Year: 1874

The University Boat Race-The Pros
poets for 1875.


| As at present advised we understand that
all the colleges and universities represented
last summer on Saratoga Lake mean to meet
again next season, while two or three new
recruits, one from our own city, are likely to
join them.


Princeton, who, after a gallant effort, sue
ceeded this year in bringing up the rear, has
no idea of being again contented with that
glory; but with her fast and victorious
Freshman crew to choose from, abundant
money and fondness for athletic contests
hardly equalled at any other college in the
country, she will be heard from, far higher
up than last, in the race of next July.


Trinity retains all her old men save one;
and with the experience of this year, the
heaviest crew of all, one of the tallest and
Oldest a good practice course and plenty of
grit and money, she win be very likely to
carry back better word to Hartford than she
has been able to heretofore


Cornell disappointed her friends more this
time than perhaps any other university; for it
will be remembered that instead of fourth
place, which she claimed in 1878, sixth was
the best she could show this year. There is
no lack of facilities at Ithaca for the best Of
work, and the powerful young university
must not slacken her hand, especially now,
when, if accounts are correct two of her
crew have graduated, if she expects to re-
deem her reputation and do herself any real
credit.


Dartmouth, too, has again shown fond
ness for one of the middle places, though her
rowing had quickened and improved much
since she made her maiden essay at the oar,
showing that hard and judicious work will at
last, if persevered in, shake q reef or two out
OF even marked unwieldiness. But what she
has always sadly needed she still needs
scarcely less-good coaching She ought, too,
with such reach and stride and such grand air
to train in to show better in the foot races,
her single representative in the seven-mile
walk, it will be remembered, breaking down
long before doing much over half the dis
tance.


Williams, to the delight of her many friends,
who felt badly enough in 1873, strode from
tenth and last that year straight up to fourth
or fifth place-one of the best surprises of
the week. She will hardly improve on or
even hold that place next time, although she
does lose only one man; but he happens to be
a man worth almost any other two in the
boat, and one of the best three or four from
all the boats together. That his place will be
filed is extremely doubtful, even though there
is year to do it in, which shows how close
and fine these contests are getting when one
man can make SO real difference


Harvard, OF which so much was expected,
and whose promising career was so unhappily
terminated by an entirely unnecessary col
lision, has lost much of her strength,
stroke-oar of three years standing and much
dash and style and two of her talest and
strongest men having become ineligible by
graduation. Such loss, with a lack of
interest at Cambridge, at least till recently,
which, owing to the dulness of the outlook,
has almost bordered on indifference, does not
hold out much encouragement for her chances
next season.


Thanks to the collision Wesleyan moved
up to second this year; but though she has
lost her stroke and best oarsman, the remain
ing five are uncommonly tough, and, with an
abundance OF money, hitherto unknown, and
much valuable experience, together with the
high hopes her taking second place twice
running has naturally given her, there is no
kind Of doubt that she will again give good
account of herself, and likely enough keep
her usual place.


And the boat which will lead her will
hardly be Columbia. Two of her crew
have gone, one of them her strongest man.
She will work nightly, no doubt to fill the
vacant places and, if possible, repeat the
glorious news Of last July; but unless she has
unusually good material TO choose from her
loss must cripple her seriously Good oars
men can be made in q year, but these unive-s-
ity contests have Of late become SO close that
the old hands stand the best chance, and
Columbia can hardly hope. for many years to
come, to see her two most dangerous rivals
again hopelessly interlocked and thrown out
of the race long before it is over


But whatever doubts and fears the friends
of the others may have those Of Yale rny
we'll view compacently the outlook. Too
often they have known what it was to antici-
pate only defeat and find in the end that
they had judged but too correctly. But this
year all the best chances are their way A
crew already very fast and every man OF it
remaining, captain who travelled six thou
col Gr-t f,, 1aarp h;p,ca1f o,,l
teach his men how to row, the spur of last
years work thrown away, familiarity with her
opponents strength and Weakness should the
race take place this fall, Yale would win
almos. to certainty, and we have yet to dis
cover why. if no mishap comes to her,
her chances for the first place next summer
also are not the best of all In any case