370 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Qachtinq and gaafiitg. 
All eommimleollemt from Secrtioru* and friends should be mailed no 
later than Monday In each week. 
HIGH WATER. 
FOR THE WEEK. 
Date. 
Boston. 
New York. 
Charlie Ion. 
n. v. 
II. u. 
B. M. 
.Inly 22 
S 20 
tl 2 
10 20 
July 
M 0 
11 45 
11 0 
July 21 
3 41 
eve. 30 
11 41 
July 25 
■1 35 
1 22 
eve. 35 
July ?6 
5 82 
2 18 
1 32 
July 27 
fi S3 
3 25 
2 39 
July 2$ 
7 51 
4 36 
3 51 
THE INTERCOLLEGIATE REGATTA. 
FROM OUK SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. 
Saratoga, July 16th, 1875. 
It has taken five years for the National Rowing Associa- 
tion of American Colleges to offer the public a successful 
general college regatta. Whether or not this good fortune 
on the fifth trial be accepted as a full compensation for the 
four wearisome failures which preceded it, the public 
ought at least to realize that, under the present system of 
intercollegiate rowing, a more satisfactory exhibition than 
the one of 1875 cannot reasonably be hoped for. Indeed, 
the chances are that another five years may roll around be- 
fore the associated colleges can again offer so successful a 
show, and the possibilities are thnt its like may never be 
offered at all. But it is certain that whatever fault oue 
may wish to find with this year's regatta must be found 
with the system itself; for, having once allowed for the 
many ineradicable disadvantages that attend a breast race 
between a large number of college boats, lie will find no 
room left for criticism. Good weather, good management, 
and good rowing were all present at Saratoga Luke this 
week. And the best men won. 
The Freshman race of Tuesday was witnessed by about 
2,500 people, though not so many as that were assembled 
at the grand stand, where one report declares “5,000 or 
6,000 people were gathered." Within twenty minutes of 
the signal call at half-past eleven the crews got into posi- 
tion, Brown being first in place, then in turn Princeton, 
Cornell, and Harvard, and at two minutes before twelve 
the “go” was given, and all four boats got a fairly eve»A- 
start, Harvard being quickest to catch the water. The 
simple statement that these boats crossed the finish line 
with an interval of but seventeen seconds between the 
first (Cornell) and the last (Princeton) tells the story of the 
most exciting and closely-contested Freshman race on rec- 
ord. Harvard lost by but five seconds, Brown was ten 
seconds behind Harvard, and Princeton was two seconds 
behind Brown. The time of the wiuners was announced 
at 17:32±, as against 18:10, the time of the winning Prince- 
ton Freshmen last year. Never before — save in 1871, when 
Harvard beat Browu by 17 seconds— have Freshman crews 
been so evenly matched. Thus, twenty-eight seconds was 
the time by which Yale beat Harvard in the Freshman 
match of 1867, at d by which Yale was defeated in the 
similar trial of two years later. In 1870 the Brown Fresh- 
men beat the Ytde by 24 seconds and the Harvard by 39. 
In 1872 die Wesleyau Freshmen heat the Amherst by 22 
seconds, the Brown by 92, and the Yale Scientific by 111; 
and in 1873 the Yale Freshmen beat the Amherst by 41 
seconds and the Harvard by 71. For four raw crews to 
row so pretty and even a race as did the Freshmen of this 
year was, therefore, an entire novelty, and the spectacle of 
their final struggle for supremacy was exciting to the most 
impassive observer. 
