The New York Herald Newspaper, July 16, 1874, Page 12

7 qoren ont their best applause is not yet orgotten, er that it made every oue of them on that entiul Tesolve to row even better than | best. the west bank the hills are | Digh and wooded, Mount Wigwam capping | them alla mile or ‘more from the start, while on the east the land rises leas abruptly, though still suMciently to afford considerable shelter irom the ‘winds. Indeed, this well-known old course and its ‘of to-day are not Unlike m many Respects, ox ae four or five times longer than wide, and botn lie north and south. e ia the more uniformly sheltered, though from ‘three times as broad the wind gets some advan . Neither bas apy noticeable curreat $ it, and go offers one guarantee Of good racing, itis miles from each to fown—two to Worcester, four to the Springs—and the former, besides an un- monly dusty road, coukl by the cars of the ton ana Worcester Railroad land many passen- ra from both places handy to the water; @ fact t, as far more of her irtends than her rivals | hailed from astern Massachusets, Harvard on Face days in no way tted; while Saratoga, with longer drive and uo car nding, has yet, te the energy of her sons, provided for keep- Ing sbis really good road well watered and in order for the travellers by wheel or foot. THE CONTESTANTS OF 1874, Who They Are and Where They €ome From. 4 ‘The Columbia Crew. Virst ™ order alphabetically this year come ‘We pet crew of New York city, the men of Colum- | Bia College. Last year, under the supervision of muscle over the largest part of the triceps, while, measured in the ordimary way, aa oe it was fourteen and three-quarters, w! Dana’s was fourteen and one-quarter, There is nothing penny oe clumsy, though, about Goodwin, tail as he te. more one looks at a crew like this the more seems the pity that this strength could not be made the most of. Already the complaint is that they are down far too thin and fine, and it is hard to get flesh back in this hot weather. The old crazy system of traming that Coulter taught them—nothing but meat and old bread and 4 little potato—is working a8 it always does work and Goubtiess aiways Will, ‘The idea of doing without ee Vegetables right in their season! One would ink that men who thought at ali Jor themselves would know better. What sense is there in train- race, spending time and ry tabor, apd aiter a crew ts fv ed mto working order, feeding them on food which, instead of longing for, they loathe? It was like getting Heenan’s muscics like marbie, and Srepinng ali about his vitality, and then ting whipped in a canter by a Smaller man e King, A man at the top of bis condition dc Dot feel @: and sober and all gone, but ul common), ht and springy, and when he is 80 there wil usually be found @ little fesh on his ribs, The Men of Dartmouth. There is something solid, too, about that name. It suggests Daniel Webster and ‘she great college law case, and White Mountains and rocks and things stanch and firm and staple. And yet in this sort of work they do not want to be s0 stable, but to move right along, and to move 80 fast as to beat the others, They came up last year to Springfield, the tallest men of all, and, lke Cornell, the heaviest. But these big men dit not Know how to use their strength, and they trained in a system which was exceedingly successiul in taking whatever the stroke of the Ward crew, “Hank,” they | trained first on the Hariem River and later on | strength they had. Just look at it! Three wiles of walking betore breakfast, when most men are weak from being twelve or fourteen hours the Connecticut, He overworked them atany rate | empty, and do not feel like work; six miles of at Great, giving them both too much rowing and too | much walking. For heavy, burly men, who have | grown phiegmatic and lazy, this may work well | enough; but for an active city youth, more or less | im trating all the time, tt does not pay, as they | found then, and so siackened work on reaching | Springfield. Last year they averaged about 151, | and, though thought fair, there was con- | siderable awkwardness among them, and | wo they were booked for a low place | mm the race, Close up to the time | of the race they met with an accident one day | While practising on the river which did their | chances no good. Another crew coming across | their course and stupidly keeping no lookout, ran | them down pretty hard, their bow running into | ‘whe back of one of the Columbia waist oars, Mr. | Rapallo, and making an agly gash, which, of | course, partially unfitted him for work. Notwith- standing this drawback and their mistakes Ta ‘Waining they made a sharp race with several | erews, taking a good place weil up in the centre. Jn one respect both then and now they are ex- ceediBaly Well og, Tyeir boating interests were a | year ago permanently eudowed by the faculty ith an annuity of $1,000, which, of | ‘course, prevents the problem of expense | im preparing for these races from giving | much, if any, trouble, and 18 ts pleasant | to note that only recently the authorities at Trinity have done even better than this, covering | the entire expenses of phe racing crew. This is o | etep in the right direction ana will go far towardg encouraging a hearty, generous health througndut ‘the college, and so sending out men fit to stand whe strain and tear of life and take things as they come. Last fall the Catumbia men, soon after the “commencement of {heir term, set energetically at work about making up this year’s crew. Three of the old men, the three forward ones—Smith, Moore | and Simonds—are out, Timpson, Goodwin aud Grigwoid, all of New York city, taking their places, | Tbey are larger men than their predecessors, | standing each over 5 feet 11 inches, and each | Weighing over 16) pounds. Cornell, too, the | heaviest man last year, has gained, and his | crew bid fair to be one o! the heaviest m the race, averaging close to 158 pounds | B@piece. They have improved markedly since last year, and to-day you hear no one name the fore- | most three wituout including Columbia, some sven placing her first. This is @ long stride jor ber, and, if the confidence is not misplaced, will | go far towards showing that the city boys get a | Meight and gpring about them that the country | boys do not have, and that tells in this shell | racing. They have been out daily, and evidently ike their work, while this general confidence | peems only to do them good. If they should win tt would probably do their college very great good, | especially in New York city; and the day may not | be far off when she will take the pride in this col- | fexe of hers that Boston does in her neignboring @arvard. She certainly has the knack of making Wiends, and if the thirty-four of her practice grow to three or four more in the race she will, jnaeed, make it hot work for any crew to beat her. Her bme shirts and bine and white handkerchiefs alternating will make one need to look sharp to Gistinguish her from Yale, whose bine caps and white shirts alt believe are to be well to the front, Their bow is said to be a little Mighty, but the coarse is so broad and made so plain by the many Duoys that there is good reason to believe he will avoid a foul. In drawing for