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even. ow at tnst would, as she naa done under Bacon in 1864, break through the long list of her rivai’s victories and take another look atthe fags. She was destined to have a good day. A little have and the lengthening shadows took the edge off the heat, and the old lake, which had seen | so many hard fought battles and was more to these same rowing meetings than to any- ‘thing else for the national reputation it had ob- ‘tained, bore itself as ifthe “Lady of the Lake” had many greenbacks staked upon the result. As the year before, Harvard again drew the inside. As ‘the two crews lay at the starting line waiting for the word the disparity between them was quite @arked. Yale sat the taller and larger and outweighed her opponents over ten pounds a man, while the diminutive size of the Harvard bow oarsman made Dts crew look even smaller yet. Both were in Biliott boats of almost exactly the same dimen- ions, and while each had aone its pest the result ‘was in most minds almost of necessity a foregone Conclusion in favor of a vietory for the larger men. At the word “Goi” Harvard first got the water, and sprung away with the lead at the actually un- paralleled stroke of Mitty to the minute. She passed the grand stand well ahead, but many a boat had done that and used herself upin the effort. This -oould never last, all said, over three whole miles. All the way tothe stake they were at it, every man rowing as if it were the one duty of his fe. Har- vard was ahead, but not much, and her friends from Connecticut were sticking to her with ® devotion traly praiseworthy. She got around the stake frst, but that was the most your could say, for Yale was right at her heels and pushing her ail 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 a victory she ‘Believed sare was slipping out of her bands. On they came, and, passing the grand stand, sid in @cross the line only nine seconds apart, Yale having made the distance in the shortest time ‘over made bya Yale crew, 18m. lls. while her conqueror took but 18m. 25. ADDITIONAL ASPIRANTS FOR AQUATIC HONORS. So ended the last race these two oft-matched ‘antagonists ever rowed by themselves—that 1s, ‘where no other was by to snatch if possible the Prize trom both, and on the next year, 1870, voame the last race that they or other of our colleges ever rowed at Worcester. ‘The tmeset ‘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 ’69 men, Coonley and Bone, while Harvard retained Lyman and Willis Jones and Read, Elliott still built Yale’s boats, but Harvard, for the first time, tried a stranger, John Blakey, an Englishman from Newcastie-on-Tyne, who had come and settled at Cambridge and locatea his shops by the Har- ‘vard boathouses. Indeed, to-day, he has the tire charge of those boathouses, and, by the wa, has built all Harvara’s boats since 1869, Again Yale brought the heavier crew, this time by nine pounds a map. As mentioned above Harvard was stronger in older men, and naturally envugh from the rapid work of the previous year wes easily the favorite. Matters looked ripe fora good race but the im- Pression was widespread that Harvard would again win. But before the race was through ‘fairs took a turn as unexpected as unwelcome, ne which resulted in the abandonment of Wor- ‘Cester, perhaps forever, as a place of these inter- collegiate meetings. One writer thus summarizes the story, and he has at least tried to do it fairly:— “This race was decided by the referee in favor of the Harvards upon a foul at the gtake claimed by that crew. All the accounts of the race agree that the boats started exactly at the same moment; that although Harvard. veered from 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 !east half a length abead. At this point the controversy commences 8 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 disabied its steering ap- paratus. The testimony of the newspaper corre- ‘spondents on this point is very conficting, but the referee decided that Yale was the party in error, and gave Harvard the race.’’ AS we have said, intense dissatisfaction was felt among the Yale crew and their friends at this de- cision, which finally culminated in the members of the crew pledging each other to ‘never again enter a contest on Lake Quinsigamond, and this action was indorsed by the Yale University Boat viub in voting “that mo crew from that college ever should row there again.” How much control the action of that boat clab can have on the doings of its members years later, should that course be considered again, it is not easy to say, but the excellent management of affairs this season thus far at Saratoga may possi- bly preclude the necessity of ever raising the ques- tion, American oarsmen are fortunate in having #0 Many courses to choose from and on broad ‘waters like those of Saratoga Lake and good pre- vious management such an unfortunate event ould scarcely occur. In the hign excitement of a face 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 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 of these unhappy fouls, and now, in the year 1871, for the first time ince 1860 and the third in tne annals of our col- lege racing, did any other institution save these ‘two venture into these contests. In 1860 Brown had entered with ®& crew and boat both foolishiy light, and had come in last, with her boat partly Miled with water. In 1870 she essayed again, but onlyin the Freshman Race, and beat Harvard, Yule and Amberst, 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 College—made her first appearance in tne University Race, astep ‘which the result showed she had no possible rea- son to regret, And it will be of interest here to- day to note that on this same 2st day of July, 1871, three of the men who fill 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 a single scull race earlier the same afternoon and on the same track, Ten Eyck, the professional, who the other day disposed of Scharff and his friends’ spare dollars at Peekskill, was easily beaten by Ellis Ward, Butler, of Boston. and Harrington, of Springfield. INGLESIDE. Two, and in fact three other features also had this race of 1871, and very noticeable ones. Yaie was 8 good as her word, and Worcester was aban- doned, Ingleside, @ little place on the Connecti- cut, @ little above Springfleld, Massachusetts, being substituted for pretty Lake Quinsigamonda. Again, the course was not, for many years, out to stake and return, but straight away; a thing without a precedent in these college races, save 1m that one—the first of ali—on Lake Winnteptseo- gee, in 1852, Now all questions of 1ouling and chop- ping off each other's rudders while rounding a Stakeboat will be dene away, and bad the 1870 race heen here there might have been a different Stors to tell. The course ran from stakeboats anchored oppo- site Ingleside, down the stream, three miles, to a lve