Year: 1874

List OF her rivals victories and take another look
at the nags Sne was destined to have good day.
little haze and the lengthening shadows took the
edge of the heat, and the old lake, which had seen
so many hard fought battles and was indebted
more 70 these same rowing meetings than TO any
thing else for the national reputation 1t had OBJ
taned. bore itself If the "Lady OF the Laken had
many greenbacks staked upon the result. AS the
year before, Harvard again drew the inside. Az
the two crews lay At the starting line waiting for
the word the disparity between them was quite
marked. Yale sat the taller and larger
ana outweighed her opponents over ten
pounds man. while the dlminutive
size OF the Harvard bow oarsman made
hts crew look even smaller yet. Both were in
Elliott boats Of almost exactly the same dimen-
HOns, and while each had uOne its best the suit
was IN most minds almost of necessity foregone
conclusion in favor Of victory for the larger
At the word 'Goi" Harvard first got the water.
and sprung away with yhe lead at the actually un-
paraeled stroke OF nifty to the minute She passed
the grand stand well ahead. but many boat had
done that and used herself up in the effort. This
could never last all said, over three whole miles.
All the way to the stake they were at It, every man
rowing as II 1t were the duty OF his life. Har-
ward was ahead, but not much, and her friends
from Connections were sticking to her with
Q devotion truly praise worthy. She got
around the stake 1rst but that was the
most you could say, for Yale was right
at her heels and pushing her oil the way. So they
sped along, one working with the glow of winning
where she had not dreamed of it, the other goaded
to desperation at the thought that victory she
believed sure was slipping out of her hands. On
they came and, passing the grand stand, Slid In
across the line only nine seconds apart, Yale
having made the distance in the shortest time
ever made by q Yale crew, Ism. u.s., while her
conquerOr took but Ism. %.


ADDITIONAL. AsPIRANTS FOR AQUATIC HoNORs.


So ended the last race these two oft-matched
antagonists ever rowed by themselves-that Is,
where no other was by to snatch II posi- BILE the
prlze from both, and the next year, 1870,
came the last race that they or other OF
our colleges ever rowed at Worcester. The time set
was. as usual, the last Friday but one OF july the
Harvard vacation not generally commencing till
about that time Of year. Yale kept two of her 100
men, Coonley and Bone, while Harvard retained
Lyman and Willis Jones and Read. Elliott still
built Yae's boats, but Harvard Tor the first time,
tried a stranger, John Blakey, an Englishman
from aste-on-Tyne, who had come and settled
at Cambridge and located his shops by the Har-
ward lighthouses. Indeed, to-day, he has the en-
tire charge Of those lighthouses, and, by the way,
has built all Harvard's boats since 1869.
Again Yale brought the heavier crew,
this time by nine pounds man.
As mentioned above Harvard was stronger in
older men, and naturally enough from the rapid
work OF the previous year was easily the favorite.
Matters looked ripe for good race but the i'm.
preston was widespread that Harvard would
again win. But before the race was through
afairs took a turn as unexpected as unwelcome,
one which resulted in the abandonment Of Wor.
Cester perhaps forever, as place OF these inter-
collegiate meetings. One writer thus summarizes
the story and he has at least tried to do 1t fairly
'This race was decided by the referee in favor OF
the Harvards upon foul at the stake claimed by
that crew. All the accounts Of the race agree that
the boats started exactly at the same
moment; that although Harvard veered
nom the direct course up the lake, and, as
Yale claims, crowded their boat out OF the course,
the boats did not come in contact and that the
Harvards reached the stake at least half length
ahead. At this point the controversy commences
a. to whether it was the Harvard boat which
fouled the stake losing its rudder by making a
short, square turn, or the Yale boat which ran
into the Harvard boat and disabled It's steering ap-
paratus. The testimony OF the newspaper corre-
spondents on this point Is very connictin9 but the
referee decided that Yale was the party in error,
and gave Harvard the race"


As we have said, intense dissatisfaction was felt





cision, which finally eliminated in the members of
the crew pledging each other to never again
enter q contest on Lake Quinsigamond,
and this action was Endorsed by the
Yale University Boat Club in voting "that
no crew from that college ever should row there
again." How much control the action OF that boat
club can have on the doings OF It's members years
later. should that be considered again. it Is
not easy to say. but the excellent management Of
affairs this season thus tar at Saratoga may possi-
bly, preclude the necessity OF raising the ques-
tiOn American oarsmen are fortunate in having
90 many courses to choose from and on broad
waters ike those OF Saratoga Lake and good pre-.
vious management such an unfortunate event
could scarcely occur In the high excitement OF
race there may be and often is bad steering, but
when the waters are broad as they always ought to
be, there will usually be found among amateurs at
least q disposition to allow somewhat for
the faults OF each other. It Is certainly
to be hoped that this year, as last
there may not occur another or these unhappy
FOULS and now, in the year 1s71 for the nrst time
since 1850 and the third in the annals OF our col
lege racing, did any other Institution save these
tw0 venture into these contests. In 1860 Brown
had entered with q crew and boat both foolishly
light and had come In last with her boat partly
filled with water. In 1870 she essayed again, but
only IN the freshman Race, and beat Harvard,
Yale and Amherst the latter OF whom was
making her maiden appearance IN these
meetings Now in 1871 Brown was In
both the Freshman Race and the Univer-
sity, while the Amherst Agricultural School
separate institution from Amherst CoIlege-made
her nrst appearance in the University Race. step
which the result showed she had no possible rea-
son to regret And 1t will be OF interest here to-
day to note that on this same 2lst day Of July,
1S71 three OF the men who fll as many seats OF
the Harvard boat now then rowed In the Harvard
Freshman crew, Messrs. Dana, Goodwin and
Morse, while, in passing, it may be worth men
tioning that in single scull race earlier the same
afternoon and on the same track. Ten Eyck, the
professional, who the other day disposed of Scharn
and his friends spare dollars at Peekskil was
easily beaten by Ellis Ward, Butler, OF Boston. and
Harrington, or Springfield.


INGLEsIDE.