk.
sss,I,.rsey aud two from Massachusetts. II there s
nm ensmonolitan ORGANIZATION. Yne has