positions they tell | third from the eastern or farther shore, between | Princeton and Yale, but ail are good enough, so this makes little difference. The Cornell Crew. In 1872 the men of Cornell wanted and tried hard to put in an appearance among their fellows, and ‘were in vigorous training ior that purpose; but, owing to Onancial embarrassments, were unable todoso. But, by carerul management, they last year were enrolied among the cleven, and came up with a team large and powertul, bringing with them a foolish piece of expense—a professional trainer, Henry Couiter, of Pittsburg. One or two of them were stalwart lwoking fellows and at once established that respect for themselves which big Men olten get with very little working and deserve as little. A day or wo before the race one of them, Dutton, took part in the College single scull race, and was beaten almust ont of sight by a poor, thin, | Bbungry-looking fellow from Yale named swift. ‘This lowered the estimate set on them, though not mach, and they went into the University Race very well Hought of. They drew a position outside of all, and were forced either to row across @ gandbar halfa mile long and so shoal that their @ars must have often touched bottom, or else row | and | of New Hampshire, Wi Towing right afterwards, then s nice six-mile row, then some dincer, six miles more row and six more of walk, and finally, alter supper, another three-mile walk to top off with, and that in midsum- mer weather, say like Monday two weeks ago. Is it strange that they were not fit to do their work? All the strangeness would have been rather the other way after such ® dose as that, It was natural enough for them to loaf this year, | and likely enough it was almost the best thing they could do, for it would take their systems almost a year to recruit from such wild treatment. Was It wonderful that one evening as they were getting out of the boat four men vomited? Or that next day they could scarcely crawl about, and some were seriously ill? Though a majority of the men are new they saggest last year’s in several ways. They are again the tallest of all, avel ig over six feet in height. They are almost certainly t fe begvigs Take such ae and put it throug! 100) done his | ‘ale men or Goodwin his few Hi and iy is a) say ere they would atop, But with felt ry Aeratoly, andaysd. § » noting but eer sl th or accuen| cs cP rivals, can ring theif in first, second or third. Good, careful coaching, applied with act and much good nature, but applied—thac ib they Want. It is @ fine thing this year thas ai the pro- fessional trainers, are at last digvarded, Uncom- monly tough men, ti shougs suppose that ali others can stand 88 <ateh, and in consequenee hack them up a8 wezg these men of Dartmouth. ‘There never wae gy of having @ professional trainer @& MCly of the colleges, Never yet for a day bad arvard one, though she had occasionally talkea $i it. Good lungs and vital power these I ‘mouth men seem to have, and they war to-day puil her through past some rf the sipalie! who row better. Of course, t0o, if 18 always to be borne in mind that each crew bas its own tactiés, it may be thi thése stalwart sons n a few minutes alter four thia afrernoon comes and they are getting along well down the second mile, will let out a reef in their backs and skim lightly past some of those who are more popular with the wise ones and those who purport to know. In making up their minds what a crew can do men often show @ strange tendency to think that the college which won the last year will win this, when, in fact, the men are all or nearly all diferent, apd little can be told about them, is glitter and g! of being talked about before the public may be the spur to some ; Others may see that in taking hold of a dim- cult project apd working it BB with energy they make an impression on their fellows sure to tell by | and by; bur often there is au entire or at least a par- ear before effected tial lack of the spirit which the loes not do so well. 80 Much and so the new crew The Harvard Crew. High up on a grassy knoll overhanging the lake in its northwest coruer and quite near Mr. Leslie’s grounds is a large and rather imposing white building, the external appearance of which is rather pretentious, but on entering which a@ feel- ing of disappointment creeps over one; for the floors are bare and almost damp, ana, with the | Uncut grass outside, gives the whole place an air of negiect. Tue walls are about as bare as the floors, and though in these annual jaunts to train- ing quarters Harvard—for this 1s her temporary home—has hit upon some quarters where the Opportunmies for selfdenial were excellent, she has succeeded in this direction this time perhaps better than ever. Going behind the house ana along down the back lot an eighth of a milk, you come to a long, low wooden sbed, new and for its purposes well built, and from its further end runs @ short bridge down to a float on the edge of the lake. Here at many hours of the day you will find halfa dozen men about, and you will not have to look long until a large “fH” on @ Manuel shirt or something saying “Harvard University Boat Club” or an old envelope on the floor dirested to some one of the Harvard crew makes you quite certain that | the crimson flag, with white bars across It and the letters “H. B, C.’’ fluttering on the house back up the hill 1s that of the Harvard crew. That flag, by the way, has arecord which makes it every year more precious to every wearer of the red; for five years ago, on a staf on the right | Dank of the Thames, four miles above Lon- don, there was fun up at about each daybreak a flag of broad biue ground, with white bars across it, and having the three large letters “L. R. C.’’ stretching from the staf out wards, and above it, by the courtesy of its owners, ‘who were then acting a8 hosts, this same old red flag swung gracefally out to the breeze. Its own- ers this year have, dy their record and their prac- tice, made themselves much respected, and no | man who pretends to Know anything of the merits | of the various crews encamped about this lake, if attempting to forecast the result of the great | fight to-day, would for one moment, if asked to name the first four crews on the homestretch, or even the first three, think of omitting Har- vard. Allof her men but one are large and tal and shapely, and that one 1s large enough. They are brown and hearty, and noticeably free from the lean and bungry look #0 common among rac- & long course around it, Still, nothing daunted, | they kept on, and { believe that ever since | the general uncertainty as to the order of coming | fm that year they claim that they Were fourth. Whatever doubt there may be abont any of the | colleges entering next year’s race in case they are Deaten this and one Of the older ones like Harvard or Yale is the winner, tnat uncertainty will hardly | hold good of Cornell. Something about them guggests power, and the vigorous, setf-retying man who endowed their young vniversity #0 muniticentiy 1s well represented here by these same strong, self-dependent iellows. Ostrom stays from last year and goes from two to bow. He is a reputed good steersman, as skilful an oar as they have, stnewy and heavy, weighing nearly 