OUR SPORTING COLUMN.

The Freshman Crew give the impression to those who watch them carefully that several of the members are half-hearted in their work, and make but a semblance of training. These should realize that merely pulling a certain number of strokes, and running or walking a certain distance, is not the only requisite to secure and keep perfect condition. There are a thousand and one minor matters that need equal attention, and which one's sense of honor and duty only can enforce. They have the reputation of their class at stake, and anything tending, however indirectly, to damage that is dishonorable, and nothing else.

Cambridge-Oxford. Cambridge 'Varsity crew began hard work on February 26, and Oxford also started on strict training one day later. The composition of the crew is not as yet definitely decided on.

N. A. A. O. This regatta will be held at Saratoga on the 9th, 10th, and 11th of July, and the first day has been set apart for the intercollegiate contests. These races are exciting much interest among colleges in general, and will be doubtless sure of a large entry.

ATHLETICS.C. C. A. C. A. We call the attention of our University Athletes to the Athletic sports of the Columbia College Athletic Club, to be held on the evenings of April 4 and 5, at Gilmore's Garden, New York. First and second prize medals will be offered for each event. The first evening will be devoted to College Athletes exclusively, the second to sports open to any amateur. In addition to these sports there will be, on April 5, beginning at 1 P.M., a four-hour go-as-you please race, open to any amateur.

We append a summary of sports, and it is earnestly to be hoped that some few men will have energy and enterprise enough to go on and represent their college. The H. A. A., we believe, provide contestants with badges for the occasion, but whether they pay their expenses on or not, we do not know:-

Friday and Saturday evenings: First, open to students from any college, 1-mile walk, 1-mile run, half-mile run, quarter-mile run, 220-yard run, 75-yard run, running high jump, tug-of-war, teams of 6 men. Second, open to any amateur, 2-mile handicap walk, 1-mile handicap walk, 1-mile handicap run, half-mile handicap run, quarter-mile handicap run, 75-yard handicap run, 440-yard handicap hurdle - race, 20 hurdles, 2 ft. 6 in. high, 3-mile bicycle race, 1-mile walk (barring 7-minute men), amateur tug-of-war (teams of 10 men), amateur tug-of-war for light-weights (teams of 6 men), each man to weigh less than 150 lbs., men to weigh at Wood's Gymnasium, 4 and 6 East Twenty-eighth Street, April 3, at 8 P.M.; military tug-of-war (by special request) between company teams from the Seventh, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third regiments, N. G. S. N. Y. (teams of 6 men). Each team shall be allowed two substitutes. Saturday, at 1 o'clock, P. M., there will be a four-hour race, go as you please, open to any amateur who has never, in an open race, beaten 8 min. 30 sec. in a mile walk, or 5 min. 40 sec. in a mile run. No entry will be received unless accompanied with the fee. Entrance-fee, for each event, other than the tugs-of-war, $ 1; tugs-of-war, for each team, $ 5. Entries close March 29, to J. T. Goodwin, Columbia College.