Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Henley Regatta. - The action of the Henley committee in compelling all American crews to enter six weeks before the regatta, and pay their entrance-fees then, is condemned on all sides. No reason can be assigned for such a step save that the English amateurs do not wish to row against oarsmen who are mechanics, and do not come under the head of "gentlemen" as they define the word. Either this or a wholesome fear of American oarsmen has influenced the regatta committee in taking this very unfair and unsportsmanlike stand...
...will result in entirely debarring American rowers from the Henley regatta; the Watkins Glen regatta comes off so short a time before Henley that it will be next to impossible for the winning crews at Watkins to enter and start at Henley. Besides, this arrogant committee reserves the right of rejecting any entry! So that a crew on the eve of the race might find itself ruled out, and no reasons assigned. Truly English love of fair-play has been sadly overpraised...
...Union to row with our four picked from the University second eight. The boat-club of the Young Men's Christian Association is unable, at its present stage of organization, to accept the challenge, but we understand that this rowing club will be glad to join the regatta if their plans are sufficiently advanced and the necessary arrangements made a few weeks before the race. An entry for the single-scull race has been made by the Newton Boat-Club, but this organization regrets that it cannot take part in the race on May 25. No reply has been received...
Yale. - At a meeting of the Y. U. B. C. on March 18, it was voted to send Kennedy, '76, and the Centennial four-oar, - Cook, '76, Collins, '77, Kellogg, '76, and Kennedy, '76,- or any crew that should be thought good enough, to the Watkins Glen Regatta. The Club "wish it distinctly understood that they will not undertake the expense, which must be defrayed by private subscription." In other words, Yale allows Kennedy to hunt up, organize, and train his old crew at his own expense, and in return permits him to have the talisman...
...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...