160, an Ohio rattaman and inured to outdvor life. He 18 their captain, and if he has @ strong enough crew to allow a8 good a man as he to pull the Bow oar—in some ways the easiest one in the boat—he must have a poweriul lot. King, the only other of the oid hands, was a good one to go laat year, and even then praised by uuiter a8 one of the finest amateur oarsmen he “had ever seen. He isa uae. ie con and stay, and le of @ 000 weight, about 166 took bis turn asa faiteman on the Saranac, and the very mention of 4 suggests a life that could ey @na outdoor Dardly fail to make fim tough and useful. His tour mew men look to have no weak spota. All are ‘well grown, Clark and Henderson looking wiry and used to rowing, whtle the river selected by another (Vorwin) ior logging on was the Deia- ‘ware. With no flesn to spare and scaling at nearly 160, he must be made of good stuf. Finally they inavige im a giadt, Mr. Garver, like Abe Lincoln, @ sou Of Illinois, As tail as Le anu naturally weigu- Ing Over 200, be has by hard work trained down fo under 190—a different resait, by the way, from | Mat reached by one Grant, 4207 pound man, at Harvard. Thinking he would like to reduce a hitle he trained for a week, aud going to the scales to delight bimaeil at the resuit, was annoyed to ina— | | Inen of them are here now. ing crews in former years; year and this these men used their reason in the Inatter of diet, and you will find on their table good and liberai fare. How they came out last year has already been shown, and the four best Three of them bave ie graduated this monoth. and two of the three, jesers, Dana and Goodwin, will probably join the Columbia Law Schooi in the fall, where they will meet, 4 Columbia man told me, recently, some of Columbia's best men, aod may make up @ crew there—thougnh it is more likely that they will pull their, last race to-day, as college men usually do on graduation. This crew has had the usual risks to Tun which accompany training, and has not come om entirely unhurt. Stomachs have been more | or less unruly, bolls have staid away pretty weil, but the h, almost feverish, condition of Ube blood which so much hearty 100d and nard work beget makes some of the men chafe on much | less prevocatton than they would out of training. | The jargest, heaviest and naturally strongest man in the boat—the farmer, Tayior—has one most troublesome fanlt, and the way the crew naturally devote themeeives to letting him know it does not Tuake hit a bit more good natured. Nearly every stroke he pulls he, being @ starboard oar, reaches too far over to port at the beginning, swings across to starboard in the middie and back too far to port at the end. ordinary chair, and with bottoms as smooth and stippery a8 human skill can make them, this sort | Of performance does not do. A man ought to Tow straight forward snd ‘back, ao not across aud then sne keeps on | level keel; but row any other way, and you roll her go that all the other vars are annoyed hy tv. For it is excessively annoymg when all are rowin, smoothly siong to have her take a sudden lure! down to one side or the other, and on one side Nnd their oars so buried in the water that they can hardly get them out or avoid a crab, aud especially when they know it is not their sauit. is not at all unlikely that Mr. Tayior’s oar being a little too long inboard hag much to do with this; but it is pretty close to the race nuwW to have such a glaring defect if it can possibly be avoided, and wo the story goes—that he weighed 220, As a rule these very large men are nwieloy, | not having been enough used | to quickness of motion. By the way, relative to tnis man, a story has been going the rounds that Goodwin, of the Harvara, though a8 tail as this map, he is not nearly as powerful, yet has an up- /| per arm measuring Jn girth seventeen inches and | Bhait As tbat would be an inch more than the | rious arm of Tanah a ae aie oe ier | eupociaily jarge, 1 made inquiry, an und that | ‘these aparen were reached by letting the measure Mane down tye army ‘TO Wwe Middle Of the biceps Captain Goodwin is hardiy yet decided as to whether he had not better drop Taylor and pot in hia place Devens, one | (of the yet and the bow oar of last year’s crew. e latter is @ good man for his weight, but twenty pounds smalier than Taylor; al as Taylor will the strongest man for next year’s crew it seems desirable If possibie to retain him, and he will probably row this after- hoon, Another and very serious diMcalty which has loomed up stnce their arrival at has been the straining of their bost by the rough a delicate | ‘WOUer here, lot WX stalWars for both last | in these boats, narrow as an | It | racing boat, made of stuff of about the thickness of an ordinary cigur box, rapidly over the water miles every day, does not take very long to give her a twist somewhere, and the prudent way woul4 be to have at hand a gig or stronger boat for practice, 80 that the racing boat might be in her best order at the crisis, Notwith- standing these obstacles, however, her men are all hopeful, though all this talk about undying de- termmation to win which has been going the rounds of the and is credited to them has come from other lips, or rather pens, and makes withal rather enter as Wey le off in their hammocks between work. The Princeton Crew. Next in alphabetical order Come the men of New Jersey, and old as is Nassau Hall, yet making }n18 year their Grst appearance in these contests. They have at home one advantage which none of their rivals Know, indeed two; they haye water to row on that is never known to bé tough, and its sides are everywhere parallel and so near together that they must soon learn to row straight, so that we may 100k for some fine steering from them to-day. The water in question is that exhilarating sheet known as the Delaware and Raritan Canal, and no other college represented here to-day can boast anything like that, Williams, to be sure, comes the nearest, but the Hoosac has one little antic upknown probably to the gay canal—it dries up. In many ways have the news- Papers contributed to make these races what they are to-day, and no college nas felt this in a more practical way than Princeton, For, standing in need of a suitable boat house, Mr. Robert Bonner, of the Ledger, handed them, $2,000 towards erecting one, which made the rest easy. The cause of boasting st Harvard, for Mstance, and doubdtiess at any other of our colleges, never from any one man received so large a contribution. Princeton 1s reputed to have the nearest approach to a gymnastic pro- fessor which any college in this country has yet found; and many of her men had already a reputa- tion as skilful gymnasts, a fact which did not im sure good rowing stuf, but still bore that way. She has also @ very large number of under- graduates, both the Middle and Southern States being strongly represented. Her crew is one of the lightest of the nine, Williams and Wesleyan only weighing less. They have taken hold of their work with agood deal of snap, eighteen men being said to have commenced last fall to ty for places on the crew, and all winter long the rowing | Weights at the gymnasium were filled easily. The men have come tp here anything but heavy, in fact, almost