and pointers will be a feature in the exhibition, already ex- 
citing much attention with the fraternity, and it is antici- 
pated, and, indeed, they intend to make it, the first dispiny 
of thoroughbreds ever brought together in this country. I 
don’t see why they may not. I have never seen so mnny 
or such fine slock in all my travels. The moment I crossed 
from Cincinnati into Covington I felt the true inspiration 
such as I never felt before. It pervaded the atmosphere, 
and was manifested in that good old fashioned hospitality 
for which ‘‘old Kentuck" is justly famous. Come when 
or where you will, “act well your part, and there the hon- 
or lies. ' Bring along your gun and dog, make a few mis- 
shots, put your fnitlt in “the boys,” and you will be at 
homo with the “Hunters of Kentucky.” Bahkicu. 
Lcalnyton, Ky., March 2 nth, 1875. 
-T h0 Nottingham Spring Handicap was won by Castle 
VY ellun. 3 
—Racing commences .in New Orleans on Saturday 3d 
instant. 3 
—Spindrift is now owned entirely by Joseph Donahue. 
1 lie same turfite has purchased the bay mare Countess, by 
Kentucky out of Lady Blessingtou, full sister to Count 
D Orsey from Mr. Belmont. The marc wns cheap at the 
ictC| ^1.000. 
—The stakes of the Lexington Association at the comimr 
Spring meeting were dosed on the 15th ult. The Plnenix 
Hotel Stakes for three-year olds, one mile and a half, has 
fifteen nominations. The Citizens Stakes for threoyear 
olds, t wo miles, eleven entries. Two-year old sweepstakes, 
half n mile, fifteen entries. Mile heat sweeepstakes for 
three year olds, eight entries, and a post sweepstakes for 
all ages, a mile and a half, five subscribers. 
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T HE CHALLENGE FLAG FOR ICE BOATS. 
Any of our readers who may drop into Tiffany’s will be 
veil repaid for their trouble by inspecting the model of an 
lee boat on exhibition there, together with an elegant silk 
pennant 30 feel in length, hold by the New Hamburgh Ice- 
Boat Club, but which is now offered for competition to all 
Ice Yacht Clubs in Europe and America under the follow- 
ing conditions. The following rules of competition have 
been adopted: — 
I . This flag is always to bo considered as a challenge flag, 
ami never to become the individual property of any Club 
winning it. * 
2. The Club holding the Flag is liable to be challenged, 
during its ice yachting season, by any organized Club in 
l us country or Europe, the challenge to be in the name of 
the Club, and sent through its secretary, in writing, to the 
secretary of the Club so challenged; and such challenge or 
challenges, must be accepted, and sailed for in the order in 
which they have been respectively received. The Club re- 
ceiving the challenge must immediately nppoint a commit- 
tee of three for this race, who shall appoint the day, start 
(n * bcmls, take their time, settle nil questions connected 
wnh the race, and proclaim the winner; and from the do- 
cimou ol this Committee there shall bo no appeal. The 
Club chajleuging need not enter more than one boat if pre- 
ferred The Club holding the flag cau oppose with one or 
more boats at, its option. 
3 Any challenge, for any other purpose, that may exist 
unsettled between the Club challenging nnd the Club chal- 
lenged must bo sailed for before the race for this Flag can 
take place between them. 
I All races for this Flag, shall be sailed over the annual 
regatta course of the Club challenged; but if the ice on 
such course be in no proper condition for sailing upon, the 
ra ;e shall be sailed over the uearest neutral course, said 
co irsc to be selected by the Committee appointed for this 
race. 
0. No Club can challenge the Club holding this flag more 
than once during each ice yachting season. 
4 , 1 * races f° r this flag shall be sailed for according to 
the sail mg rules and regulations of the Club holding it 
1. Hus flag is a silk pennant, 30 feet long, with the 
words, “Ice Yacht Challege Pennant of America," in gold 
letters on the blue ground, and it shall always be known nnd 
sailed for as the 14 /cc Yacht Challenge Pennant of America M 
Irving Grinnell, Commodore, N. H. I. B. C. 
I . A. M. Van Wyck, Secretary. 