Not more than 250 people could be counted at the grand 
stand by half-past nine o'clock on Wednesday morning, 
but for the next two hours a continuous throng moved 
thitherward, and at the time of the race perhaps as many 
as 7,000 people had assembled there, though I hardly sup 
pose that the number of spectators at all points of the lake 
amounted to 8,000. Spite of some appearance of rough- 
ness in the waterthere was a general hopefulness that the 
race would be rowed, but the signal which announced that 
the crews were really “off” set many a doubling mind at 
rest, and was greeted with a hoarse murmur of gratified 
applause. At eleven o’clock, or jret fifteeu minutes after 
the signal call, the boat of Bowdoin took its place on the 
line, and afterward, with varying degrees of delay, extend- 
)Dg to half an hour in all, came Union, Cornell, Brown 
Williams, Harvard. Princeton, Hamilton, Amherst, Wes- 
leyan, Columbia, Yale, and Dartmouth. The order of their 
posit mns, named from the west shore, was as follows — 
ilhams, Cornell, Amherst, Bowdoin, Biowd, Columbia 
Wesleyan, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale, Hamilton, Har- 
vard, Coion The latest crew of all had been five minutes 
in position before the umpire’s steamer, delaved by a mis- 
har V.°. ' t f.? ad , dle ' g° t 1 iulj P lace - and *^n was discov- 
ered that the line of buoys must be somewhat straightened 
before the Marl c-oulj be made. It was five minutes past 
twelve, therefore, when the “go” was really given, and the 
Mventy-eight oarsmen began their long-looke.l-for struggle 
minutes and fifty three seconds later Cornell toucfied 
ilm? rv5 lm , e . and . W< ^ ,he race - Second '>y eleven seconds 
came Columbia, third by a second and a half wus Harvard 
fourth by five seconds was Dartmouth, fifth by three scc- 
Yale W T!m V n e 'fH{owVd n i? * iXth ?*,.*. t,in E le secon d came 
1 ale. 1 Ian followed the second division of the ruce, Am- 
henl seventh by fifteen seconds, Brown eighth by four sec- 
onds, Williams ninth by ten seconds, Bowdoin tenth by 
seven seconds, and yet three seconds less than a minute in 
the rear of the winning boat. Finally came Hamilton and 
Union, with no time taken,” and utter them the tidings 
tha the thirteenth bout, Princeton, had stopped at the end 
of the second mile with sick man as a passenger Yale 
l 8 ’ B ?, < *•" mnc seconds behind Harvard lust 
as in 186J w hen the two crews came together more clcielv 
at the finish than in auy other university race before this 
one. The winning seconds o( time in n,» - B 
that immediately preceded the formation oMhe® Rowing 
Association were as follows 18li|, 42; 1805, 20? 1800 if. 
1867. 72; 1868, 50; 1870, 105. In 1871 the Agriculturists 
beut Harvard 87 seconds, and Brown 01. In 1872 Amherst 
beat the second boat (Harvard) 24 seconds, and the sixth 
and last (Yale) 100 seconds. In 1873 Yale beat Wesleyan 
(the second boat) 10 seconds, Harvard (the third boat) 37 
seconds, and Trinity (the tenth boat) 154 seconds. Last, 
y ■’ 
year Columbia beat Wesleyan eight seconds, Harvard 
twelve seconds, and Princeton, the eighth and Inst boat, 116 
seconds. Columns of descriptive writing could uot indi- 
cate more forcibly than these simple comparisons the un- 
wonted and exciting closeness of this year’s aquatic con- 
test. The sixth crew, who were twenty one seconds behind 
the victors in 1875, were evidently far better oarsmen than 
the sixth crew who were 100 seconds behind in 1871 . 
About a tenth part of the morning’s crowd were still at 
the lake when the start of the two-mile single scull race oc- 
curred, at 3 o’clock In the afternoon. The contestants were 
Julian Kennedy, of Yale, aged 23, and weighing 160 
pounds, and William F. Weld, of Harvard, aged lt$, and 
weighing ICO pounds. The former won the race by half a 
minute m 14:21, though lie had pulled iu the three-mile 
race with the Yale crew only three hours before. Weld, 
on the oilier hand, by order of the referee, had gone over 
the course at the hour regularly appointed for the race on 
the previous foreuoon, when Kennedy, through a mistake 
of tlie Regatta Committee, had failed to present himself. 
The street celebrations of Ibe early evening were in 
marked contrast to those of last year, when, on account of 
the "foul” which had thrown Yale out of the race, two 
hostile crowds, oue representing Columbia and Harvard, 
the other representing Wesleyan and Yale, rushed angrily 
through the hotel corridors ut tering cheers aud shouts of de- 
fiance toward each oilier, and apparently ready to accept 
the slightest pretext for a general scrambling fight. This 
year the best of good nature prevailed. Columbia mustered 
the largest crowd of partisans, and then in order, Cornell, 
Harvard, Yale, and Princeton men flocked around their 
several standards, but none of the other eight colleges had 
representatives enough present to “rally" and take part in 
the display. These live bands, therefore, inarched in long 
procession through the streets, waving their flogs and 
streamers, cheering and saluliug one another with opened 
rauks, and finally mixing their colors and marching arm 
and arm, Yale and Harvard, Cornell and Columbia, in one 
indiscriminate crowd, as a token of general “fraterniza- 
tion.” At midnight the victorious crews were escorted to 
one of the ball rooms, and there presented with the cham- 
pion flags and cups by Congressman Kellogg, of Connecti- 
cut. 