too fine, and should be more careful in this respect, and doubtless will anotner year, One of tnem, Mr. Addicks, knew something of boat racing before, having, it is satd, a fair record as a sculler on the Schuylkill, The story goes, also, that alter one race was seen to. faint away, A while these Prticeton msi, would have been, fier Hgrvara or Yalé, regarded as a dine, ‘stron# crew; but daring the last few years; ind especially last year, there Was such @.oCag,ant cropping up of unusu- ally 8990, Men—and how thefe are more than ever—that thess new comers are really one of the meanees looking of ali, Théy—Williams, Trinity, Cornell and Dartmotth—have all along been named as likely to make up this afternoon the last five. If each One of them were as good a man in Sue sense of ‘the word as the father of one of them the intervals (Hall) is in er there would be a light- ning race be Hh them and tne winne before Nightfall for the first place a the fhish. If they will come up another year With more beef in their boat and especiall: with more evidence that they have eek faithfully and judiciously coached they may come home in the first group of three. The observer would quickly class them as city rather than country boys, as of the sort that Mili the outrigger of Harvard or Columbia rather than of sinewy Wesleyan or brawny Dartmouth, They are of the sort that, like @ certain kind of cat, ore ways better thao shey look. eee ther day @ man of their stanip or even m: , of pipestem arms and slab chest, and as modest as he 1s h, rowed as one of a pair and. beat a rival boat in which sat one of the very toughest, probably the very toughest, American college oarsman, certainly the bes; developed in the upper works that ever sat ina boat, His arms were over an inch, probably early two inches, larger than any here to-day. He had trained for iis race; his mate looked a good man, almost as good as the companion of the thin man, and yet the pipestem arms made it hot work for him all the way, and when they crossed the Ime the reieree decided that Ptpestem and bis boathad won, The blood and otner cie- ments which enabie @ man to thus do far more than his looks would eeem to justify are sald to fow freely in some of these Princeton veins, 80 to-mor- row’s news may be that one of tne to be first four Stopped out and Princeton took her place, But probably not. Tne Trinity Crew. The Trinity crew. The name reminds one of Cam»ridge, England, whose Trinity is a great row- ing college, the Third Trinity crew for instance, having a few years ago made wonderiully fast time on the Henley track. Connecticut 1s doing very Well this year, as last, sending three of the crews—Yale, Wesleyan and Trinity—to only two frem Massachusetts, one from New Hampshire, ore from New Jersey and two from New York, Rhode Island adding a Freshman crew. Trinity had a notion of being in these races long ago, having been one of the four colleges, Harvard, Yale snd Brown being the other three, which were represented by delegates in the convention of May 26, 1858. But the melancholy disaster of that year, the drowning of George E. Dunham tne stroke of the Yale boat, his boat having collided with another, ended the arrangements for any race that year. The same colleges were again represented on the 23d of February, 1859, this time at Providence, R. L, and decided to have the race on Lake Quin- sigamond, the first one, by the way, on that water. When the time came around it was found, I be- Meve, that Trinity could not make up @ crew, 80 Harvard, Yale and Brown had it all to themselves, She was not heard from again till 1872, when she entered the association; but their boat getting stove up while coming on the cars they had again, unfortanately, to withdraw. Nothing daunted, they made another try last year, and came up to Springfeld with a crew averaging light—about 145—several of whom had seen some Towing, and one or two considerable gymnastics. Among the eleven crews they were in the modest group whieh did not like to push themselves for ward too poldly at the finish. Neglect of training, too, had doubtless sometning to do witn this; but the charge will hardly hold good this year. The crew were gotten together as early as April last, and saw plenty of work in their barge—a sort of boat not unlike a racing shell in length, but broader and deeper and nearly twice as heavy— the Connecticut iying convenient for any work they wanted to take. Instead of one of ube lightest they are now one of the heaviest crews of the year, averaging twenty-two years of age, and have @ boat irom Elliott. Since reaching Saratoga they | have been staying at John Riley’s, far-up the west shore ot the lake and well out ofthe way of the | Public eye. Four of them are six feet hig, and the average height Of all six is six feet, one of them having an 8pare. They have had no Cook over them to show them how touse their abundant strength, and, im common with many of the crews here to-aay, that is just what they most need. Still the care bestowed on their rowing by the fow who do the best work offers them something of such value that they will scarcely fail to copy it, and, with such material as theirs to draw on, will by next year be well up in the front rank. One great aid to this desirable end is the substantial iit they are reported to have had trom their faculty—a thing which, better | than almost any other, illustrates the enormous | Stride taken fm college rowing since ten years ago, for the faculty whica would have done this then Would have been thought almost mad—the said aid being no less than the entire defraying of their training expenses. And yet is it not about time lor all the cotleges to ‘be following the good example set by Trinity and Columbia’ If one class of men above another in this country stands in need of vigorous physique it 18 that favored one which goes through our colleges, having the ad- vantages Of & systematic training of their mental wers Certainly, and nominally their moral too. jo Man need go out of his own circle or more than | Open his eyes to see abundant proof of this. | And the lack bas been the same ever since Jobn Harvara founded the first college in the land, Jonathan Edwards, for instance, having @ body that would not stand a quarter of a mile of we t of work daily done on this lake. Here and there are Beechers and Batiers and Bismarcks showing the enormous amount of mental labor he can do who | with good mind induiges also in a sano Nothing that has yet been devised nas done a8 | much for the physica: weil being of our students a8 , these same annual athletic meetings, if then the faculties would send out the best men—men round | and full, strong, morally, meutally and physically— let them, until @ better plan is hit upon, follow in the footsteps wisely taken by Trinity and Colum- bia, and Wesleyan will not be far benind, for she seems to have spirit enough tor three or four col- leges, and, think of it, ber President bas actually been down here at the crews’ quarters to take @ look at his boys! He must | be @ good fellow and the sort of man | to know. He certainly has struck the right Hite tay mente ie of & feliow's fee! jer much of the power of the fai 1d i Rugby, and now also of Dr. Francis, Geran