The New York Herald Newspaper, July 15, 1875, Page 3

Map Showing the Entire Course of Three Miles, the Lanes as Buoyed Off on the.Ice Last Winter and the Fc3ition of the in the Lanes During the Contest, as Taken from the Herald Tower by Instantaneous Photographs. WHITE BROWN LAVENDER eesanron= GREEN 10 BLUE i" ROSE 12 CRIMSON (3 GARNET ORANGE & BLACK SAN en a nanan nna RN ANN ANAND RON i hi nn das. Riley BOWDOIN ROYAL PURPLE’ CARNELIAN & WHITE PURPLE & WHITE BLUE & WHITE TARY, .UNSON, egrs. —W.Ramsdill 4 WESLEYAN SARATOGA NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1875.—TRIPLE SHEET. “ THE UNIVERSITY REGATTA. LAKE THREE MILH COLLEGH REGATLA COURSE BUOVED THROUGH THE ICE BY MESSRS. EUSTIS & SOUTHGATE i 875. THE Showing. the LAST: HALF 1. WILLIAMS, 2..CORNELL, 8, AMHERST, BOWDOL 5.,. BROWN, & PRINCETON. 9. DARTMOUTH. CORNELL—At Finish. COLUMBIA—Two Lengths from Finish. EHARVARD—Two Lengths Behind Columbia. DARTMOUTH--Two Lengths Behind Harvard. CORNELL'S VICTORY New York State a Second Time Victorious, ITHACA’S BOYS WIN. Harvard Beaten After a Splendid Struggle. TIME, 16M. 531-48. Wolumbia Second and Close On the Winner. ACCIDENT TO PRINCETON. William Blaikie’s Graphic Report of the Race. HERALD INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS. ——+ A Bird’seye View from Herald Tower, the SARATOGA, July 14, 1875, For the second time Saratoga has been the scene pi the genera Cohioxe Tomah All the! Meanume, world and his son-in-law were to be found on the’ immense grand stand at Carroll's Point to-day. So many crews have probably never raced from the colleges of any country, HOW THEY GOT TO SARATOGA. ‘Twenty-three years ago, desiring to imitate our English cousins, who had not only been rowing for years on the Cam, the Isis and the Thames, but had produced some very alluring iiter- atare on their sports, Harvard and Yale hed an informal contest at the foot of the White Mountains, on Lake Winnipiseogee. There were avout 1,000 spectators there. Har- vard bad then been boating about eignt ye: aud, singular to say, the beat with which ther: was won was sold to Columbia College, New York, five years afterward, prognosticating that the sceptre was to passfrom Judah. At first the col- lege lads used eigit-oared shells, A six-oarea shell wae employed in 1857, The next year Yale, Harvard, Trinity and Brown @ convention at id resolved Upon an annual regatta, gular race was hoid at Worcester July 26, 1859, Among three crews Harvard was the Winner, and won henceforward seven raves out of nine, Yaie taking two in the last years of the war, The contest finally became a mere Matter of rivairy between Harvard and Yale, no other college competing for seven years, until, in 1871, the place of rowing was changed from the jake at Worcester, Whereon the crews had been obilgead to turm & buoy, to the Connecticut River at Springfield, and ‘aightaway course of three miles, Then ti 01 competed, and Am- herst Agricultural Colle; | DOth Harvard and Brown, Yale did not enter. The same year was sigaalized by the appearance tn the British prov- Inces of some of the best professional crews in Engiand, [t occurred to Jehn Morrissey to invite the Britons te come to Lake Sar: ‘a and meet the loading American professionals for a purse of $5,000, ‘That was the first notification to the pub- io at large that Saratoga possessed a lake ft for rowing. TH NTILE COLLEGES COMPETE. mbppideneg by AmborayA victory. MILE osition ‘of the University Boats w eens Carrol! College Boats French’ cH Ramsdiil Se ewan! Meyers — moire.) WESLEYAN--Two Lengths Behind Dartmouth. YALE--Atreast of Wesleyan. AMHERST--Thres and a Half Lengths Behind Yale. HAMILTON--Abreast cf Amherst. - : many other colleges entered the lists at Spring- flelad in 1872-73 On the first occasion Amherst carried away the colors from Yale, Harvard, Wiliams, Bowdoin and the Amnerst Agricultural colleges, making the best timo yet known in America for college crews. In 1873 Yale took the flags from eleven colleges in all, The regatta bad now become such an important meeting that the public-spirited men of Saratoga, headed by J. P. Conkling, determined to make tt accessory to the growth and popularity of their suminer season. The New kngland schoojs raised the cry that the gambling and horse racing at Saratoga would de- moralize the students. Poor boys! They had an- nually broken most of the panes of giass in the Bay State House at Worcester and kept that town awake all night, parading and hajlooing and aety- ing the constabulary, and it would have been a pity to subject them to the temptations of the best regulated watering place in America. However, such liberal provision was made by the citizens that the unworldly New Englanders were tempted out of their province. The wisdom of the change was at once “apparent in the appearance of many new crews, ‘The umbitious young college of Corneil sent a deiogation (rom Cayuga Lake, Old Princeton and the metropoll- tam college of Columbia took part in che contest, Columbia bore away the colors in the very exvel- lent time of 16:425;, The Freshman colors were carried of from Yale and Brown by oid Princeton in 18:12, Both championships were transferred from New England to the Middle States, This emboldeied Union and Hamilton colleges to come forward in 1475, and there being five Middle States colleges represented in the convention, and the people of Saratowa making still more liberal concessions to the crews, the regatta was again fixed at Lake Saratoga, despite from the Eastern men, who to row at New London, The only real onjec- on which could be advanced to Saratoga was equally patenf against the Thames River—rough water, it had to be ad- mitted that better erder hi prevailed om Lake Saravoca pyd im phe village of the Springs than the regatta aadiences were ac- customed to, Although there