On Friday about 1,000 people went out to see the foot 
races at the Glen Mitchell Trotting Park, about a mile and 
a half from the village, the attendance being rather larger 
at the afternoon than at the morning meeting, and the nine 
“events" being all creditably ami satisfactorily contested. 
In the evening came the complimentary dinner to the Cor- 
nell crews, aud afterward the presentation of prizes won 
by the athletes of the day, three gold watches being in- 
cluded in the list. The rain of this'morning rather damp- 
ened the enthusiasm with which the Cornell men were sent 
homeward in their special palace car, and to-night the 
streets of the village give few tokens of the recent presence 
of the intercollegiate crowds. 
The regatta of 1875 has proved the practicability of lay- 
ing out racing lanes by lines of buoys upon a broad surface 
of water, and lias given a strong hint as to the possible su- 
periority of paper boats to those constructed of wood. It 
has been rowed without serious accidents, or complaints, 
or bickerings. There were numerous breakings of stretch- 
ers and catchings of crabs; a few oars were unshipped, and 
a few outriggers were loosened, but no serious claims are 
raised against the thoroughness of Cornell’s victory, which 
was indeed predicted by too many newspapers to make 
their surprise over its actual happening seem altogether 
genuine. The old habit of exaggerating the number of 
spectators was well kept up by the newspaper men. To a 
Times reporter, indeed “such a multitude presented itself 
on every hand that reason stopped counting, ami imagination 
boldly suggested myriads,” but lie afterward declared that 
“not less tbau 00,000 people witnessed the race,” though 
whether (his estimate was the result of reuaou or imagina- 
tion he thought it unnecessary to say— as, indeed, it was. 
Even the Saratoffian was content with asaerling that “from 
15,000 to 20,000” people were at the lake, while 1 ho Wor il 
came down to the approximately reasonable estimate of 
10,000. 
—The Bayonne Rowing Club inaugurated their new boat 
house on Saturday by a series of races, comprising one lor 
four-oared shells, another for four-oared barges, and one 
for single sculls. Two boats started for the first, and the 
crew with Walter Mann as stroke won, making the mile 
and a quarter in 7m. 20s. Two crews started also in the 
barge race, Mr. Van Buskirk’s winning in 8m. 80s. Three 
contestants appeared for the single scull race, viz. ;— J. L. 
Beach, E. E. Shuw, und W. E. Van Buskirk. The latter 
gained a slight lead at the start, followed closely by Shaw 
but the former won quite handily in 11m., Shaw’s time- 
being 11m. 10s., and Beach’s 11m. 13s. 
Regatta on Lake Ponchartrain.— This event occur- 
red on Monday last, 1,500 persons being assembled at Mil- 
teburg to witness the races. The single scull shell race 
was won by H. C. Clicever, of Charleston, by three lengths 
R. G. Musgrove, of the St. John club, second. The race 
was half a mile and return, and the time 9 : 45 J 
The pair oar shell race was won by the St. John dub 
Howard club second, and the Pelicun club third This 
race was three-quarters of a mile and return, and the 
time 1 1 :44. 
The four oared gig race was won by the Riversides by 
six lengths, Hope second. This ruce was one mile ami re- 
turn. and the time 14:08J. 
