Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-12
College News.

] Items in General-The Yale Regatta 1 Rovved in Spite of the weather-The l Vtctors.
 They are going to have scratch races at
 Harvard in place of the regular fall races. The lacrosse team will play 8 series of l games with Princeton the first of which oc-
 CUTS at the Park on Saturday.
 The football game this week will be with
 Wesleyan, not with Stevens Institute, as was advertised
 After to day the trunks and boxes that
 have been reposing in the various entries
 will be transferred to the nearest basement
 unless they are removed by the owners
 Princeton appears to be making a deter
 mined brace for the football championship
 this year. Mir. Robinson, late of Harvard,
 the famous professor of athletics, has been
 engaged to coach and train their football
 players, and practice games played
 daily.
 Harvard has Sunday services in chapel in
 the evening instead of the morning. There
 will be no services at all before October 22,
 and none after the April vacation. The
 preachers will be of different denominations
 The Record offers silver cup of the value
 of fifty dollars as prize for the winner of
 the half mile running race The winner of
 the cup will have his name engraved upon it,
 and will keep it until the games next spring,
 when it will be contended for again
 and handed over to the winner, whose
 name will also be engraved upon
 it, and so on ad infnitum. But if one man
 wins the race three times he scoops the cup
 Now let the other papers come forward and
 do likewise. Let the Neacs offer cup for
 the 100 yards dash, the Courant for throw ing the discus and the Lit. for the mile walk
 The black clouds and copious showers that
 greeted the eye of the anxious student yes- terday morning did not tend to add to his happiness, for the chances of pleasant after noon for that very exciting contest, the fall regatta, were thereby rendered very slim. AS the day wore on there were no signs of 8 breaking away, and the bulletin at Beers an- nounced that the races would be rowed ''rain or shine.' At 3 o'clock goodly number of ] carriages lined the wooded banks of the lake near the finish, and 8 large crowd of students were waiting in anxious expectancy. They ere kept in waiting until after f. The soph- l omores appeared first and were greeted with ! cheers as they rowed up the course. Soon ! after the juniors swung their boat into the water and soon after the seniors, who had been kept back by g broken slide, came out to the lake. The crews were to start two miles up the
 lake. The storm had subsided to gentle drizzle, the crowd amusing itself by ! making bets, when the sound of gun ! shot came down the lake, announcing that the crews had started The start was good one. All crews took the water together, and ! pulled nearly abreast of each other until the ! last of the first mic, when '93 made tre- ! mendous struggle and forged ahead The l race down the last mile was as pretty and l fercely contested as was ever rowed on the lake. 'S3 was pulling nagniticently and 'S5 was close on them, with '94 well up the trail of the sophomores. When about half
 mile from the finish '93 began to spurt and increased her lead to length and half, but \ 'S5 responded finely to the call for a spurt l and ssed the line close on '83 that there was much doubt in the minds of the specta | tors which was ahead. 'S4 came in last sev- ! eral lengths behind. All crews were evident ly worn out and were quite ragged at the fin ish. Time; 's3, 12 minutes, seconds; 's5, 12 minut es, 17 seconds 'S4, 12 minutes, 24 seconds.
 The next event was the shell race between c. M. Smith, 's3 and Terry, Shelf. MT. Terry met with little misfortune which re- tarded his progress-he tipped over and took | to the water. Some thought he was going | to swim it out but this theory was exploded | by the appearance of the would be Hanlan on ! the bank gazing sadly at his overturned shell ! Smith made the course in 16m. 1S1s. and was | loudly applauded.
 ! It was growing dark when the freshman | crews rowed up the lake for their mile race I Nothing could be seen of the crews until ! about a half mile away, when two boats ap- peared and seemed abreast of each other. So ! they continued till '86 made a spurt and got
 a lead. Then '85 s. crept up on them and | suddenly they colided. Then followed sort | of rush between the crews in the endeavor to push off, and after they were disentangled 'S6 came across the line first. Time-'S6, 6m. i sos; 'S5 S., 6m. 593s.
 l To the class of 'S3 belongs especial credit ! for the splendid manner in which they won | this the last race of their college course. ! They were disabled by the loss of one of | their best oarsmen, MT. Beck, and the crew
 were crippled in the race, after their three
 weeks of training, by the disordered slides in | the boat, of which there were three. Yet l the crew all pulled nobly and won the race ! in the face of difficulties and the opposing I crews fine as generally appear in ! these races '83 has now, without their four \ University crew men, won six out of seven l class races, a record only equalled by one
 class, the class of '79. Of the sophomore ! crew it may be said that the pluck they ! showed in squirting finely near the last proves them to be good oarsmen. If the
 suit might have been different. The races ! were 8 great many very jubilant collegians ! 1oSt