fity teet north of Chicopee Bridge. ‘The cur- rent is sluggish, probably about as strong as at Springfield, where there is scarcely any at all at this tine of the year. YALB ABSENT AND WHY ? The other and most significant feature of this race—one never before under any circumstances known—was the absence of any crew from Yale. Harvard had Read and Jones and four new men again ready to meet her; and Eldred, the famous stroke of the “Aggies,” would try with his men to give her a warm welcome, But Yale had made ap her mind and would not be turned from it. That she had not dropped the idea of college rowing, however, was clear enough from the tenor of the following notes, which explain themselves :— New H . $9, Guonse Bass, Prosidentorle Us Gin aan Sim—~ihe undersigned, in babalfof the Yale Uni- indebted | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1874—REGATTA EDITION. Hanae ence yee Warr) ct vga pam memmemenacnememetnemmmgeeaeel eure tpenmc mmm ae setae enna emmee ernment ad versity crew, hereby chatiengs the Harvart University crew to row @ straightaway six-cared sheil race, upon the lth of July, 1570, om any course hereafter agreed upon. Ba co thy ORD, President. L. 5. Booums, Secretary ot UBC, Foun, President ¥, (2uniabam, March 7, 1671 Mr. J. H. Forp, President Y. U. B. Sie—We have been directed to notify the Yale Uni- versity Boat Olnb that their challenge has been received and that action will be taken upon it in a few weeks. Yours very truly, ROBERT A. RUSSKL, President Wixruror Miiem, Secretary. CAunnipge, March 27, 1871. GxentLemen—At a moeting of the Executive Commiltee of the H. U. B. C., held to consider the challenge of the y. U. B. it was decided that the H . O, is willing to meet the ¥. U, B. C. in any race in which all parties are sure of tair play. In order, therefore, to attain this desir- able end, you aro regnenne to se two delegates to a convention to be hel Mass, on Saturday. 1871, establishing 4 n regatta of Ainerican colleges” An early notiftcation of your intention of attend! convention would greatly favor the undersigned. vyery*respecttully, ‘C. H. GOULD, President H. U. B. 0, H. ©. Mupcx, Secretary H. U.'B. 0. A most voluminous correspondence followed, the details of which need not be given now, but Yale would row no more at Worcester, and would never meet Harvard again in any but a straightaway race. So she sent no delegate to the above Con- vention, and, most remarkaple of all, actually stayed out of the race of 1871, Yot it was not at Worcester and was straightaway, so that she could apparently have saved her feelings any very severe shock, THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES FORMED. The Convention met atthe time and place ap- pointed, representatives being present from Bow- doin College, Brunswick, Me.; Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; “Amherst College, Amherst, Mags, and Brown University, Providence, R. 1. ‘These proceeded to organize “The Rowing Asso- ciation of American Colleges,” to frame and adopt & constitution and byiaws and to appoint the necessary officers. These were—President, 0, 0. Luther, of Brown; Vice President, R. 8. Russel, of Harvard; Secre- tary, E. P. Mitchell, of Bowdom; Treasurer, A. B. Mooney, of Amherst; Regatta Committee, G. F. Roberts, of Harvard; H. Cornett, of Brown; Leverett Bradley, of Amherst; F. A. Ricker, of Bowdoin, And from that time until now these yearly meetings have been under the sole control and management of the said association. The fol- lowing is THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COLLEGE ASSOCIATION. ARTIOLY 1. Sxction 1.—The name of this association shall be the “Rowing Association of American Colleges.” Sx. 4—The objects of this association shall be the pro- motion oi the aré ot rowing among the members of our respective colle meetings. friendly contests and otherwise, and the kindling of thas iriendly spirit and college feeling which ought always te exist between col- legos and. geauemen. ARTICLE II. Sxction L—This association shall. be represented by conventions consisting of two delegates trom each ot the several college boat clubs which may have been ud- miltted to a xepresentation in the manner hereafter pro- vided for. net Rt Any college club desiring to be represented {n this association shail present to the Secretary, at least ten days previous to the annual meeting of the associa- ton, @ written official notice to that effect. ‘Sno, 3.—All applications shall be voted upon at the an- nual meoting of the association, where, ifa majority of the members present vote in fuvor thereof, such club or clubs shall be admitted and entitled to representation in the association. ; ARTICLE 111. Snorton 1.—The officers of this association shall bea President, Vice President, Secretary aud Treasurer, who shall hold office for the period of one year, and shall be elected by a majority vote of ull delegates present at the @ngual meeting of the association. Bxc, 2.—All elections shall bo by ballot, unless other- wise provided tor. annictz rv, Sxcrion 1.—it shall be the duty of the Prosident, and in his absence of the Vice President, to preside at all meetii and to call special mectings whenever he may deem {t necessary, or whenever requested to do so by the presidents of three college clubs entitled to repre- sentation in this association. , ‘8x0, 2,—It sual be the duty of the Secretary to keep, in a book kept for this purpose, an accurate record of all the proceedings of the association: to tasue all notices of meetings, and to Keep, 10 auother book Kept for this par- Dose, @ true account of the annual regatta of this asso- ciation, Suc. 3—It shail be the duty of the Treasurer to take charge of all funds of the assoctation. He shall keep an account, in a book kept for that purpose, of all mone received aud paid out by him, and his accounts svall at all times be open to the inspection of any of the officers of the mayociation. | Me shall pay ont money belonsing to the association ealy upon the written order ot the Chair. Tian of the Regatta Committes or of the President of the association. Sc. 4.—Any vacancies in the lst of officers occurring during the year trom, resignation, death or otherwise, Vt temporarily filled by appointment of the Presi- ent. ARTICLE V. Secrtox 1.—There shail be one annual regatta held at such timo and place as (he ussociation may decide at its annual meeting ot that year. See, 2—Ihe regava shall be upder the control of the Regatta Committee, hereafter provided for. KO, 83. —All college clubs, members of this assoctation, desirioug ot entering for the annual regatta, shali so notify the Secretary of the association at or betore its annual meeting, and no clab shall eoter this association regatta unless a member of the association. ‘SEO. 4,—The atia. Commiuce shall offer each year flags which shall be held by the college winning them as emblerns for the championship ot that year. Sec. K—All college clubs taking P gb in this regatta shail strictly observe all rules and regulations which shail be adopted by the association, and shall abide by the decision of the referee, whose decision shall be final in all cases. Any club failing to comply with the pro- visions of this section shall be lable to expulaion trom the association. ARTICLE ¥ BVI. Saorton 1.