— 
Beverly \ aciit Cluh. — At a meeting of the Beverly 
Yacht Club, held Saturday evening, the old table of al- 
lowances was discarded and a new one adopted resembl- 
ing greatly that of the Dorchester Yacht Club, but ar- 
ranged for yachts of thirty feet water line and under. The 
following dates were also fixed on for the regattas of the 
season:— 1st, Tuesday, duly 0th, at Beverly; 2d. Monday, 
July 20th, atNahant; 3d, Saturday, August 14th, at Swamp- 
Bcolt; 4th, Saturday, September 4th, at Beverly. 
Boston Yacht Club. — Members of the club are sub- 
scribing liberally towards the fund boing raised for the 
purpose of repairing damages caused by the ice. It has 
been decided to move the Club House fifty feet inland. 
1 he first yacht launched at City Point, South Boston, 
“ las ‘ 8 . eas °n. was the sloop yacht Sunbeam, 
Captain \Y . S. Nickerson. Several others are fast ap- 
proaching readiness to enter their natural element. 
y , a w a u Els ^’ belon « i “g to the Boston and Dorchester 
yacht cJubs hw been purchased of her Jate owner Captain 
CENTRE BOARDS AND KEELS. 
Peotonb, III., Feb. 5, 1875. 
Editor Fojibbt and Stream . — 
I t ,nvc noticed «t different limes In your pnper, I think, and also In the 
"Aqnnllc Monthly," a good deal about centre-boards vs. keels, and wish 
to add my mite of Information, or, perhaps, I should say, give my 
opinion a* to their relative merits. My ideas are based on what I have 
seen In regattas, nnd in sailing boats of both kinds. I think that centre- 
hoards hove nil the good qualities of the keel boat In going on the wind, 
and arc decidedly better In running free. Indeed I run not sure that a 
centre-board will not lay closer to the wind than n keel, for with the 
hoard down, there Is more surface undor water to resist the pressure of 
the wind sldewnys than In a keel, aud therefore they do not niuke ns 
mncli leeway. 
The only disadvantage which a centre-board has Is. that the box takes 
np n great deal of room, and prevents the possibility of a roomy cabin, 
unless In a large boat. Rut, after all, I don't know ns this is u disadvan- 
tage, for the box is taken advantage of to make a table, the leaves of 
which are let down against the sides when not in use, and the room, 
which would be taken np with a table, is eavod. 
As to rig, I would always rig a boat of from thirty to forty feet over all 
ns u sloop, preferring to have my canvas in one or two Inigo sails, via.: 
Jib and mainsail, to three or more smaller ones; mid any boat under 
thirty feet should always be rigged as a sloop or cat. 
I remember a queer contrivance used by a friend of mine. When 
running before the wind he took a jib topsail and mude the head fast at 
the heel of the innlnboom, and hauled the tack out to the end. bringing 
the outhaul aboard nnd belaying to the pins for the topsail gear, then 
bringing the sheet aboard nnd belaying to the Jib sheet pins, the sail set 
something like a water sail, and a good dual of wind was saved. 
Perhaps some of your readers have iricd this, If so, I am sure they found 
It an advantage. Yours, &c , Cutter. 

Philadelphia, Murch 29, 1875. 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
Tlic breaking up of YViuter here promises to wake 
tilings up. Duck shooters were out in force last week 
but got hut few on the Delaware; the flocks, what few of 
wT?“u IarCh! ?£’. 0 -,. C ' 'Wolfo. °f Richmond, deleted 
S " rg"Ya' S ' Pcte,lrar S' the Milted champioSp 
1 'T™? ,OT Pfizcs, amotintlnir 
to $1,500, will be commenced at the Assemhlv TtillinrH 
Rooms on YVnshington street, Brooklyn, on April 1st con 
tinning until the 14th Vignaux and uCy play theorem 
ing games, followed by the brothers Dion. 1 - 1 
crp7.1 k n a il! g p!? f dry • er0Ur '- ( J - i8 - l ‘* comin g « fashionable re- 
treation in California, as it is in Europe. In San Francisco 
and all the large cities rinks have been constructed with 
floors of asphalt or some rough surface, for the use of the 
drawing room roller skates; and as these can be used Sum- 
mer and YVinter, they are much enjoyed. 
Cornell University, March 20, 1875 . 
