Year: 1873

PooPio VI OauIoInla nave repudlateu JneSe oiu
| parties. In the success of the new indepen-
dent and anti-monopoly party of that State
we see the commencement of a revolution in
the politics and political issues of the
country


Tho Rowing 1t saratogs-Win the
College Races Be There Next Years


The recent college regatta was fraught with
suggestions which other places than Spring
field may well enough heed; for it must occur
to any town in Eastern New York or Southern
New England which has near it broad
stretch OF Lake or river that that reach of
water can be made the means not only of a
capital advertisement, but of bringing. among
other good things, an income, within less than
forty-eight hours, of some twenty thousand
dollars or more-an sitem' which even o we'll
grown city need not lightly overlook. This
year especially presents such an opportunity,
for the manifest unfairness of the course
recently rowed on the Connecticut-an un-
fairness which has impressed itself on more
than one other university besides Cornell
renders it simply imperative that they who
have in charge the selection of the course for
next years meeting settle upon some other
water If the choice be made this fall advan-
tage can be taken of the winter ice in stalking
off and getting ready the course, while
proper committees can be appointed and
trained to look to each detail of what is
| rapidly becoming an event Of national inter-
est, thus avoiding the shameful bungling so
%1o
for this contest could in many ways be made
on far more liberal scale than heretofore,
and the recipients of the income named would
quickly lend their aid. Why should not every
rover and boat and oar be taken to and fro
entirely without charger And, indeed, it
| might be no mistake to reduce the rates for
the spectators as WELL To be sure, one large
item of expense has been well done away
with-namely, that of the professional trainer
But boats and boat houses alone tell visibly on
the exchequer of most students, and many Of
the late contestants, for instance, would CRATE
fully appreciate the saving thus suggested
Then, again, in finding for each party suit
able quarters, protection for their boats.
proper RATS and many other conveniences
which quickly suggest themselves to any row.
ing man, competent committees might do
much, and do it far better than the students
strangers to the neighborhood- make 1t
easy for the latter to come back again.


Already one town, with commendable enter
prise, has gone vigorously to work; and
although its rowing course has before this
proved ON excellent one, when the chosen
professional oarsmen of two continents
selected it for their sharpest contest still its
citizens are determined not to lose the present
opportunity, if they can help it. On Thurs
day and Friday next, on Saratoga Lake. there
are to be races for the various sorts of out
rigger boats, open to all who come fairly under
the title amateur oarsmen as recently defined.
Beautiful and very costly prizes have been for
some time past on exhibition at Tiffany's; the
entries are now closed, and from the number
and quality of them there should, with favor
good racing. New York and Pennsylvania,
New Jersey and Michigan, Ohio the District
of Columbia and the Dominion of Canada
are all to be represented, and in one of the
races, the single scull, there are expected to
start no less than fourteen boats, while seven
four-oared outriggers will probably back up to
the line together.


A delegation from the projectors of these
races waited on the Regatta Committee, it will
be remembered, at Springfield, detailing the
numerous advantages OF Saratoga Lake, and
eager to learn how they might prevail on the
students to come there next summer. We are
not aware what encouragement was held out
in return, but the meeting of next week is
evidently meant to set out anew the good
points of their course in their most favorable
light.


But, while they have accomplished SO much,
they must not expect o result nearly SO
brilliant now as the college races would make.
In the first place, the contestants, although
SO numerous, and many of them coming so
far, have not been watched and described by
the press to one-tenth part Of the extent
that the men who represented those eleven
seats of learning were This is owing, per-
haps, to the greater amount Of interesting
news now crowding out what would have
proved welcome enough in the dearth existing
then. But it is due mainly to the fact that
every year makes more plain-namely, that
there is but one rowing race in this country
each year about which the public generally
care, and that is the college race. Perhaps no
better interests are represented in it than will
be at Saratoga next week, but it stands for
larger constituency, and falls at q time of
the year when its constituents can and do come
almost in body. And this brings us to the
chief point Of our remarks, for suppose, as
we trust will be the fact that no foul occurs to
mar the pleasures of the coming struggles;
that no diagonal line bars the swiftest rowers
from their prize; that the referee has de-
cent facilities for his arduous task,