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When the position of Yale was announced, bets of $5,000 and $2,000 were offered that Yale would beat Harvard over the same course any time within a week. This was followed up by a challenge from Yale as follows...
SARATOGA, July 18.The Yale University Crew hereby challenges Harvard University to row a race under the regulations of the Regatta of 1874 at a time to be appointed within a week...
...SUMMARY of the contests of the regatta week at Saratoga will be found in another column, and we do not propose to load our columns with a lengthy recapitulation of the questions which the result has left in dispute...
...great event of the week, the University race, after a double postponement, came off on the morning of Saturday, July 18. The result is satisfactory to none but the gallant sons of Columbia, and, even in their case, we are confident that the gentlemanly spirit of rivalry which is characteristic of them would have prompted them to prefer a fair trial of superiority with their two most formidable rivals to the walk-away race they had of it after the Yale-Harvard foul...
UNIVERSITY RACE.As everybody knows, the great event of the week, the University race, was twice postponed on account of rough water, and the crowds which assembled on the afternoons of Thursday and Friday were somewhat thinned on the morning of Saturday the 18th. The boats came into position before their respective stake-boats, off Snake Hill, at a little before eleven o'clock, in the following order from the east or right-hand shore, looking down the course...