bad been rough water for two days, arising from high winds biow- Ing over a broad sheet of spring water ata high alutude, which led to two vexatious postpone- ments, still the spot w: ntral, the hospitality unbounded, the audie: immense, and at variety of new features other than rowing had been added to the entertainment, Tae presenta- tion of the Bennett Cups had given pedestrian amusements such a start that in 1875 as many as 110 competitors have entered for the College ath- jetic sports, . Add to these 104 students pulling oars in the various aquatic races and we lave a grand total of 214 undergraduates contending im three days for victory on land and lake. ‘The interest in the annual regatta has become national. Presidents of colleges, like Dr. McCosh and Andrew White ana Governor Chamberiaine, have attested their approval o! these sports by word and presence, While POOLS have been sold in these races in New York and elsewhere in the country, the,great Club House at Saratoga has closed its pool room, the proprietor keeping bis voluntary faith with the Regatta Committee to the letter, Otner parties from a distance Neve not veen so scrupulous, aud itis highly improvable hereafter, ne matver Where the regatta is held, that the native inclina- tion of mankind to wager on tueir favorites can be suppressed, particularly aa the undergraduates themseives set the example vy vetting in public and lu private, THE LANDSCAPE OF THE RACH, You are aiready weil informed of the nat and extent of the accommodations provid the college men at Saratoga village and lake. We call it @ Village, though it has 10,000 normal population, The jake is distant from the Congress Spring scant of four miles, The main road to the springs Is an almost perfectly straight Boulevard drive, wido enough for six omnibuses to pass each ocber at ite Aarroweat parh Along the sid¢g BROWN--One Length Behind Hamilton. “WILLIAMS—Abreast of Brown. BOW DOIN--Two Lengths Behind Williams, UNION--Two Lengths Behind Bowdcin., of the road, protected from 1t by a ditch, is a broad, secure walk for pedestrians, The country is rolling, and atone piace there Isa two-mile view of this fine highway, crowded with all man ner of vehicles—chariots, drag, buggy, ba:ouche, coupe, dog cart, landaulet, market wagon, hay wagon, cart, and omn\bus—dropping ‘rom the eye to a valley, and again ascending by a gentile graee to another far-distamt erest, The thrifty farmers of the Saratoga country come in from a radias of ty miles during regatta and turf weeks, ‘ing thelr five Vermont and Mohawk horses with them, damping out at night, Gypsy (asnion, They do not possess the petty rapacity and want of humor accredited to the Jersey farmer or the Long Islander, who annually besiege the coastwise watering places, Tho Saratoga Jebu drives like blazes, cracking his whip and oke, and he makes you hold your breath while he gallops his horses In harness, The road {rom the Springs to the lake has been well compared to the human panorama between London and Epsom on Derby Day. Great water tanks stationed at the wayside supply the sprink- ling teams, which get to wor! lay the dust, Exquisite mountain views peepover the top of the landscape; great fleids of potatoes, veg. etables and grain adorn the wayside, Bits of lakeiet and noble ping aud elm mposed eritical weather prophets, who knew the unstable and le nature of the lake, which can rise tn and miniature billows while the rest of the ‘ape wears 8 calm like the truce of However, all breakfnsted early and away. The omnjbu: generally took a dollar for the round trip; curmadgeon stickied for two each Way, and lost the better part of a load by delaying fer that figure, Carriages came bigh; $8 to $15 were demanded ip special casos for @ common buggy aud driver, Barouches often cost $20, was an nse number of teams, all that were requisite, and as the malority Of these made two and tures trivg —<———$$$__ everybody got to (ne ground who cared to, The tariff for admission to the grand stana was Oxed as high as if to see a ronning race with horses, There is no good reason why this should net be Abolished altogether in the nercafter, and the orderly multitude permitted to enter as wii freely. Many a littie wayside group attracted attentions Here went a dwarf, scarcely three feet along with rm. Jed by a child, singing carriages leisurely approaching, and turning nes green goggles and printed placard toward the tourists, Strapping students were walking af the roadside Whistling, Ail the negro waiters who could be excused from almost empty Sara- toga footed it to tne lake, decoratea wite college balges, Many of the omnibuses and carriage horses were ornamente@d with colie; streamers. Fond mothers, sisters, cousins lovers donned whole dresses of blue and white fon Columbia and.crimson for Wesleyan. Little boyd carried fags and bannerets of the colors of their big brothers. Young damsels nad their braids bound up with the magenta and the biue, verbody, regardless of tne contrasts of his complexion, wore the necktie o} his college, Some went singing college atrs; others guying @ wagon load from some opposite college; others making tne college cheer, Tha roads were carefully sprinkle At places ser. Yants stood at the water tanks to sponge out the horses’ mouths, After reaching the lake the road continges along its brink for neariy 9 mile and then descends through the woods, in which many & DOoLn bas pen ireshly erected to sell lemonade, Janeheon and lager. No liquors were to be bad a@ny Where near the lake, TRY WEATHER AT THR LAKE WAS Cool And pisasans Jor spectators, Dut lower. ing In the sky, and the rapidly freshening water at half-past nine o'clock betokene: jubtial prow Ability of the race, At times in reappeared and cast a glaze over the new mown marsp hay, the OW Willows at the beach of the lake, tne