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...possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race. There is room enough in the Basin for a two-mile straightaway race, or for a three-mile race with a turn, and if these elements of novelty were introduced, the fall races might be made a success. The same craft could be used for the scratch races, making these a mile or more in distance and using the Charles River course...
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...
...This mode of racing is inconsistent with the rest of the idea. On the same ground that the race should not be a show, but an honorable struggle for victory, the interest, being undisturbed by "side-shows," should also be concentrated on the final result. And, too, the steady, straightaway pull of four miles is a race in which chance is far less likely to enter than in a race where a stake-boat must be turned. In such a race, although the separate stakes and the buoying remove the possibility of two crews fouling one another, the danger...
Course.- On Lake Saratoga, from nine stake-boats anchored in line below Snake Hill; thence three miles straightaway to a line near the entrance of Fish Creek...