Great Amateur Regatta. The Watkins Regatta Association will, near the end of May, hold at Watkins Glen, N. Y., a grand regatta, open to all amateurs of America. In addition to the usual races, there will be three special trial-races for fours, pairs, and singles, over a straightaway course of one mile and five-sixteenths, the exact length of the regatta course at Henley, England. The winners of these three trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races. It is to be hoped that the enterprise and liberality of the Committee will be recognized and rewarded by a large entry and fine competition, and that thus the really best amateurs in America may be sent abroad.

The National Regatta. It is suggested that if the National Regatta, held at New York in June, included two races for College Fours and Eights, to be called, respectively, the "Visitors' Cup" and the "Ladies' Cup," nearly all the colleges would send crews to one or both. Cornell, Columbia, Yale, and Harvard would possibly meet in the "Ladies' Cup," while the same colleges, and many of the smaller ones, like Dartmouth, Princeton, etc., would send fours to compete in the other race. Since the disbanding of the Association of American Colleges the smaller institutions have been left out in the cold, and although, doubtless, ready and willing to row, they have found no suitable races in which to enter. Here is a grand chance for reviving college rivalry and rousing the boating interest, which is fast becoming dormant.

English vs. American Colleges. Bell's Life, under date of March 2, says that Oxford neither threw down the gauntlet to American colleges, nor did they take it up, or purpose doing so. If any college enters at Henley and takes its chance of meeting an Oxford or Cambridge boat, every facility and a hearty welcome will be afforded them. Because Oxford accepted Harvard's challenge once, is no reason why she should accept it again, much less that of any other college.

ATHLETICS.This is the season of athletic sports at the different colleges of the two English Universities, and short summaries of the performances may be of interest.

Oxford University, University College, Feb. 21 and 22. - 100 yards, F. A. Govett, 11 sec.; high jump, F. A. Govett, 5 ft. 1/4 in.; 150-yards handicap, F. D. Blake (11 yards start), 15 1/5 sec.; 440-yards, E. C. Cumberbatch, 55 1/5 sec; 120-yards hurdle, C. R. Mackenzie, 20 2/5 sec.; 880-yards handicap, E. Brierly (47 yards start), 2 min. 9 4/5 sec.; broad jump, A. A. Tobin, 18 ft. 3 1/2 in.; mile-race, A. F. Hills, 4 min. 45 3/5 sec.; quarter-mile handicap, F. D. Blake (25 yards start), 51 2/5 sec.

Oxford University, Brazenose College, February 15. - 100 yards, C. Trepplin, 11 1/5 sec.; broad jump, A. T. Heath, 19 ft. 10 in.; mile-handicap, J. Lang (scratch), 5 min. 3 sec.; mile-walk, A. C. King, 9 min. 18 sec.

Eton College, February 22. - The annual race of the school mile was won by the Hon. M. Hawke in 4 min. 49 sec.; W. Thompson won the Junior mile in 5 min. 50 1/2 sec.

Cambridge University, Downing College, February 21. - 100 yards, H. W. Hunting, 11 2/5 sec.; high jump, F. T. Marryatt, 4 ft. 10 in.; 200-yards handicap, F. B. Palmer (5 yards start), 23 3/5 sec.; wide jump, H. W. Hunting, 18 ft. 10 in.; 440 yards, H. W. Hunting, 60 3/5 sec.; mile-race, A. Palmer, 5 min. 19 sec.; 880-yards handicap, C. J. Johnstone (39 yards start), 1 min. 9 4/5 sec.

Cambridge University, Queen's College, February 28. - 100 yards, J. D. Best, 11 sec.; 200-yards handicap, J. D. Best (2 yards start), 23 3/5 sec.; 440 yards, J. Y. Dawbarn, 57 1/5 sec.; 880-yards handicap, J. Parkin, (scratch), 2 min. 14 2/5 sec.; high jump, J. D. Best, 4 ft. 11 1/2 in.; mile-race, J. Parkin, 5 min. 14 4/5 sec.; 120-yards open race, T. A. Wallis (9 yards start), 12 3/5 sec.

Cambridge University, Corpus Christi, February 25 - 100 yards, S. Palmer, 11 sec.; 120-yards handicap, H. G. Winter (6 yards start), 13 2/5 sec.; 120-yards boat-club handicap, J. B. Heywood, 13 4/5 sec.; high jump, P. H. Collins 5 ft.; 440 yards, J. B. Beard, 57 1/5 sec.; 200-yards Freshman race, A. Leahy, 24 sec.; wide jump, S. Palmer 19 ft. 9 in.; 120-yards hurdle, S. Palmer (penalized 4 yards), 19 2/5 sec.; mile-race, D. Wheeler (penalized 30 yards), 5 min. 8 1/5 sec.; 440-yards open handicap, R. Boughton-Lee, 34 yards, 51 sec.

The average of these sports is above ours; but if we reflect upon the many advantages of turf, weather, etc. that they possess over us, we need not feel discouraged. When the much-talked-of track is laid on Jarvis, Harvard men will have no excuse for not training well, and we feel confident that we can, by a little exertion in the right direction, improve our own record a great deal, if in fact we do not equal this of Oxford and Cambridge.

FOOT-BALL.Cambridge-Oxford. The match between these Universities was kicked on February 23, and resulted in a victory for Cambridge by a score of five goals to one.