—The Regatta Cominittee shall consist of one delegate trom each club belonging to the association, and shall be appointed at the annual meeting of the Association, and shall hold office tor one year trom that date, or until thetr successors be appointed. Sec. 2—{tshall be the duty of this committee to make and carry out all arrangements which they may deem necessary tor the complete success of the regatta. All expenses which the committee may incur for the above purpose shall be divided equally among all the clubs participating in the regatta, ‘320, 8.—Itshall be the duty of this committee to ap- point some suitable person who shall act as referee at the annual regatta, ARTICLE vit Sxction 1.—There shall be an annual meeting of the as- sociation held on the first Wednesday in April, at such place as the association may decide upon at it’ annual meeting ef the year immediately preceding. SEC. At this meeting the time, place and style of the noxt annual regatia shall be decided, and a sct ot rules and regu Perla adopted which shall be strictly observed t said regatta. at ies At this meeting all questions of dispute between any membersof clubs belonging to the association shall be submitted to the association, and its decision shail be final in all cases. Any members or clubs tailing to com- ply. with the provisions of this section shall be lable to expulsion from the association. ARTICLE VUIt. ‘Any club may be expelled trom the association by a two-thirds vote of all members present at any anoual ee ARTIOLS 1x. There shall be one yearly assessment, of such amount as the association may decide, upon all members of the associat ‘ours anTICLE x. ‘This constitution may be altered and amended at any annual meeting of the association by a t..o-thirds vote of the members present. * puENTS.—I, ADY college not represented In any nual regatta shail thereby loge its membership in the eats and representation in the convention of the sociation. * Passed April 2, 1873, by third annual convention, COLLNGES OF THE ASSOCIATION, Amherst, Bowdoin, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dart- month, Marvard, Massachusetts Agricultural, ‘Trinity, Williains, Yate. ‘THE FABMER BOYS’ VICTORY. ‘This year the Springfield Club generously gave a set of champion colors and six pieces of plate, and at 7b. 5m. 31348. that afternoon the sixes of Har- vard, Brown ana the Aggies all.got away in fine style with an idea of obtaining the permanent ownership of said trophies. The weather was clear and fine, the air and water quiet. Nobody had ever heard of the Aggies and so did not expect to, but long before that eventful quarter of an hour was over both Harvard and Brown formed their acquaintance in @ way that has fastened itself firmly, and will hkely not be forgotten for years to come. With a light crew, eight pounds a man lighter than the Harvards and a trifle heavier than Brown, these tough farmer boys put second alter second between their rivals as they shot away hard down stream. The vetting had been 18 on Harvard to 12 on Brown to 4 on the strangers, and it showed how accu- rate was the general judgment by being wrong in every particular. The farmers led the Cambridge men all the way to the finish, being there thirty- seven seconds ahead and the latter, twenty-four | ahead of Brown, while the Aggies made the aston- ishingly fast time of 16m. 4648., incorrectly re- ported at first as 17m. 42's, This surely was a new turn of things, to see the oldest college in the land, and one that had built up a long and brilliant record for aquatic prowess, forced to give way to an institution small and ob- scure, But from it to-dav Princeton may pluck up heart, and so might Union, of Schenectady, and Rutgers and West Point and the Western Re- serve and the midshipmen. Saratoga Lake, as we have said, is broad enough for all, and before nightfall, if all goes well, will prove whether she has not for the demands of a national regatta facilities unequalled. THE SUMMER OF 1872 sawasight welcome and altogether new in the rowing record of the country. Instead of two or three colleges alone contending for the honor, when the eventful day came six different six- oared crews from a8 many universities or colleges drew into line. Ingteside had given little satisfac- tion, fewer people having gone to see the race than were ever present before or since at one of these gatherings. So @ change was prompuy made this year—a little lower down the Oonnecti-+ cut, from a point opposite the lower end of Springfield to another three mules further down stream and @ little above the finish of 1873. In- deed, it haa been plain from the start that hese contests, to be successful must take place near & city, where friends can be cared for, provisions had and the many numerous wants of numerous people used to comfortabie living rightly looked after. The six contending colleges were Amherst, Harvard, the Agriculturals, Bow- doin, Williams and Yale—for it was hard work jaying away; while in the Freshman Race another stranger—Wesleyan—put in her maiaen appear- ance, Brown, too, and Yale and Amherst keeping her company. And now yet another surprise was in store for all people interested im good rowing. For not only was the very fast time of the last year—faster than wil be made to-day—fairly beaten, but the crew that did the beating paid no allegiance to Elina Yale or John Har- vard, nor was it yet Agricultural, but from an institution in the same town as the latter, and one, too, which has gtven us one of the most renowned of American divines—Henry Ward Beecher—old Amherst, S1x- teen minutes and thirty-two seconds, fourteen and @ half seconds better than the rapid work of 1871, was the official time announced at the close, white Harvard made @ fair second in 16m. 678.; the Aggies were third in 17m. 19s., Bowdoin fourth in 17m, 818., Williams next in 17m. 598., and Yale, evidently rusty after her long pouting spell, sixth in 18m..588, THE ENTRIES OF 1873. Now these races were beginning to assume ff not unwieldy at least tormidable proportions, and Many thought that in poipt of numbers the climax was already reached. But they were wrong again, for, Many as there seemed in 1872, when the entries of 1873 were closed aud counted over there were, instead of stx, almost twice six. New Hampshire had contributed her sturdy Dartmouth; Connecti- cut added Wesleyan; the Empire State her young giant of rapid growth, Cornell, and thinking she might need some city boys, too, had adaed Columbia, while the home of the wooden nutmegs