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Z( r -4---'-stgft z r.-...--• - " . .:tf .----,- -,-----. -=---- - ^"- - -t---.... -- --- ." -- c-P- -, .- * 1 No.. , •'.----.7•------_-_-_,--_-.- V.l - ig• "•':s - Z-•= - ;, ---- -, ,-. - ''' • •-A - - -----'---- , ' 'lk ---€. 4 oLUME LXXXIV . . . f Frs mth, Chiswick, res, e ll e o r tr tl i :7,1 ,ulret i oge l vtfN i etalroac z paryfounpiesseE. •almost Unable 78 _ , to carry the vast numbers in waitng at thd depots. It is no exaggeration to state that probably a million of peoi)le wit nessed the race. I I . The Harvard crew wonthe toss for po sition and chose the Middlesex Riddle, l the outside of the semi -circle. Bo h boats - started at five o'ciciek, fourtetin minutes and mix and a half seconds. The tide at the staat was sluggish and‘ a light.south . west breeze prevailed, with smooth water. The Harvards weir, the first to catch the water and took the lead, gaining rapidly upon their oppo nents and making folty-live strokes per minute against the Oxfords forty. At Bishop's Creek, three furlongs from the start, the Harvards led half a length. and gaining heaciWay 4 they increased their lead, as they passed the Wil lows. Their pace was subsequently slackened and the Oxfords pulled up, but the Harvards were still tbree-fourgs of a length aheadl4,Celiven POint, three quarters of a mile Mb% the start. • The Oxfords now went on with a steady drag, tint the Americans tepidly increased their lead, and at Crab Tree. a mile and an eighth from tar Aqueduct, were a couple of lengths Abead; Beyond here the Harvards were taken wide, and the Oxfords, quillikning their speed, reduced tho gar llic the Soap Works, a mile and a half from the start, to half a length. The Harvard, now pulled with a magnificent burst to Ham inersmilh bridge, a mile and three-quar- 1 tern, but in shooting the bridge lost the distance they had gained. Opixiaits the middle wall the Oxfords, , t•litirted and came up gradually 0.: the Harvards, 1 but when opposite the Doves the boats . were found to be too Close togetherCH!; and ~tit'a Harvards gave way, and- at wick, two and a half miles, the boats were level. After proceeding fifty yards further, the Oxfords began to gain, though temporarily, and the Har vards soon got even with them. Toe Ox fords gained rapidly at Chiswick, where it became clear that the pace apparently told on the Harvards, who were rather wild at this part of the race. From this point the Oxfords rapidly crew ahead, in a few strokes obtaining a lead of two lengths. The Harvards rowing pluckily held them there for half a mile, when they fell astern, and the Oxfords, at thirty-eight strokes per minute, shot Barns Bridge, RV miles). three lengths ahead. Along Barns Reach, the Harvards-refreshed their stroke, Mr. Loring, with river water, thereby retarding their boat. The Americans then tried to spurt, but found the effort ineffectual, and the Oic . - fords, getting more of a lead, eventually won the race by four lengths, easing np in the last few strokes and pulling up fresh. The Oxfords arrived at the ahip at five o'clock, thirty-six minutes and forty. seven seconds, making the four and one nurth miles in twenty-two minutes and forty and one-half seconds. The Amer icans were well received at the finish, and returning, landed at Barnes. The race was a good, one, and excited a degree of . enthusiasni along the banks of the river utterly unknown in 'former races. nARVARD vs. OXFORD. The InternatOnal Boat Race. THE OXFORD CREW WINS Harvard . Six . Seconds Behind [By Teleitreph to the ritCburgh Gazette.] PRESS COMMENTS. LONDON, August 27.—/brenoon.—The newspapers to-day publish their closing comments on the boat race. The Tele . graph eulogizes the Elliott beat as light, • fast and graceful; it travels well and suits She crew. "We do not expect," the Tele ' vraph stays, "that the Harvards can win the race, but the changes made by them bring the crews more on a level. On the whole, we think it will be a capital race s bat that the Oxfords will defeat their gallant adversaries without difficulty. If otherwise, the Harvards must have an ovation, to show that we are not ashamed to be beaten by our excellent Cousins." . The writer takes, the opportunity to • si&cowledge to the' full extent the °b ilious fiLd'AseAtable _disadvantage the ' Harvards have contended against. "The • river and everything wea change and tinfamdiar, and masters as they were e. the seiencertif rowing, they had to - study almost like the alphaoet of a