o : Gard) of the old 1635 Latin School hg jane men do like manliness, and, for tuat matter, who does not? id when some of our enervated, FRO AAS lajo for these rowers | NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1874—R fore they are forty, will get so that they can walk in an hour nearer tive miles than four, or pull an oar with the skill and stay President Eliot, of Har. vard, used to, and doubtless, with three weeks’ training, would to-day ; can beat, say some of their own students at what they love do and es- teem themselves at, they will begin good to find those students liking themin a way they have never dreamed of nor really deserved. There is Do need of racing power. But there is need of manly vigor fit to battle with the annoyances and obstacles each day—a miniature life time—has 1p store to try us and prove us with, and the faculty which does what in it ltes to disseminate that vigor, keeping it, of course, within bonds ana secondary to the end it is » peans to, 18 going to doa good, tar-reaching and hot like most of she studies here ana there liberally endowéd com! home to but @ few, but universal. 80 ‘Amen 1 the rompt and wise action of ‘Brinity and Columbia! lay men of both do credit to-day to the solid friends who have thus stood up behind them just Where they appreciated \: most gratefully, The Wesley: Crew. What name nas come to the front switter, more surely and more deseryediy than that of these same Wesleyans? A handful of men, who hardly— many of them—know the meaning of a spare dol- lar, or even fifty cents, they have come up here certainly no richer than Amhe: and with not four or five or their old team for a nucleus, but only one, and have already made themselves a name in advance that no man will say ig not de- served, Let some one who has been 0 busy all his life making money that he has had no time to do any good with it, and now finds the end of his days confronting him, put a good sized Wesleyan codicil im the document which begins ‘‘Imprimis.” lam nota Wesleyan but come from one of the oldest, and wealthiest and most renowned universities in the land, but I have seen how the Wesleyans have behaved for two years, and I like them; indeed, am forced to, for self-reliance and self-reapect soon command respect. Few men who have studied what has been going om hereabouts during the last week will place them later than third to-night, and more will put them first, and yet no English stroke can be laid at their door, and they are one of the lightest of the crews. With a bricklayer for bow and wheelwright for stroke and some farmers scattered in between, they remind one of a certain railsplitter whose only gas jet fizzed out nightly from the old back log, or the quiet man who thought he could handle a refractory Illinois regtment in the first days of the war. I saw two of them on Monday, when the lake was white with foam and shell rowing out of the question, walking smartly along the road, in flannel shirt and trousers, sleeves rolled up, no hats and brown, tough-looking forearms project- ing from the sleeves, which would, from their sinewy look and goodly size, catch any one’s eye at once, hres going Wad the foot a, 6, Save one, gud Irthe prive Wad fOr thé best paper gn the erect and the macrocosm they would doubtless all have @ hack at it, They have in no way hid themselves while here, but did their work where all the world might see, and take their time, too, if it wanted to. They are not ashamed of their ee and need not Db and I ques- tion if it would not be wise ‘all crews to row on time openly and publicly, ahd even announce at what hour they would A racher than follow this plan which now obtains of doing light work in the middle of 8 COaree orstarting or finishing short, or effecting some Other of the hundred and one rases te deceive the vigilant tout. Has any one of the crews booked tor a low down place to-day really misled anybody? Their tactics are understood, nd though they may cause the watchful rival a little more trouble in getting their time, he will tit all'the same. What, for instance, is to hin- ler @ being off the mile stake in the woods on either shore and off the two mile, and, having first compared watcnes, noting every crew that assed and the second at which it passes? A Rite addition, suotraction and multiplication soon tell the ty ae All bat itis, the stroke, will stay for another year, and some for more. We have seen strong crews, with similar grounds for hope, stay and de- moralize ; but there is not much danger of fellows of the'stamp of these daing the like. If the plan which has been agitated somewhat of an all- college six or jour or eight to have a friendly three or four mile brash with a Cambridge or Oxford crew is put vigorously through, ttrere will be found, doubtless, at least one or two good Methodists in the American party. A little coaching would not hurt them, to e sure, though somehow they have managed now and then to do without tt; and we should be glad to see them brought forward as sampies of one of Connecticut’s vest products, the timber nutmegs even being old and feeble in comparison. The Williams Crew. All will remember that of the eleven crews which crossed the famous finish line last year, below Springfield, there was doubt about the position of several, There was no such doubt as to Wiiltams, Her position was clear and unmistakable. she was last, Many a crew so placed would have crept a@way and not crossed the line at all. But thatis not the way they do things in Williams- town, There is no back dewn there. Such @ defeat. would have ¢ scared many @ crew out of any future races. But Wil- liams has not scared. She is nere to-day to do as well as she can, and better than their best is not claimed even for the angels. She has at the head oi her company @ strong, good man. Her men last year were the heavier, but those of thia year are the better developed. The crew has changed completely, save one man, and he the best there, and he Gunster, One of the requi- sites for good rowing is water. Part of last year the men indulged in a few spoonfuls, and called it the Hoosac, Then tor quite a while they did without. It had evapo- Tated. Pretty hard work to get up a crew on such 8 track as that, But Gunster fought on. He has the face of aman who does not let go easily and his record bears him out. He has not, like Columbia on the Harlem, for instance, a chance to see others row and take notes and encouragement, Probably among ail tne Berkshire bills there ts not another six-oared shell boat than that of his col- lege. That his men have been at some hard mus- cular work their weil knit and showy muscles tes- tify. Barker, for instance, looks decidedly strong, and Gunster in muscular development has hardly a superior on the laxe, But a man may be ver; muscular and not pull a strong oar, for n strength may ite in muscii which are not much used in rowing. <A crew of stonecatters or machinists might be exceedingly Strong, but, unless young men, would need long coaching before they would be dangerous. There is & look Ol strength scattered here and there through the Williams crew, though neither bow nor No, 3 1s more than moderate. Can they beat Princeton? may, perhaps, be the pertinent ques- tion