subscribed little Trinity. Eleven six-oared crews all to row abreast, and yet to have no crowding, no fouling. This was a good deal to look for, but still 1t was undoubtedly to be tried, for one after nother the crews aropped down to Springfield and took up their quarters along the river. Boat- builders and oarmakers had been working almost night and day, and for weeks together. The active boating interest of the country was centred in Springfield, Meauwhile, as has been too olten the case where students had the management, THE MANAGEMENT was very poor. The city had appotnted a commit- see to help the students, but both seem to have been shamefully inefficient or neglectful, and as the time drew near, and the crowd began to gather, much was undone that should have been all arranged and attended to. At the starting time the boats were crowded so closely together as to almost touch oars, Harvard and Yale, for instance, being but forty-four feet apart. The river bad fallen very low, the course was crooked, and a sand bar with scarce a foot and a hall of water and near half a mile long lay right in the track of some of the crews, only to be avoided by a détour evidently unjust, At the finish the line was so drawn that even to this day there is much honest difference asto just where it did run. Instead of the race being started promptly at four—a matter of vital Importance where many thousands are inter- ested—there was noone who seemed to have the power or spirit to order the crews out and send them off. No proper accommodations were pro- vided for the referee, and he had to do the best he could towards finding means to see the race, when his say was 80 final. Four ‘o’ciock, as to-day, was the time fixed. It came, and quarter past, and half and five o'clock, and not one crew had shown, and no one seemed trying to collect them. Half past fivé passed, and then six struck. Now they began to crawl out, and by fifteen minutes later it began to look LIKE A RACE. At6h. 20m. on Thursday afternoon, July 17, Franc G. Brown, Captain of the Nassau Boat Club, of New York city, cautioned the crew, and then gave the word “Gol”? Harvard at once showed well to the front, and it was not many minutes before she and her old rival Yale had again paired off, each seeming bound to make up for 1870. They swept on down stream, Harvard a trifle ahead and the others trailing along ina bunch not far behind. 1s was coming on dusk as they got down towards the grand stand. The referee’s boat was some distance behind, and as they crossed the line some on one side of the river and some on the other, it was anything but a light task for him or any one else to say WHO WAS THE WINNER. To people on one side of the river it seemed to be Harvard, to those on the other Yale, with Wes- leyan second and Harvard third, and so at last, after much discussion and doubt, tne referee concluded that Yale nad first crossed a line which, had it been correctly drawn, would have been reached first by Harvard. Indeed the latter had supposed they had won, and some one on the judges’ boat had, through mistake, given her men the flags, which they took to their boatnouses; but, on learning, to their great surprise, that the decision had gone for Yale, promptly turned them over. The fact seems to be that Yale really sup- posed she had won, and Harvard that she had, and it was this doubt that accountea for the marked quiet prevailing in Springfield on the atght after a contest which used im other years to bring @ noisy hilarity and glee that all who ever ob- served it cannot readily forget. Yale certainly had done better than was generally expected, ana her captain and one other of her men of that year are hoping bard ere nightfall to take and carry away from all competitors the crown of victory for 1874. ' PREVIOUS RACES. The Record of Other Years. UNIVERSITY CREWS. Date. Course, Contestants, Avge. 3, 1852.—Lake Winnipiseogee, Centre Harbor, two mules to wind- ward. Oneida, Harvard. Won by two lengths, Halcyon, Yale (8-oared barges) JULY 21, 1865.—Counecticut River, Spring. fleld, Mass., one and a nalf miles down stream and back. Iris, Harvard (soared barge). Y. Y., Harvard (4-oared barge) Nereid, Yale (6-oared) .. Nautilus, Yale (6-oared) . JULY 26, 1959.—Lake Quinsigamond, Wor- cester, Mass,, one and @ halt miles up the lake and back. Harvard (shell) Yale (shell)... Harvard (lapstreak). Brown (lapatreak) ... ICLY 2%, 1860.—same course, Harvard. Yale... Brown. JULY 29, 1864.—Same course. Yale. Time. a IJULY 28, 1865.—sume Yale..... 182424 Ha 18:00 JOLY 27, 1866.—Same c ‘Harvard 18:43% Yale. 19:10 JOLY 19, 1867.—sam Harvard 18 :12% Yale... 1912535 JULY 24, 1868.—Same Harvard, Yale. JULY 23, 1869.—Same Harvard, Yale..... JULY 22, 1870.—Same course. Harvard Yale,.... JOLY 21, 1871.—Connecticut River. & eld, Mass., down stream. Agricultural.... Harvard Brown... JOLY 24, 1872.—Same course, Amlierst.... Harvard.. Agricultural Bowdoin.. Williams, Yale..... MINOR CREWS. JULY 27, 1359.—Lake Quiusigamond, Wor- cester, Mass., one and @ half _ Miles up and back, Yale Harvard (shell) Harvard (shell)... ++ 19316 JULY 24, 1860.—Same course. Haivard Freshmen’s Thetis (lapstreak) ..... veveee 19:40: Yale Freshmen’s Glyuna (lap- streak) ......+ JULY 24, 1860.—Same course. Harvard Sophomore’s Haidee (ispetreak) i. seseee 20217 Yale Sophomore’s Thalia BEUTEMK) oo... ese JULY 29, 1864,—Same course. ring. pring- three miles arvard Sophomores... Yale Sophomor JULY 29, 1865.—Same course. | (ale. 1920596 Harvar 19:20 JULY 27, 1866.—Same c Harvard, 1 entific Minors, ... 18:53% Yule Mini * + 19:38 | JOLY 19, 1867.—Sume course. Yale Minors... + 1933814 Harvard Minors. 20:06 JULY 2%, 1869.—same course, Harvard Freshmen. 19:30 Yale Freshmen... JUNE 22, 1870.—Same course, Yale Minors .. Harvard Minors. JULY 22, 1870.—same course. Yale Freshmen... Harvard Freshmen... . JULY 21, 1871.—Connecticut River, Spring- field, three miles down stream, Harvard Freshmen. Brown Freshmen, JuLY 24, 1872.—Same course. Wesleyan Freshmen Yale Soientitic Freshmen Brown Freshmen, Alnherst Freshmen q JULY 11, 1873.—Course a litue lower down stream. Yale.... Wesleyan RACE RULES. The rules which governed last year’s race are, with the additional ones following them, correct for this and run as follows:— 1. Ali races shail be started in the following manner :— Tne starter shall ask the question, “Are you ready?” and, receiving no reply atter waiting ‘at least five seconds qhall give the signal to start, which the wa. ceryt 2. If the starter considers the start unfair he shall at once recall the boats to their stations, and any boats re- fusing to start again shall be ruled out of the race, 8. A start shall be considered unfair if, during the first ten strokes, any of the competing boats shall be disabled by the breaking of an our or any other accident. . No tor ‘Whatever shall be allowed. 