Editor Forest and Stream:— 
The mild weather of a fortnight ago caused many of our boating men 
to anticipate a speedy opening of the lake, but they are still obliged to 
seek their practice In the gymnasium. We are now using a new stvie 
of rowing machine. In place of the old pulleys nnd weights, consisting 
of friction plates held together by a regulating screw, with a sweep at- 
tached, which takes the place of the oar. In recovering, the sweep must 
bo feathered ns in actual rowing, or it cannot be poshed back, as if it is 
not lorned into position again at the beginning of the stroke the plates 
do not produce friction, and the same result takes place as in pulling an 
oar through the air— no resistance. Rowing with them approaches the 
nenrest to rowing in a boat to that of any machine we have ever tried. 
The water machine, which we have also been testing, can be made to 
give a greater resistance, but no feathering is required, hence the fore 
arms and wrists get very little of that practice which the actual rowing 
is sure to give them, mid which the friction machine gives them to per- 
fection. A combination of the good features of the two would, in my 
private opiniou, give the ne j il'is ultra of a rowing machine. 
The men for neither the University nor Freshman crews have been 
dcflnitcly picked out ns yet, nor will they be In all probability until the 
lake opens, and practice can be resumed upon the water. The quarters 
known as the Sulphur Springs Hoase, near Snake Hill, have been se- 
cured for our crews at Saratoga. 
I see by the FonesT and Stream (hat wo shall be close neighbors to 
the Princeton crews. I trnst that the * orthodoxy” of Princeton will tlud 
no reason to complain of the proximity of our "raw recruits." J. 
“ uo.ugui up jiuiii IUC OUSLJlU/llUUim. 
i , bo . uti . n K season opened fully on Saturday, most of 
"•b'- “n, K-Miigu emus ru euier in me L-enieunial 
Regatta. 
Mr. T. B. Patterson, Jr., of the Crescent club, who has 
been in Europe for a year past, lias been officially appointed 
to the same task, and will visit the ainaleur clubs both in 
Great Britain, and Ireluud and the Continent during the 
early Summer. Sculls. 
• i ~ J h ,?. visit °. f ,he American Twelve of Philadelphia to 
the Hub Tax Cricket Tournament and their doings thereat 
are now collated in the next book form. J. B. Lippiucott 
& Co., of Philadelphia, arc the publishers. 
—The Excelsior club of Brooklyn proposes to discard 
the name of base ball in connection with the objects of the 
association. 
, — Tlie Mutual team for 1875 will be as follows:— Catcher 
Hicks; pitcher, Mathews; first base, Start; second base 
Nelson; third base, Gerburdt; short stop, -Holdswortb; left 
field, Gedney; centre field, McGee; right field, Booth; re- 
serve player, Hatfield. 
—The first game of the season in Philadelphia took place 
l (lxi DimnH.. If. . t ^ . . 1 
on the Parade Ground on March 27th. After playing seven 
of 7 to McKenna’s 5, 
innings Mason’s side won by a score . 
the score being small for an opening game. 
—The Mutuals and Atlanlics began practice in McQuade’s 
Hand Ball court on March 29lh. 
—The Philadelphia club will place the following nine in 
the field in their first match gamo:— Snyder c. Fisher p 
Malone lb McGeary 2b., Meyerle 3b., Fulmer s.s’ 
McMullen 1. f., Schaffer c. f., Addy r. f. This is a strong 
team. b 
.«T Th ^, Ccntennials wil1 P'ay the Philadelphians on April 
lfbli at Twenty-fifth street nnd Columbia avenue. In the 
interim Gloucester will be the scene of practice games. 
—The Athletics have engaged the Chestnut Street Rink 
for ball practice until they can play on the field. 
—The Centennials have leased the ground at Twenty- 
fourth street and Ridge avenue, occupied in 1863 by the 
Keystones and Genrys, but which of late years has been 
used as a horse market. The ground is easy of access by 
the street cars, the Union line, the Ridge avenue and the 
Thirteenth and Fifteenth street lines runuing by it. 
—The Shibes, of Philadelpia, will present an unusually 
strong nine for 1875. in fact the best they have ever placed 
on the field, selected from the following excellent players' 
Creamer, Coons, Reynolds, Fouser, O’Neill, Lutz, YVeaver' 
YVetzell, Borden, Householder, and Mooney. 
—The Philadelphia Mercury says:— “Dick Bigham, the 
White Stocking’s new catcher, was receutly arrested in 
Chicugo on the charge of having beaten and seriously in- 
jured a man named Conly. Dick was let off with a fine of 
ten dollars, but Billy Tracy, who was also concerned in the 
affray, was placed under $100 bail.” This is a good way of 
opening a season, truly. Fine or expulsion should be in 
order. 