The four oared shell race was won by the Riversides by 
six lengths, Charleston second; distance, two miles- ti'irc 
14 minutes. ' 1 
—On Saturday 17th inst.,a match race in singles was 
rowed over the National course, near Philadelphia, one and 
a half miles straight away, between Clarence E. Steel of 
duh rC Me U T i ’i an T Frnnk T Pk, «Jonlon of Hie Veqn-r Boat 
club. Mi. John Lavens, Jr., of the Pennsylvania acted as 
umpire, and Mr. Win. Adilicks of the College dull as 
md g ni.n , ? ra, '“ e ? Cl l td i,,teresl . localise tl,<- same men 
had pulled a race in the Christiana Regalia, July 18th 187 1 
Pleosontou winning easily. ’ ’ 
» *° l “Way together before the word go was 
the Cemetery was a good length clear, but by keeping 
too fur to the east, lie got foul of the grass on tlio shn 
water, and Plcasonton, who was steering close ulonir ti 
west hank, picked up until In- was almost level. Culsai"' 
got clear and won by several lengths, in the very slow ti,,!". 
of 11 min. 475 sec. Sculi.h 0 
Cruihic ok thic Brooklyn Yacht Ci.uu,— Commodore 
Dickerson has issued his order from the Mnddeino for q,,. 
yachts proposing to part impute, in the annual cruise to > 
(lezvous ut’UlcifCove to-day. Huntington and Grcennnit 
id probably Manila's Vineyard, the fl,.,., 
will be visited, an 
disbanding at Newport. The following yachts are nuun-i'i 
as being likely to form the squadron :— Schooners Made, 
loine, Clio, Comet, Sett Witch, Let hen, Estolle, Syren, atm 
Gipsie; sloops, Sadie, Selene, Undine, Maggie Lizzie 
L., Lihbic 15., Helena, Florence, Flying Cloud, Emma T 
Schemer, Sophie, Playful, urui 
Red Jacket, Wliito Win 
Maria. 
The Caim: May Regatta —This event, of which such 
high antidpatloos bad been formed, was a success only . 
far as one day was concerned. The lack of wind on Mon. 
day rendered a postponement until the following day iuc 
cssary. On Tuesday there was wind enough to enable 
nice to he sailed, lull, not enough to bring out, the In t 
qualities of some of the yachts. The following are tin- 
entries: — 
Name. 
Molmwk 
Kumhl.-r 
8CUOOSSII8, 
Owner. 
.... Vice Com . Garner. 
. . , . \V . 11 Thomas 
rinh. 
New York. 
.New York.. 
Allowance 
M ' 
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Dr, adimii^lit 
Mndck-liiu 
. . C .1 . O-l-nrn 
. . . .Com . Dickerson 
. .New York. . 
.Brooklyn... 
0:11 
Kvu 
J. V. Creely 
Suusliluo 
K Hurd Grubb 
. .New S'-irk. 
21 - 
., II J. Hand 
New York 
I'Jib 
While Wing 
Vindox 
Sadie 
Kul-i-r Wilhelm. 
(*t.00P6. 
. . .Robert Coaler 
.... Hear Com. Dnv Idson. 
...I 11 N«rrl» 
BraoUI> m. 
. New h --vk 
Hrooklv.l 
New Y. -ik . 
II:." 
The course was from a stukebout anchored daff the hv, 
to the lightship on Five Fathom Bank, thence- around 
other stukebout to the home mark. '1 lie Kesyduto cr 
the line first in 10b. 35m. 38s., the others folk 
intervals. Much interest wus manifested in tl 
Mohawk. It is scarcely possible lo decide upo<fl‘ « yuclu j 
capabilities upon her first appearance, with bm'.y " ,| 
sails, hut the Indications arc that the Mohawk wW 11 l”ov 
success, and fulfill the anticipations of her oV v "'T 
builder. They passed the lightship in Ihu folP*' 
der: — 
Name. 
Idler 
Motion k . . . 
Itesolulu . 
Ham liter . 
Madeleine. 
.13 61 
II M ;> | Name. 
1 J J5 41 1 VlDdex 
13 Eva 
Id Ml in Dri-ndmiiighl , 
13 St il Smile •... 
id as 0;]Kut(.ur SVillivlm. . . 
Squuring oil' before the wind they passed the next s| 
boat without material change of positions. On the mu 
home the Mohawk succeeded in passing the Idler and tank 
first place- The Madeleine carried away lu-r fon -topnm-t 
and lost the use of fore-topsail and jili- topsail, but Inf 
great time allowance gave lu-r tin- prize, the Vindox tablin' 
the cup for sloops. The following tublo shows the otlii i d 
lime; — 
seiiooNxns. 
EIH|IHr,| 
Corn - in) 
Slai t 
Finish 
lime. 
'I 
I'Iiiic. 