5. Itas the province of the referee when appealed to, but not betore, to decide a foul, and the boat decided by him to have fouled shall be ruled out ot the race. 6 In case of a foul, the referee, if appealed to during the race, shall direct the non-louling boat to row on, which shall, in every case, row over the remainder of the course in order to claim the race. 7. It shali be considered @ toul when, after @ race haa commenced, any competitor by hus oar, boat or per son comes in contact with the oar, boat or peraon ot ai other competitor; and noting else shall i fou! & “Any competitor who comes into contact with an- other competitor, as defined iu rule 7, by crossing into his competitor's water, commits a foul; but when a boat has ouce fairly tken ‘another boat's water bya clear load it has a right to keep the water 40 taken, 9. A boi sll be decided to have a clear lead of an- other boat when its stern is clearly past the bew of the other boat. 10, It shall be held that a boat's own water fs the straight or true course from the station aasigned to it at starting: but if two boats are racing, and one fairly, takes the other's water by a clear lead, it shall be en Uitled to keep the water so taken to the end of the course, and if the two boats aiterwards come into contact while the lead.ng boat remains in the water so taken the boat whose water has been so taken shall be deemed to have committed the foul; but if they come Into contact by the Teading boat departing from the water so taken the leads ing boat shall be deemed to have commitied a foul, IL, ihe referee shall be sole judge of a boat's straight or true course during every part ot the race. 12, It in any race in which more than two boats start a fonl takes place, and the boat adjndged by the referee to have been fouled reaches the winning post first, the race shail be decided as the boats come in; but ifthe boat fouled does not come in first, or it the referee is un- able to decide which boat nas committed the foul, the race shall be rowed over again, unless the referee shall decide that the boat which came in tirst had 4 sufficient lead at the moment of the foul to warrant its having the Tace assigned to it. 3, A claim of foul (which must be tendered by the captain of the crew considering itself fouled, and not oy any one on his behalf must be made to the referee pre- Viously to the crew fouled getting out ot the boat.: 14. Every boat shall stand by its own accidents occur ring during the race. 15, In the event of @ dead heat taking place the same crews shall contend again, or the crew or crews refusing shall be adjudged to have lost the race. 16, No boat shall be allowed to accompany a competing boat tor the purpose of directing its course or affording other assistance; and the referee shail be at liberty to deeiare any competing out of the race that may have derived an untair ad bw} thereby. 17, No race shall be awarded to any competitor or crew unless he or they shall bave rowed over the whole of the course. Pes The decision of the referee shall in ali cases be nal. Whe new ones being RULES FOR THE REGATTA. July 15, Single Sculi Race, half-past three P. M. Freshman Kace immediately thereafter. July 16, University Race, tour 2. M. Forty minutes before each race a gun will ve fired to repare. Perhirty minutes laver @ second gun will be fired to draw to line, ‘Ten minutes later the signal to start will be given. .No deiay will be encouraged or allowed, and the crews in line will be positively started at the time named. All races shall be started in the following mauner:— The starter shali ask the question, “Are you ready and receiving no reply, after waiting Bt least five seconds shall give the signal to start by the firing of a istol. i Crews will rendezvous on the east shore of the lake, near the starting line, in ample time to preventany de- ay. Persons designated to hold the boats at the starting line to report on board the steamer at Moon's dock at on lock on the day of each race. . B.—In practising, crews rowing trom the start to the finish shall have right of way, and crews rowing in other directions must keep clear of the course. THE THREE GREAT RACING COURSES. Saratoga, Springfield, Lake Quinsigamond. 1935855 We are happity able to lay before our readers to-day not only @ diagram of the course which, if it has not already, before nightfall will become more notable than any other in America, but also sketches of the two principal courses which have in the past been the scene of the great college aquatic contests. The Saratoga Course. Scarcely more important is it before giving battle to choose and know well yéur ground than in pre- paring for a friendly bout with the oars to choose and know well the water. No one is better aware of this than the veteran professional. When about to rowarace he will be on the water weeks in advance, studying its every eddy and current, how the wind strikes it, where he can work to best advantage, and many more things which he who ts to risk much ought to know. Bat in the selection of an area for @ battle like that of to-day many other things have to be considered. For these meetings draw together not simply the rowers themselves, but friends in multitudes, relatives, partisans, old oarsmen, strangers fond of manly sports and many more ‘of every rank and station, No better proof could be had, if desired, of this than a look at the influx into Saratoga during the last seven days. The press, to be sure, has contributed much towards it, laying before the public all done and to be done and the pleasure to be had if the trip Was made; but there has been one steady, ceaseless tide of a general, well-bred humanity glad of an opportunity to combine @ visit to the famous Springs with a sight of our principal aquatic, and, it may be added, athletic spectacle, For, fond a8 we may think ourselves of outdoor sports, there is but one athletic event in the whole year in which the interest felt is at all gen- eral or about which we stop and read, and that is this ssme University Race. It, like men, gains much of its best strength from its character, for it is well known that there need be no suspicion of unfair play in these contests, or anything else not entirely frank and manly. Never once, to their credit be it said, have these races | developed anything not strictly fair, even the habit ailowed in the English University races of the leading boat ‘‘washing” the other being discoun- tenanced here, as jockeying and unworthy of gen- tlemen. ‘The question of what water will best suit these trials of speed has of late years wholly changed. | Up through 1870, with a rare exception, but two | boats at a time competed, and so @ narrow course | like that of Lake Quinsigamond did very well, But when, with the coming years, new colleges clam- ored for representation, a track had to be found adequate to the’ growing demand. And not in rows alone, for there 1s Plenty of water in almost any part of the country broad | and nearly smooth enough to suffice for several crews to row ON Gbreast; and our many lakes | and ponds would no doubt furnish abundant room | for work where the dangerous element of current | would be omitted; but when the other requisites i are looked at, the quartering and caring for the rowers and their property, and providing for friends and visitors numbering many thousands, | it will be seen at once that there must at least be | abundant hotel room close at hand. TOR PROBLEM, then, reduces itself to finding @ course intrinst- cally good, lying neara city or large town, ca- pable of accommodating many strangers. A look at any place heretofore tried will show that no Jair solution of this problem has, up till now, been found, Had the water near either place named been all 1t should be, neither of them would long suit, for the reason that they have hotel ac- commodations suMotent for only ordinary de- | nor and it would not pay to build more extensive ones, This does not hold good of Saratoga, because Lt is a place which in one month of the year has @ great accession of visitors, and has places for them, while nearly all the iest of the time many of those places are vacant, in July, for instance, this holds partly good, and in July these meetings are held, Moreover, the majority of their frequenters are used to a large degree of home comfort, and do not like to be stowed away of @ hot summer night, as they had to be at Spring- field or Worcester, in & room with a number of total strangers, and as many of them have often | been here purposely for relaxation and Know that | they will be well taken care of, Saratoga’s chances of keeping these races seems very good. But the principal element in rendering them so is the great and prompt care taken by her in all things Dertaining to the races themselves, down even to the minutest detatl The people here nearly all show that they are used to meeting persons well- to-do and influential, and that knowledge stands them oow Io admirable stead. The income it may bring their town may be a motive, but it is likely that the added reputation ts a mach stronger one, And then again, this lake ts certainly a most de- sirable place for rowing. The fastest oarsmen this country ever turned out—the Ward Brothers and tueir rivals, the Biglims—botn speak in glow- ing praise of it, pronouncing it without exception the finest course they ever saw. England, @ Greater racing country by far, has probably othing like it, the fitful gusts that in almost @ ‘moment lash Windermere and her northern sisters into white caps rendering them dangerous Places in which to hazard shell rowing. A BEAUTIFUL LAKB from five to six miles long, is surrounded by pretty, though not grand or striking scenery. The shores, while neither abrupt nor very high, still afford good shelter from the winds, although, fortunately, these races came ata time of year when the wind seldom blows long or fiercely, An eye to the future is manifestin allthe doings of these people in connection with to-day’s contest, the substantial nature of the numerous boat- houses erected and the thorough and hearty way of WORKING OF THB VARIOUS COMMITTBES abundantly evincing thia Tuere as in past years been talk enough of com mittees of the citizens to aid, and often at Worcester they did considerable to help, but the oarsmen could not avoid feeling that they were causing them trouble, a fear which the universal good nature aud prompt and vigorous action here througout this year nas entirely dix pelled. Indeed, the many committees work 80 well together that their work does not seem hard atall, This ig a place of rest and play, far more 80 than etther busy New England city named, or, in fact, any other save Newport. « ADVANTAGES OF SARATOGA. Then, again, for the more distant univer- sities and colleges—Harvard and Dartmouth | on the east, Princeton south, and, Cornell west—it is about central, while an hour, more or less, of car riding is not a matter to stand long over. Build one more railroad track, and, unless somé unthought-of fault comes up to- day, Saratoga Lake will become what for over twenty years we have been seeking—the perma- nent battle ground of the American untversitics. The rumor has gone about that should Harvard | win this year she will retire from the association, but by excellent authority this statement is con- | tradicted, and as three of this year’s crew do not graduate there is probably nothing to be feared in this direction, There is appparently equally litte fear that THAT GREAT BUGBRAR, Morrissey, will corrupt the youth, as he is reported to be determined that no student shail be ad- mitted to bis club house. Of the three crews which contended last year at Springflela, and which are all absent now—Amherst, the Am herst Agriculturals and the Bowdoin—the Amberst made Morrissey’s presence and the tempt- tations he offered a prominent one of their reasons, if not their chiefone, for not coming to Saratoga, This objection was promptly met by Rev. LL & Rowland (an Amherst graduate, I think, and pas- tor of the Congregational church here), in writing last winter to Professor Hitchcock, of Amherst College, and willbe appropriate here in reply to the charges of the Springfield paper just quoted. After asserting that he does not write in the in- terest of the Saratoga Rowing Association or of John Morrissey, he continues :— “Allow me, therefore, to say, with all the em- phasis of italics, that I regard the objections urged against Saratoga on the score of the immorality of infinence of Mr. John Morrissey here is exagger- ated a thousand fold. He does not rule Saratoga’ and, as far as I am aware, he does not care to rule it. His operations here are limited to two institutions—the races and tne | club house. As regards the former, I am not aware j that they differ, except in magnitude, essentially | from races heldelsewhere, They are attended by | sporting men as races alwaysare. They are accom- panied by betting and pool-selling, and so, I ven- ture to say, are the races held every year in the | goodly cities of Springfield and Hartford, The we hope to see abated in time, but let the commu- nity that is without any public scandal of the kind cast the first stone at Saratoga. The races are pat- ronized mainly by strangers who come bere for the porpose of attending them, and as they are held only one or two weeks in the year it is difficult to see how they can imperil the morality of the stu- dents who attend the regatta. “But the great bugbear that seems to have propriety is the club house. The character of that institution is greatly misunderstood by people who have never been here. ONLY A CLUB HOUSE. It is not @ public gambling house, but a strictly private institution like the club houses in our large cities, to which none but the initiated can gain admittance, except by special request and permission, It began a8 a public house, but Mr. Morrissey