—The Centennial nine is as follows:— McGinley, c.; 
Bechtel, p. ; Abudie, lb.; Somerville, 2b.; Craver, s.s.; 
Trenwith, 30 ; Treacy, 1. f. ; Warner, c. f. ; Lovett, r. f. 
and chauge pitcher; Radcliffe tenth man, to pluy third or 
change catcher with McGinley or Craver. 
— The Gavet testimonial at Tammany Hall on Good 
Friday through bad management, only netted tlie widow 
pbout$300. If it had been arranged for a good night it 
would have yielded $1,500 ; 
&civ Qnblicufious. 
MAGAZINES. 
The Galaxy , under the able direction of tlie Messrs. 
Church, .continues to retain its stroll? hold upon the public mind. In 
the April number the article descriptive of the Lenuox property, and the 
wonderful appreciation In the vuluc of real estate, contains much that 
will be of Interest to the city reader. The contributions of various pop- 
ular and able writers continue to make it readable and entertaining. 
Scribner's Monthly, as an illustrated monthly magazine, 
Is making giant strides in progress nnd improvement, much of which is 
undoubtedly due to the ability nnd popularity or Dr. Holland. The 
current number is even beyond tlie average. Mr. King has an article on 
Baltimore as the “Liverpool of America;" we presume he ranks New 
York as the London, but what will Philadelphia nnd Boston do about it? 
The St. Nicholas, from the same publishers, is an excel- 
lent nnd healthy periodical for the young folks. Miss Louise Allcott's 
name Is alsne a tower of strength in this direction. Her "Eight Cousins" 
is very interesting, but we must protest against the carelessness of part 
of the la-t lesson In geography. Afsam tea doeB not come from China, 
nor is opium one of the principal productions of that country. India 
supplies both articles. 
Perhaps the most important paper in the April num- 
ber of The Popular Science Monthly is that of Prof. Tyndall on "The 
Atmosphere in Relation to Fog Signaling." The experiments have been 
exhaustive, and result in the tola] overthrow of many old time theories. 
The Prof, advises the mariner when he hears a fog signal to assume that 
it is not more than two or three miles distant, and if bo errs, to err on 
the side of safety. 
The Wisconsin Lumberman is a magazine devoted to 
the lumbering interests of the Northwest, and besides much vuluable 
matter in sUtisUcal form, contains many pleasant sketches of woodland 
life. 
The Nassau Literary Magazine, published by the students 
of Princeton College, contains creditable papers on various subjects. 
The prize essay by Mr. WooleD on M. Guizot, Is exceedingly well 
written and entertaining. 
Cure for Colds and Headache.— “Mohawk” lias 
found a new prescription for colds and catarrhal headache. 
He says:— Take of Norwood’s tincture veratrum one drop 
on a small lump of sugar every two hours, and a three 
quarter quinine pill every three hours. 
Croup.— Croup can be cured in one minute, nnd the 
remedy is simply alum and sugar. The wav to accomplish 
this is to take a knife or grater aud shave off in small par- 
ticles about a teaspoonful of alum; then mix it with twice 
its quantity of sugar, to make it palatable, and adminisler 
it as quickly as possible. Almost instantaneous relief will 
follow. 
— “Calamink," in Chicago Field , says that “quail 
have become so plenty in portions of California, 
that many counties have petitioned to be ex- 
empted from their operation, as they eat up the grapes 
and are destroyed by hundreds of thousands with corn 
soaked in strychnine. The different varieties of wild 
geese are very destructive of the wheat crop in many 
localities. They pull it out of the soft ground in the rainy 
season, and eat it, roots and all. I see that in Colusa 
county and vicinity the damage last Spring was estimated 
at over two hundred thousand dollars.” 
— Seven hundred head of sheep belonging to Dr. Thomas 
Pollock, of Apache Creek, Colorado, were killed the other 
night by a compound of salt and strychnine, sprinkled in a 
corral by some unknown scoundrel. 
—Every species of snuke may be permanently driven 
away from an infested place by planting geraniums In 
South Africa, the Cafflr people thus rid their premises of 
snskes. 
—A student who evidently enjoys Hebrew has kindly 
given us directions as to how it should be rend:— Turn the 
book upside down, open at the end, put it in one corner of 
the room, stand on your head in the other corner, begin at 
tjie bottom line aqd read backward — Middletown College 