to-day, for the race between the two will be exciting, even if not so much 80 as that among the leaders. Part of vhe interest this great race engenders is in the number of little races it contains and the sharp, well defined feeling of partisanship among the spectators. These are the elements of the genuine enthusissm one is sure to find on the grand stand, and all men enjey real enthusiasm. But Gunster graduates this year, and without him his College will have @ harder struggle to be on hand mext year, unless they do unexpectediy weil to-day, than they had this. Indeed I have heard it predicted that she will be the first to drop out of | the association. Hardly another seems so doubt- jul. Wesleyan is not so rich im money, but she has the great boon, the men. With men of the right stamp you can do almost anything human. Princeton Is not strong, but it is her frst year, and much was not expected of her. Her cash, too, abounds. Columbia is fast, this year, and’ not at all poor. Dartmouth is strong and confident and does not stand on trifles; Cornell never was weak; Trinity, #6 We have said, has come up fast, at least in strengh, while her Faculty with the cash have made her foundation sure. Harvard and Yale— Yale swore off one year, but will, probably, n r doit j—at least aslong as Mr, Cook stays in Col- lege. The probability is that if any gap is made it ‘Will be swiftiy filled, and that the number will tn- crease rather than diminish, and it is equally likely thiat before this week is out we shall know whether Williams will remain. Cambridge, England, has far more reason to feel bad, but she never said, Die, She does not seem to know how, or care to learn, Neither should Williams. The Yale Crew. No maiden entry this year or last for Yale; her mame is short enough, but her record reaches back toa time before four of her to-day’s crew were born. Much of itis not over pleasant read- ing for her friends, not that it telis of anything to feel ashamed of, but simply because in all her con- tests her proportion of victories is small. There is nothing new in that. Four years she went with- out @ victory; but so did Cambridge, commencing in '36, Then she won twice, Then five times she lost incessantly; but Cambridge did nine, com- mencing in si. Last year she got the prize, and it may be that now she again, following the lead of Cambridge this time in 69, has started of on & long term of victory. There is something refreshing to all Americans to read that, thus through all her dark years, she never turned her back to the enemy, and it would be equally painful to hear that she ever thought of doing so. It has been much harder for her %0 row than.for Harvard because Of tappe Mpa Guy) yoara, gag MALbo hes ryal EGATTA EDITION. would not stand the test so well, One thing is sure, that these two universities are @ither not going to keep the victories in these races here- alter all to themselves, or else they will at least Dave to work mightily for them, and itis quite possible that the aquatic mame of either may be brighter now than it ever will again. Both are very strong this year; yet suppose Columbia or Wesleyan or Cornell or Dartmouth should each beat both now, would it not begin to look a8 if their day was pastry If this English stroke is the only correct one (Oyow—and itis certainly gaining favor—it will not pe long till ali the colleges have it by heart, Larg¢a@pd powerful men are plenty out- side of Cambri Mag New Haven as well ag in the several othe! baat ai snow. So, bundant wor! out ahead. Year quite strong, as bas etains but two oi Der 1 whom she would sooll- d the best four. if ie English stroke, win; but that is bee! year's crew, le Harv: est beat, has four of hers, there is marked superiority i as rowed by Yale, she is likely t not yet quite proven. She has oge advantage— her captain is old, much oider 1 any of lis crew or of Harvard’s. Four yearé more of devei- Opment of willand judgment ought to tell, and they do tell in this tho best, thongh not the itor jt stroke oarsman Yale ever men 100k well ail shrongh— 0 Bn y of them not eo a at te gett Row than formerly, more are eager to row and take the ats to become fit, Indecd, it Bay Bb akines taa!sey, en" anttasP Ow. c) pounds in Yelgns after trait are | sized men. aia are abeut ag light Possible to make them coihpatible wii strength to stand any wear at aX. Perino eat Be arte much time and thonght ana care a she ever will Should Harvard beat bi this time it will not be from rowing the same sort of stroke and ro’ it better, but mainly because a if @ dozen pounds a man larger then two crews get so that tiey Tow equally well and have similar boats, as weil @8 equal experience, a few pounds—in England a ee le pound—is believed to tell. In single scuils it does not seem to make so much difference, one of our very feat amateur single scullers, for in- Stance, weighing, if the report be correct, but 112 Pounds. But in pulling ag in @ boat of four, or six or eight eh have seidom welgued below 140. m the number of men Yale keep over till another year I think she will prove very fast in 1875; and if these races continue at Saratoga there will be one comfort—one cau at least compare the time of orews of different years whee made over the same track. So much de- pel wat the condition of the water may be this a(ternoon oF to-morrow, or whenever ele the Face Inay, on account of the rough weather —for 1 do not think they will stop ior rain— poned to. But seldom have matters jooked betcer for Yale op the eve of a great race, os wen oo s THE COLLEGE GREWS. Corrected Statistics for References As the regatta is sonear at hand we publish carefully corrected lists of the crews, with certain statistics, which will be found generally conven ient:— DARTMOUTH, Stroke—Oharies U. Gates, Kennebunkport, Me.; age, 22; height, 6 ft. 13¢ in.; weight, 172 Ibs. 2—Frank W. Mitchell, Manchester, N. H.; age, 22; height, 6 ft.; weignt, 170 lbs. 8—Charles W. Eager, Manchester, N. H.; age, 19; height, 6 ft. 1 in.: weight, 162 lbs, 4-Benjamin F. Robinson, Manchester, N. H.; age, 21; height, 6 ft.; weight, 140 ibs. ‘o—-William F. Westgate, Haverhill, N. H.; age, 22; height, 6 ft. 11 in.; Weight, 162 Iba. Bow—Wilis G. Eaton, Jr., Lowell; age, 21; height, 6 ft. 11% in.; weight, 150 lbs. ‘Averages—Of weight, 169% lbs.; of height, 6 ft.; of age, 21, The boat Is Elliott’s make, of ceaar, 48 ft. long and 19% in. wide. The crew will be bare-backed on Thursday, and dressed in green handkerchieis (or turbans) and green tights. HARVARD Stroke—R. H. Dana, Boston ; age, 23; height, 5 ft. 10 in. ; weight, 158 ibs. 2—B, 0, Bacon, Jamaica Plain; age, 20; height, 6 it.; welght, 168 Ibs. 3—W. Goodwin (captain), Jamatca Plain; age, 21; height, 6 ft.; weight, 170 Ibs. 4—H, L. Morse, Boston; age, 21; height, 6 ft. 34 in. 5 motes 168 Ibs. 5—W. R. Taylor, Jefferson; age, 21; height, 6 ft. ¥ in.; weignt, 176 lbs, 'Bow—W. P. Otis, Chicago; age, 21; height, 5 ft. 9tn.; weight, 156 lbs, ave s—OL ) ata 165 Ibs.; of height, 5 ft. ng in. ; of agé, 21, ‘ne beat is a Blaikie, 60 feet long and 21 inches Wide. Its weight 18 about 140 lbs. White tights and crimson (magenta) handkerchieis will be worn next week in the regatta, 10) WESLEYAN, Stroke—J° E, Eustis, Hammona, N, Y.; age, 