Name. 
ll 
M 
9. 
ii 
M 
s. 
II 
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. s 
II 
M S 
Ifi-soliiie. 
..10 
-« 
53 
2! 
40 
3 
51 
47 
3 
« IS 
Idler 
39 
38 
2 
if5 
58 
3 
40 
20 
3 
St a 
Sunshine 
10 
37 
62 
Not limed. 
J. V. Creely.... 
.10 
AS 
38 
3 
22 
48 
4 
41 
J2 
4 
44 m 
Mohawk 
10 
40 
40 
2 
24 
41 
3 
41 
HI 
3 
■14 14 
Eva 
1* 
111 
48 
2 
41 
ill 
4 
n3 
21 
4 
II i" 
Dread naught 
. 10 
42 
09 
2 
IS 
30 
1 
ml 
33 
3 
Rambler 
.19 
43 
13 
i 
81 
5H 
3 
IN 
45 
8 
4*1 H 
Madeleine .... 
.10 
40 
5S 
MU 
II 
3 
43 
13 
3 
31 M 
Kai*cr W ilhelm 
.10 
30 
05 
8 
12 
33 
4 
S3 
28 
4 
13 M j 
While Wing 
III 
12 
33 
Not timi 
,1 
Vlndex 
III 
1 I 
HI 
2 
51 
03 
4 
111 
ns 
4 
ill i> 
Sadi-- 
III 
43 
3 
irj 
50 
•1 
1H 
id 
4 
II II 
On Wednesduy, there being no wind, the swecpt-tuU- 
raccs were ubuudoucd, and Hu- yachts returned home. 
Jr, ■/ .in d §ivcr #.*//%. 
FISH IN SEASON IN JULY. 
Tront, Sal mo fon H nulls, 
Salmon, Saltno talar 
Mnskcnongo, Kent nobUlor. 
W - ukll h 
Striped Hun. 
lilugUsb. 
SIici'IihIhuuI. 
.Salmon Trout. SithiU) conflnU. 
I.uml lneked Salmon, Dalmo o ' - - 
black Haw. miorojtleru* nijt n - 
Pike, t'ox Indue. 
I’li kcrul . 
Uliieflsh. 
{Under the heat of "flams, ,m.t run m Xea<n"wi cm jnii/'i" 
fj In tjeuernl 'smit the oov/vr/ oarU'let, because 'he !awt of Stm. • - 
no much that, were we to idUm/it to imrtUutarU t we oonltl due 
with the lawtqf their lytpecUne Ma/e* for corielimt reftrenoe. t/M""' - 
our title mute to tuuuel llum will oidv create cottfiiflon. 1 
Finii in Market —Fish of all descriptions have i» < u 
rather more plentiful during the past week than tin' " llC 
preceding. Salmon are coming in from tlio MirutniH 11 111 
larger quantities, hut to nothing like the extent as at a 1,111 
lar period last year; they sell for 30 lo 35 cents per P" lint *' 
Spanish mackerel arc being caught to some extent ■" " lir 
own waters, hut the Inrgest number still come from d'" vl 
cinily of Norfolk; price for the former 75 cents per pun"' -I 
for tlio latter 50 cents. Fresh mackerel are coming la k 
orally from the Massachusetts const, aud sell for 12) l ' clll | 
each. Striped bass from Baltimore, Philadelphia- :|l “ I 
Rhode Island, (singular how they dodge New York,) hra’Bj 
20 lo 25 cents per pound. The largest bluellsh are an" 11 
ceived from Rhode Island and Massachusetts, the I 11 ' 111 ' 
pal catches being in Buzzard’s Buy mid the 
Sound; iir.li weighing 12 to 14 poululs and selling f*»' y j 
10 cents per pound. Halibut are scarce at 18 cent s '- u ‘ 1 
fair supply nt 8 cents; shoepshoad from the Jersey c "'| 
sell for 20 to 25 cents. Large weak fish from the east I 
all- in good supply m 12 cents, but the smaller lUh U! T I 
taken in Ibis vicinity me very scarce. Sea bass from - 1 I 
port bring 18 to 20 cents. Soft crabs are scareO 1,111 
line, mid sell for $1.75 to $3 per dozen. Green turtle » 11 
limit at 15 cents per pound. 