was forced at ence to change its charac- ter. Gambling is still supposed to be the principa, object of the frequenters of the place, but the busi- ness is carried on entirely beyond the reach of the public eye. It ts the men who have their thousands rons,and unless Amherst students have more money to spend than when I was at college I think that Mr. Morrissey would regard them as game beneath his notice. Indeed, I have learned on good author ity that no young man is admitted to the estab- lishment unless accompanied by some responsible senior. Mr. Morrissey is very careful not to ont rage public sentiment too far, and I venture to predict that the students who visit the regatta will find it impossible to get into the estabiish- ment, even if they desired, and of course stadents from Amherst would not wish totry, * © * “It is indeed sup, d with good reason that Mr, Morrissey is secretly opposed to the regatta, and would deteat it if be had any power to do so, as the auspices under which it is to be conducted will be the most telling rebuke of his own proceedings that could be given and must tend to his aowniall. Mey should not Amherst give us her countenance and help to make the occasion a kind of missionary enterprise against evil 7" THE GREATEST SCANDAL. Mr. Rowland asserts that Saratoga has as quiet @ population as most New England towns, al- though its church attendance may be less, = “'The | greatest scandal,’’ he says, ‘that 1 have noticed since I have been here is that occasioned by the | prurient curiosity of Coristian people irom abroa clergymen as well as laymen, who have seeme more anxious to get @ peep at the inside of Mr. | Morrissey’s establishment, and to avail them- selves of their treedom irom the restraints of home to atcend the races, than to drink our | waters, or to attend our prayer meetings. | This accounts for the fact that they know so much more about the vices of the piace than the | Stated residents. If they were as anxious to see | the good as they are the evil they would carry | back to their homes ® somewhat different account | of the moral condition of the place. The Curistian | people of Saratoga are in the main too Puritanical | to visit the haunts of vice even irom motives 01 Cu- riosity.”* THE MANAGEMENT OF THE RACK. Of the management of the race he 6a)8:— “1 believe that the association will be equally | ! successful with the College Regatta, They ha | the support of the whole body o! our respectable citizenship; in fact, the whole community | ts thoroughly in earnest in the matter, We are determined to kee | vice, if in order to do tt we all have to be en- | rolled as special policemen, and to call out the militia in support olorder, Selfish considerations, Af nothin, 6, Will keep the association faithful to its pledges, it is their hope to make the regatta a ermanent institution of Sarat and they an. | derstood periectly well that the moral demande of the colleges must be met in order to secure that end, You mas congratulate vanruall my agar gir, the place as without soundation -in fact. The | public selling of pools is indeed @ nuisance whtch | frightened our New England friends from their | to,risk upon whom the proprietor depends as pat | the afair free from | in one , on the position you have takeng the spur it bas given to their Vigilance will make the assurance of the Rowing Association doubly sore. | believe the result wilt make it clear to yourself, and even to my redoubtavle Hartford brotuer, that bende is not yet quite ripe for che fate of the Cities of the Plain.” The following extract from the columns of the Springfield Republican of the race day last year, duly 11, will show the shape and grounds of the opposition, ag made by a paper of a place with @ rival course, and its spirtt and motives can readily be observed as one reads tt, I quote tt, indecent innuendoes and all, a3 about the most condensed and vigorous summing up of the opposition to baving this contest nereto-day:— SARATOGA OR SPRINGFIELD. It is a fact within the knowledge of many Of our readers—inough 1s will undoubtedly be news to more—that a strong push was made to capture the regatta this year apd carry it into disgrace/ul cap- tivity 8¢ Sarato; Mr, John OTLneny gave the students to understand that he st rei w assume all the expenses, to provide prizes, and to foot the bilia for the support of tue cre’ if they would leave that Purttanical Springfeld the larch and come to the Springs. 1° was a te: ble temptation. fo the boys of the Little ap-coume try colleges especially these regatta expenses are @ Very serious matter, But is Was resisted. The boys were proof. Mr, Morriasey was civilly givem to understand that the regatta was not for sale. He is not the man to be discouraged by a single rebut, however, aud it 1s already evident that an- other and more determined attempt is to be made upon the undergraduate virtue. The main busi- ness of a number of the visiting newspaper cor respondents, metropolitan and other, now im Springfleld, is to write cown the Connecticut Biver course and the city, in the Saratoga interest, They are doing Mr. Morrissey’s work; whethes they have seen the color of Mr. Morrissey’s mone; Or are working gratuitously we can't say, That & matter between them and their employers, We may add that the {nnkespers of Saratoga are very nearly or quite as carnest tn this business as thei distinguished townsman. The regatta would meam gee in their rooms and greenbacks in their tilla, t Would add a good fortnight or three weeks to “the season.’? ey could weil afford to go snacks: in Mr, Morrissey's brine; it would be a shrewd ees investment—sure to pay, and pay bande somely. But we fancy that Mr. Morrissey and the Sara- toga Bonilaces are doomed to disappointments that it i a rather pronounced case of sour grapes. ‘There are a few things, thank God, still leit in thie country that money can’t buy, and we believe this regatta to be of the number, At the last meett of their ugsocia@tion, the young fellows, its present owners, formally voted thas it should not be dragged down by the gambiers to the level of the ordinary “sporting event" if they could help isy that Sey would do ail in miate pomee to save it from such a fate and keepict what {t was originall designed to be—a (riendly contest among gentle- mon for honor and not for money. They have shown Bo Milapostsion as yet to go back on thi declaration. If their effort to get rid of the gaimb- lers was met rather coldly and inbarmoniously at first by our local and State authorities the practi cally complete suppression of pool selling yester. day was an earnest that they were moe to be left elone in the effort to keep the spore clean, ‘they must see, they must be conscwas, that that effort is seconded and supplemented by @ controlling public sentiment, a sentiment pow erial enough to make the gamblers fect uncom fortable and ill at ease tn Springfield and