foreign lan guage. The Oxfords, on the Charles r I river, would labor under similar (thud. vantages. All that can .be said is the Add grace to victory P ." , y The Star says: "Tee Americans are in dividually more po .verful than the Ox ,.fords, but it is thought their training is r • not according to .the English notion of strictness." The Daily News says: "Above all things 4 , we are anxious that the contest shall be sharp from first to last—that the victory, • • •i whether on one or the other side, shall be so hard to win as to cover the winners • and losers alike with glory." STYLE OF ROW/NQ. .1 The, following is the letter of Mr. ~1 Blaikie, sent to 'the. London Tunes for publication: •' , "Sim After it has been asserted, for • . the.last three week; that the Harvard fcli-artrendeataartartcr-andbm, their style - of rowing to the gentlemen they ,• • hope to meet on the river, •will you per mit me to say, in advance of the contest, • ; . that the assertion is groundless. We be , ; lieve our style to be exactly that adopted • ; 1 by us in each of our last three annual races against the Yale crew. Our stroke oar is aware of no change, and the men who follow stroke are aware of none, nor has there been any variation of our method of training or instructions. It is • said, also, that the Americans will row :•-•" , in an Eadlish boat. That is equally in : correct. They will row in a boat built of Spanish cedar by an American builder, • the frame of which we brought from home, and the lines of which are identi cal with those on which the boat we rowed in last year was constructed. . • "If we may Judge bv the stress laid on these latter points in the English jour nals, they are deemed, as they appear to Its, of some importance. We ask' to place ourselves right in respect to them, so that whether we are to win or lose, the merit of our victory or the blame of oar defeatni may fall where it belongs. (Signed.] WILLIAM Brantts. Secretary of the Harvard Club." THE RACE—FIRST DISPATCH; LONDON, August 27—Forenoon.—The impression is general that the race of to day to Hammersmith will be agreat one. The bridge at Putney has been com pletely barred, and no boats except those - of the umpire and press will be allowed to pass. Betting is two to one and seven to four on the. Oxfords. It is reported that several American gentlemen now here are prepared to stake one thousand pounds on the success of the Ilarverda. SECOND DISPATCH. The Harvard crew won the toes, aria chose the Middlesex side, the outside of the semi -circle. Both boats started at five o'clock, fourteen minutes, six and a half seconds. The Oxfords arrived at the ship first at five. o'clock, thirty -six minutes, lorty-seven seconds. Time -of the race, twenty-two minutes, forty - and a half seconds. The weather wail fine and hot; there . was some wind , but the water was in good vondition. Before the race the excite. . meat was intense. The rivet bank have been lined with spectators since morn. inst., and the cars were almost unable to carry the crowds waiting at the depots. 5:48 P. M. Greenwich time--The Oxford crew won the race by three lengths. The Haryards were-".'six spconds. behind. 'Time of race, 4:45g. ' - CHARACTER OF THE RACE. Nzw i Toraci — August 27.—A dispatch to tue World says the great boat race be tween the Oxfords and Harvards took place this morning, and was witnessed by thousands upon thousands of persons. The river was beautifully, smooth, and when the tide was at its height the crafts -shot oat from the shore at • Putney aque duct and got ready for the start— Both, crews were in capital trim. At the sig.' nal a handsome get off was effected,-the oxfords Jumping to the lead, bat were soon overtaken : and the boats rowed in position until they neared Hammer 2•smith bridge,, where the Oxfords 'drew abead r and increased their advantage UR. til IWO boat lengths separated them. • After the bridge was pasted .under, they further pulled in advance and xeached - Mortlake about theed • lengths ahead of the Harvard& , r Thee , was the finest and most determined ever lbwed. • • DETAILED ACCOUNT. LONDON, August 27.—The excitement Taco gay over te great ternational t t rsce has been, h intense. ln of The banks the Ithames have been lined with spectators alnoe an early hour this forenoon. The ..,•eity has been almost deserted and busi ness quite neglected. Vehicles of all de •serletions. bearing the Harvard and• O xford colors and heavily laden - with peo rpte. crowded all the roads leading to the