26; height, 6 ft. 11 1n.; weight, 160 lps. 2—C. P, Marsh, West Newton, Pa.; age, 22; height, 5 ft, 83 m.; weight, 147 lbs. C. Hermans, Corning, N. Y. ; age, 22; height, 3—H. 6 it.; reiget 163 loa, . M. Warren, Deer Island, Me.; age, 24; height, 5 ft. 61n.; weight, 144 lbs. 6—J. William Whitney, Sprague’s Corners, N. Y.; age, 24; beight, 5 it. 10 in. ; weight, 140 lbs. Bow—W. vowns, South Berwick, Me.; age, 21; height, 6 1t.910.; weight, 146 Ibs, verages—Of weight, 150 Ibs.; of height, 5 ft. 9 in.; of age, 23, Boat built by Elliott; length, 49 feet; width, 1934 inches; wetght, 159 pounds, The men will row in lavender drawers and hanakerchiects. WILLIAMS, Stroke—John Gunster ab Scranton, Pa.; age, 23; height, 5 ft. 111n.; weight, 159 Ibs. 2—M. P. Washburn, East Boston; age, 19; height, 5 ft. 8% in.; weight, 144 ibs. 8—J. H. Haynes, Rowe, Mass.; age, 25; height, 5 ft. 104¢ in.; Weight, 146 Ibs. 4—C. Gilbert, Milton; age, 10; height, 6 ft. 10% es Tee arker, Burlington, Vb, a5 h . Barker, Burlington, Vt, age, 21; heigh: 6 ft. 736 1. ; Weignt, 14) los. ae Bow—Benyamin Norton, Plattsburg, N. ¥.; age, 18; height, 5 tt. 9 in.; weight, 140 Ibs. ‘Averages—Of weight, 148 1b3,; of height, 5 ft. 9 in. ; of age, 21. Boat built by Blaikie; length, 60 (t.; width 21 in.; weight, 1301bs. The crew will appear in white tights and handxercbie!s of royai purple. YALE, Stroke—R. J. Cook (captain), Lafayette, Pa.; age, 25; height, 6 it. 8 in.; weight, 155 lbs. 4—J. Kennedy, Struthers, Ohio; age, 22; height, weight, 164 lbs, ‘William C. Hall, Budaio, N. ¥.; age, 20; height, 5 tt, 10 1n.; weight, 151 Ibs, 4—D. Ki 7g, Spuyten Duyvil; age, 20; height, 6 1t.; weigh: 82 Ibs. 5—Kred. Wood, Norwalk, Conn.; age, 20; height, 5 ft, 11 in. ; weight, 155 Ibs, Bow—Gec ie b:; , East Hadden, Conn.; 6 it; pie orge L. Bronnell, age, 20; height, 5 ft. 8 in.: weight, 151 Ibs, Avereges—Of weight, 154% ibs; Of height, 6 ft. 10 in, ; of age, 21, YALE FRESHMAN. Stroke—E. C. Cook (captain), Worcester, Mass, ; age 22; height. 6 ft. 10 in.; weight, 166 Ibs. 2- W. W. Collin, Pen Yan, N. Y.; age, 18; height, 6 ft 10 in.; weight, 176 lbs, 3—L, H. Bradley, Hastings, N. Y.; age, 20; height, 6it.; weight, 164 Ibs. 4—M. G. Nixon, Chicago, Ill, ; age 19: height, 6 ft. 11% In. 5 te 159 Ibs. 6—F. W. Wheaton, —; age, 19; height,5 ft. 8% in.; Weight, 145 Ibs, Bow—C. 8. Mervine, Wilton, Pa.; age, 23; height, 5 ft, 8 in. ; weight, 153 Ips, averages <0t Weight, 16034 Ibs.; of height, 5 ft. 10 in. ; of age, 20, The’ Yale University crew’s six oar was built py Blaikie; length, 60 it.; width, 21in. The Fresh- men use an Ellrot boat; length, 4034 it.; width, 21in, The crews will wear biue tights and hand- kerchief, and kuit gauze shirts, white, BROWN FRESHMEN. Stroke—W. A. Peck, Barrington, R. 1.3 age, 20; height, ft B in.; weight, 151 lbs. ue 2—0, e, Newport; 20; height, 5 tt 11 in. ; weight, 145 1bs. bacdidbias gi cays 3—W. R, Stiness (captain), Providence; age, 20; height, it, 5 6 ft; wi 54 Ibs, Wy, Mass. ; age, 22; height, . We z Git.; we t, 168 $—S. J, Bradbury, Providence; age, 20; height, 5 ft. 1054 in.5 weight, 142 lbs. ‘Bow—A. G. Gri Litchfield; age 20; height, 6 ft. 9% in. ; Weight, 140 Ibs, x Averages—Of Weight, 150 Ibs; of height, 5 ft.9 | In. 5 of age, 20, joat built by Blaikie; length, 49% ft.; width, Zl in. The men do not use the slidin ats, un- like all the other crews. The crew will appear im white and brown suits, with brown handerchiels for the head, Stroke—B. F. Reis, New J 20; . F, » New Yor! H H helene, § fb. 83 tn.; weight, 158 eer 2—R. ©. Cornell, New York; age, 21; height, 6 ft 9 in.; weight, 171 Iba. 8—kd, 8, Rapallo, New Yorx; age, 21; height, 6 ft. ; weet driswold, New York neigh |. Griswold, New York; 18; het 6 ft; weet Goodwin, New ¥ esti ao .T, win, New York; age, 24; height, 5 ft. 11 in, } Weight, 167 Ibs. chaos ad Bow—P. Timpson, New York; age, 22; height, 6 ft. 114% Inches; weight, 158 lhs. Averages—Ol weignt, 159 1bs.; of height, 6 ft. 10% in.; of age, 21, Columbia's boat ts newly built, by Fearon; 4914 ft. long, 2lin, wide: weighs 140 1b3, The racing Gens consists oJ blue tights and white hanaker- chieis. 0 NE Stroke—C. U. Ring, one, j 5 ft. 1049 in.; weight, 159, Y.; age, 22; height, 2 |. H. Southard, Toledo; i $ he ~ we ae 5 age, 23; height, 6 ft. 0 arver, Pecatonin, Ill; age, 25; height, oft. Lins; meignt. 174, pet ae bib Clark, Forres ‘ 5 heigh! és ta oe Hy restviliey N. Y.; age, 28; height, S&—L. F. Henderson, Ithaca; age, 22; height, 5 ft. 10% In. 5 SL mae pecan, 8 }. A, Us it Rando! . LARGE 6 Sy 10 Ades Welehite ie” post- | (Ave weight, 169; of height, 61% 11 inf: of age, Boat built Blaikie; 1ength, 60 f%.; width, 23 in. Carnelian dkerchiels ci drawers. PRINCETON, Stroke—F, A. Marquand, New York; age, 183. height, 6 ft. 113 in. ; werght, 159. 2—W, H. Addickii, Philadelphia; age, 20; height, 5 ft. 936 in.; weight, 153. 3—G. M. Taylor, Philadelphia; age, 28; height, 6 It, 103g in. ; Weight, 160, +H, fall, New York; age, 18; height, 6 ft. 1036 altimore; age, 20; height, 5 ft 934 in.; weight, 160, howe Smith, Paterson, N. J.; age, 205 height, 6 ft 83 in.; weight, 140. 1 Average—Ol weight, 162 23; of height, 5 ft. 10 in. ; Of age, 19, Boat qty by Fearon; length, 493¢ ft.; Ldnlew | 19% in. Thecrew will appear in light colored, pin trimmed witn black, and orange handker~ chiels, in.; weight 5—C, PRINCEPON PRESHMEN, Stroke—Benjamin Nicholl (captain), New York} age, 18; height, 5{t. 10% in.; weight, 146 Iba, 2—J. 8. Fly. Godar Rapids, lowa; age, 20; height, 5 It. 10% in. ; weight 146 Ibs. 5——J Williamson, Ozoorn, Ohio; age, 21: height, be Cp We ant ee 19; height —J. A. Campbell, Washington; age, 19; he! 64, 934 Ib. Weight, 143 Ibs. if ook latent Surina 1 at 2: betes Souto 6." reen, Cedar Rapids, Iowa; age, 18; height, 5 ft. 7in.; wei, ht, 142 Ibe. Ave i weight, .48; of height, 6 ft. 10im.: BEC, Their appearance in the the University crow. ~ "yRINTrY, > Stroke.—H. ©, Dubois, Rairbautt, Minn. ; age, 10: height, 6 ft.; weight, 162 Ibs. 2—J. F. ennan (captain), Washington, Passage, Sly Bet ee wel nt, 115 Ibe, hi ‘William J. trolt; age, eight 6 it. 1in.; weight, 175 lba, arendon O, Bulkiey, Lebanon, N. H.; weight, &—S, D. Hooker, Watertown, M. J.3 age, 203 height, 6 ft. sin.; weight, 156 Ibs. Bow.