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RECREA TION. 



TRI-COLLEGIATE BOAT RACES. 



The contest between Poughkeepsie, New- 

 burgh and the other competing towns, for the 

 boat racing of the crews connected with Cornell 

 University, Columbia College and the University 

 of Pennsylvania, has been decided at Philadel- 

 phia in favor of Poughkeepsie. They will be run 

 June 21st. 



The people of the midway city of the Hudson 

 are properly jubilant over this decision and so 

 are the towns adjacent. Even Newburgh, which 

 failed to get the races, acquiesces gracefully, one 

 of its papers saying that the course is very con- 

 venient for visitors from the lower city to reach. 

 No doubt, too, the crews and their friends will 

 also appreciate Poughkeepsie's advantages for 

 the sport anticipated, and for wholesale hospi- 

 tality. Boat houses that are elegant and fully 

 equipped, and one very stylish house on the 

 banks of the river, are tendered to the various 

 crews for their use while the races last, and so 

 long as they may remain in the city. 



Those who know say that the course selected 

 is not to be surpassed by any space of water 

 that the Hudson affords. Both of the Hudson's 

 shores at Poughkeepsie are bluff shores, so that 

 spectators can hardly find a view point amiss on 

 either side, and as the course passes the entire city 

 boundary on the river, the opportunity for see- 

 ing the races will be good for all who wish to 

 attend them. 



The Poughkeepsie bridge, which will be an 

 interesting feature to those who come to the 

 boating contest, will be in full view of the whole 

 field, and the boats will pass under it. It is not 

 likely that spectators in any great number will be 

 allowed to occupy the bridge for seeing the races, 

 though some privileged persons may get that 

 opportunity. There is room there, of course, 

 for a large aerial crowd, but as it is not so 

 adapted for crowds or for broad masses of foot 

 passengers as the Brooklyn bridge is, it will 

 probably be regarded as imprudent or provoca- 

 tive of accident to crowd it, in such a way, on 

 such an exciting occasion. 



But there will be no need of so lofty an eyrie. 

 Enterprising citizens of Poughkeepsie have 

 already seen that the view from river boats 

 will be extensively demanded, so that sightseers 

 may keep within a uniform distance of the racing 

 boats, and several steamers have been already 

 chartered by them to meet this want. 



The date set for the races, either fortunately 

 or unfortunately, will hit the school vacations of 

 Vassar College and the various seminaries in 

 Poughkeepsie, which the out-of-town students 

 may regret. But they could hardly have found 

 time to see the races, had they come earlier and 

 at the busy end of the scholastic year. 



In reference to the crews that are to row 

 at these races, there can be nothing better 

 offered than the following paragraph from the 

 Poughkeepsie Neivs-Press : 



It is, of course, early to know much about the crews 

 to row here. Cornell has a crew already entered in 

 the Henley regatta to be rowed on the Thames, 

 England, early in June, which crew is probably the 

 strongest one representing Cornell. This team will not 

 be here. Cornell has three other crews, and they are 

 all in training under Charles Courtney, the famous 

 oarsman, on the lake at Ithaca. Two are 'Varsity 

 crews, and two freshmen crews at Cornell. The first 

 'Varsity crew is the Henley crew, but its make-up is 



subject to some change before it sails for England. 

 Some rowing sharps have supposed that the University 

 of Pennsylvania, or Columbia, have a better chance to 

 win than usual this year, because Cornell's crew in the 

 race will be a second one. This does look reasonable, 

 but in several scrub races at Ithaca the second crew 

 has generally beaten the first, although the first 

 contains most of the veterans of former victories. 



It is said that the crew Mr. Courtney will send to 

 England will be lighter in weight than the one that 

 will compete with the old rivals of the college at 

 Poughkeepsie, because the Henly course is shorter than 

 the regular four mile American college course for eight 

 oared crews. 



As evidence of the interest taken in these 

 races, it is said all the available boats between 

 New York and Albany have now been engaged 

 to carry passengers to the racing course. 



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