long fog @ more congental chmate. It is the same puoll sentiment that has enabled Springfield to keep it trottiag course cleaner, moraily speaking, tham any other in the country. The people of Springs field are with the undergraduates in this thing heartily and thoroughly. Yo remove the regatta from this New Engl: river and this New Engiand community will be expose it to needieas danger. ‘To sell tt out to M John Morrissey, of the Saratoga club house, woul be to cut tts throat outright. There would be ne misunderstanding that transaction. College facuities, parents, the press, the public generally, would all see it in one light, We shall not believ: iu the possibility of such @ folly—to call it by harsher uame—untll we see tt committed, The Springfield Course, made so famiitar to all by the great race there last summer, commenced where the Connecticut nar rows below the city, as shown at the point X im the diagram, to 800 or 900 feet, and stretches away three miles down stream, widen~ ing gradually. It too, like the others, ites north and south, but, unlike them, has some current, Unfortunately the race of last year fell at a time when the good people of Springfield claim that the ‘water was unusually iow, lower than it nad beem | for many seasons. However this may be, there | certainly were long shallows here and there over | the course, in some places the water being scarcely | 9 toot ana’a half deep. The crew that had for half | 9 mile or more, as bad Cornell, to pull over such @ course, with their oars almost or altogether touch- ing the bottom, might well complain that beside | those in mid-channel, feeble though the current was, they could do themselves no justice. It is pretty hard to get yourself ready for a whole year together for a struggle with your fellows, and alter practising long self denial, bodily labor, severer | and more protracted than you ever knew before, and sacrificing much time and nota iittle money, to find your efforts worse than thrown away by | your being In the hour of trial pushed over on toa | part of the track unfit for you or any one else te contend on equal terms with your antagonist. Is is more than likely if such hazards were to be rum by you again tbat you would have nothing todo with the race. And yet, tn addition to this formid- able objection to the Springfield course, there is another even worse, one not fitful or the conse- quence of any one year’s caprice, but one inheren® in the course itself and which cannot well be re- moved. It is nothmmg more nor less tiidn that the | river here is crooked, so that for ten or a dosem boats to row from agiven starting line and yet ullow eack enough room to avoid fouling its neign- | bor and still row @ race absoiutely fair is, saving on one condition, impossible. That condition is one that is extremely diMcult, indeed im- | practicable tO require, and that is that the | boats row in lanes. As it was last year, the starte \ ing line was drawn across the river at right | angles with its course. To draw the other ti | miles away around the bend or the river at night | angies there with its course would be glari uniair; 80 a diagonal line was run, meant to fatruess to all, and without inquiring how well succeeded it is enough to say that it was possibie for one crew to row from tue start and cross the fintsh line and do actually less than three mil while another, seeming yet to steer well, mig! really do more than three. But in these save, when boats and oars and even men have improv so over those of past years, and races are won by sections and fractions of a second instead of minutes, @ current, however slight, or a bend im | the course, is keenly felt, and should, if possibl | be avotded. The wind will blow anywhere, and it can touch water will rue it and so bazar somewhat the conditions of arace; but crook | streams and currents can ne avoided, and ina | conflict where so much ts staked a# uére surely | ought to be. | .,The good name of the Springfleld course sufferea also much last year from the wretched mismanage- | ment of the races themselves. The city had ® ; Committee and so had the stadents, and as each relied on the @gher, nothing, as usual, was als | either, The referee’s boat ran short of good c Just when she was most needed, and'he had te accept the hospitalties of the H#RALD steam fee no one knew definitely where lay the finis® | tne, two of the boats instead of being placed at least 100 fees apart at the start were only 443 | the Freshman crews were to start at three and did not get off until two hours later; the University likewise; there was no system abous \ getting the boats into line, but they came dragging: along down one alter anotaer, doug each otuer no good. There were eleven judges at the Gnism where four would have been a muititude, ai | two, or even one, enough; it was nearly dusk wi the great event of the day came off; no one coud tell who won; the unilorms of vhe crews were not suffictentiy varied, so thas | they might be swittly singled out, and the resule was @ decision which ts still in so much doubt thas over and over it was remarked that of the ola time uproarious enthusiasm which made all Wor cester ring and the everflowing halls of the Bay State Hotel fairly rock, there was hardly any as all. All the elements of @ great race were the: | and yet the sad bungling that marked alm | every step of the work spotied itall. Springfeid has yet to Know the true fun and jollification of @ ' great boat race, Wuen poot Dunham was drowned the race was abruptly and paintully terminated: and now, When even passable ge tg woul have carried all through well, nothing was well. ' done at ali. It should be added that @ marked event in col- iege boating—Springfeld (Ingleside)—saw the first change {rom the old Worcester turning race— namely, the siraightaway—a chauge now never: likely to be turned back. Lake Quinsigamond Course. In the heart of Massachusetts, nestling quietly among the Worcester hills, lies a pretty lake three. or tour miles long, bearing the quaint old Indian name Quinsigamond. It ts not wide, being scarcely anywhere much over quarter of a mile, while the southern half of ts ts eo dotted with islands and tte water ts so shallow as to make {t about impossibie to get much of a racing stretch there. But, divid. ing it near the centre, there used to ran @ poRtoom: | bridge, and now an earthen road keeps up the old | turnpike over which Dan Webster perhaps often | rode to circuit, between Worcester two milee west, and Boston, forty-two east. That part of the | lake to the north was that which has become sa | familiar in Yale and Harvard tradition, and as the, light craft of each shot once tn each July out through the little opening of the bridge, each bearing six stout hearts, and sped swiftly a 4 ‘up the west shore to and past the foot ot thi grand stand, it is not singalar if the thrill Vouched pach rowar aa pusagds Qf ficoda