TWO weeks from to-day the Yale-Harvard race will be rowed at Springfield; an event which must attract, besides the friends of the two colleges, many spectators, because it is many a year since an eight-oared race has been rowed in this country. Who will be the victors we cannot say until the crews get upon the course. From the newspaper accounts of the "crews and their prospects," nothing can be learned. The men who write them are generally more ignorant than a tyro about boating, and their sources of information are very indirect.
Yale is to row a slow stroke of 32 or 34 to a minute; Harvard, the old stroke of 36 to a minute. Whichever wins, we shall probably have a long newspaper discussion, attempting to prove that the stroke of the winning crew is the better stroke. One trial proves nothing. the successful stroke for a number of years will be a more convincing argument.
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