Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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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...
...regular spring race between the four clubs will take place two weeks before the proposed regatta, but will exclude fours. It is proposed that there be on the same day a single-scull race for Harvard, Union, and other amateur rowing-associations of the vicinity...
...give them their hearty support. The floats will probably be down before the end of this week, and the sixes ought to begin at once. It is from these four crews that the best six men will be chosen to represent Harvard in the combination regatta...
...adhere rigorously to their part of the bargain with Mr. Blakey. In another column will be found an account of the meeting and the programme of the approaching races. It is to be hoped that the Union Boat-Club will consider favorably the plan proposed for the combination regatta between the sixes and also between the fours, as the entrance of this well-known rowing association into the race will create new interest in boating, and afford some incentive to row and train for the next two months, beside the customary pewter mug. If convenient to the Union, the first...
...been sent to Cornell, that said challenge had been accepted, and that a vote had been passed in a class-meeting to support their captain and their crew, seemed to make no impression on their minds. They spared themselves, it is true, the disgrace of withdrawing from a regatta after their challenge had been accepted; but they exposed themselves to a similar disgrace by not making any preparations. We are happy to state that a decided change has taken place within the last few days, and that the Freshmen have begun to realize their responsibilities. We believe they are capable...