—G. M vuBow, Fairbault, Minn.; age, 235 height, 5 it, 111n.; weight, 158 Iba. Averages—Of weignt, 166 lbs.; of hetght, 6 ft; of age, Boat built by Eliott; length, 40% ft.; widtD, 194 inches. The crew will be arrayed next Thurs day in white drawers, gai rt and alternate green and white handkerchie TEACHING YOUNG HANDS To ROW. The following extract from the book entitled, “Principles of Rowing at Harvard,” compiled from the rules used at Oxford, wili be of value here:— g.inhst atart irom the pfinclple él su lditanve art; thas @ tan is mas genius at the oar, and that you mui your ponll-what he is to do, and how. You must give nim something to study, and you must oversee hie whole position and all his motions. You can do Le on \y in a boat roomy, comfortable anu steady; there(org— First, put him into a patr-oar boat, a ole with sd sides, but with proper arrangement of seat, tretcher and outrigger. Sit down on the after thwart and make him see how and where your feet. are placed, the heels resting together and the toes turned out; then cause him to imitate you in that particular, Next, put the oars into his hands, placing them about three and a half inches apart, the outside hand ciose to the end, but not capping ft. lf it is a square loomed oar al fingers of the outside bapd are held over and the thumb of the inside Mand alone underneath; bus if it be a round Joomed oars let kota thumbs come underneath. Make him then get forward, direct- | ing all his limbs with your hands; see that ne | straightens bis back, equares bis shoulders, holds up his head, extends his arms fully to their reach, Keeps the outside wrist fat with the arm, the in- side brought over the handle and bent coarse le ‘Then, sitting dowo im your place, go through the motions described in taking @ stroke, and let him see what you are doing. Repeat the several parts of the operation, giving to each a name; then make him follow those motions in the air, Tace will be the same as, that he may fix his his shoulders, hands, knees and _ eélbo ought to be at the commencement 1 angle of e: jegrees and pu. small rea, the rider being put against “hime Again with yOur hands regulate bis posture and let him try @ second stroke, applying litte pres- sure. Instruct him to have chest well 6 forward toward the loom, that he may strike the water with a full tension, and feel resistance at once. Make him look at his blade now, and let him endeavor to fofce it into travelling with the edges vertical; ana when he has aucceeded take our own oar ne bal a mild eons io and, watching rformance, urgi memory the navoral paxts of his lesson. Rether: 1pg 18 an eee to be subsequently ac- quired. Let him be first led on by paternal tuitson to get a stroke through and to right him- self square and upright after it is finished, for the great thing here to be aimed at is to get nim from the Arst to learn form. Application of strength te Of no consequerce, Let him only attain to pi an oar horizontally through his reach, up and without contortion, and all else will duly {ole Next teach bim to keep in stroke with you thus be transformed into an tainty and without distress to himseit Bat it will be said, ‘The tune and trouble com sumed in this operation are endless, and the atten- tion required for it far too laborieus; besides, where is the men to be found who thus teaches Scientifically the elements of the craft?’ To this , “You might teach four lessons of many Freshmen in an hour, And considering that you would of take down your whole crew of green hands ina six-oar every day at @ great expenditure of time and voice, you will find that at tne end of the week on have spent no more hours tr ee: spent them ve 0’ | you will “have advanced oward the formation of a boat’s crew than by any Method of doing it ina lump. You have been ing a8 an instructor instead of a bully; teaching by gentle, inteliigible words, and more by visible actions, the things to be done, instead of shouting ont a vocabulary of technical terms “not understood by the people,” and repeating them endlessly, because it was not possible they should Gut toNo?, "Quicker forward, longarim the Waser, out to No 2, “Quicker lorw: don’t roll out 01 the boat” He bas not yet been. taught the motions necessary for getting forward: at all; he canuot keep his oar @ eC. ond buried, nis untatored wrists and shoulders are out Places. He knows ‘® purehese from his feet and throwin, buckward from the commencement of the stroke, and, accordingly, he makes a irantic effort to doa bit of work by some kind of clumsy wrench, all screwed and doubled up. To the difficulty of providing instructors in the: pair-oars, one word will serve for an answer, Do you really intend to teach, in the proper sense ‘When you stand up in the six-oars’ stern? If you do, then everything taught there can be taught far more expeditiously, thoroughly and efficiently in the little gig. But ir you are not able to impart the elements rowing drawn irom: your own Racmieces, and are content to use Merely a cycle of indiscriminate, general appeala without introduction, or illustration, or point applicable to particular cases, then you are an im- poster. I should deal in the same way, mutatis mutandte, with @ more advanced oarsman who requires cor- rection in style. The young oarsman who hag. learned to row before coming to college is likely to be as full of faults as the ill-taught “torpid” man, but faults ofa different character, and which are more likely to pass concealed, because glossed over by a certain facility of style, and not palpabie irom positive clamsiness. Now you may do much With such & Man in @ Six-oar, Dut yet you cannot Watch him or talk to him as youcaninapair. I should therefore put him also in a gig, first Fp pated arranged, along with a steady old hand, and make them row a long even stroke. I should sit opposite him and coatemplate him all over, observing especially the posltion of his hi feet, wrists and elbows. I should make him sure whether he felt an equal pressure upon the heel of each foot at the first part of the stroke. I should make him try to be conscious that his shoulders are not contracted in the forward reach and that they are dropped again quite square, and his chest expanded at the feathering; also, that his blade’s lower tip throws the wacer ait in- stead of silivering it; that his knucklee always touch his ribs; that he is not Screwed on either side when forward; that the resistance is perfect and entire the first moment of the blade’s contact with Water; and that from the same moment the water, gathered up by the blade, be driven and buried right away in @ mass, so that tie bole, made at first, be carried away astern of the boat. I should take particular care that he sits weil his work; tor Seite too low and at too great distance from his thole are the two points in @ man’s position which unfailingly rain iis rowing, Also that his elbows are not turned outward, and. that his le arm is as trae and rigid irom the shoulder as the oth in, see that his recovery Jorward 18 instantaneous; and I would explain: and exemplify the elastiospring necessury to that end most pointedly. Finally, | shouid pat bim on the back, and tell him what the one or two prominent points of his failings are, @nd desire him to remember them carefully on the next occagion of rowing in the six. ‘Then a Word will suffice from you, as it will recallan item of his work already graiied Spon his mind, as “No. 4, elbows,” “wrists,” * tioud.” But throughout the lesson I should insist on bis doing to the traction of a letter what ts y quired of him, if itis in bis power, and remiud him on bald occasion Oo! his relapsing into 4 loriulness ol I shall leave rowing men to decide whether this be the rational method of teaching and the more adequate to its purpose; or the bucketingin a six- oar. amid shouts and abuse, without the possi- bility of stopping or repeating the points incul- cated after a fresh start, or anything like quiet re- flection on the part of the rowing pupils. And, again, I would press the conviction that hard, ex- hawsting work does not and cannot make oar mon; for 98 800n ae they are distressed they cease wo learn, We must first attain jorm and # Y5 oe | ee bot not before, onter apon Fr