Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Consular Representatives of different governments was held recently in this city, to consider a proposition for having a grand World's International Amateur Rowing Regatta in August of next year upon the Lake of Geneva, comprising the general order of races, with a series of special races for University Oarsmen...
...material in the boats that can be improved and developed in time. The impression left on the reader's mind is that Oxford is disappointed in her trials, and that her 'Varsity next Easter will not be the crew that she would like to enter in an international regatta. "We hardly expect the crew," says the Gazette, "to be quite so good as that of last spring, which was one of the fastest on record; but, as they all have good style to start with, they ought to get well together; and they are fairly, though not exceptionally, strong...
ROWING.M. A. A. O. - The Metropolitan Association of Amateur Oarsmen of New York have issued a programme for their next regatta on July 4, 1879. The races are for eight-oared shells with coxswains, and four-oared shells without coxswains, open only to college clubs; four-oared and six-oared shells with coxswains for juniors; four-oared, pair-oared, and double and single sculls for seniors and juniors, open to any amateur club. Apparently the first part of the programme is intended as an opposition to the National Association, who have just offered such handsome cups for college crews only...
...Columbia under the "auspices" of the National Association. We do not wish to appear unreasonable, but it seems to us that it would be better for Cornell and Harvard to row the race as agreed upon in the challenge than to complicate matters by competing in an open regatta with other colleges, at a date which may be so late in the summer as to prevent our crew's rowing in England. As the plans of the National Association are not entirely settled, and our own arrangements with the English Universities are not concluded, it is premature to say what...
...Passaic" cups, which have been offered by the boat-clubs named; and the Association is now in correspondence with the different colleges that are interested in rowing. The scheme, though ridiculed by some, seems to us a praiseworthy one. The system of an intercollegiate association, introducing an annual regatta for the "college championship," and deciding the character of this regatta according to the expense involved, or the preferences of a minority of the college world, has been proved conclusively a failure. It is desirable, however, that the crews of American colleges should meet occasionally and measure blades, and for this...