Single Scull Racing.

I noticed in your issue of the 25th that the date of the race for the single scull "Challenge Cup," presented last year by Messrs. Thayer and Carroll, '85, is announced for some day between June 10th and 15th. In this race there is also a cup offered by the Boat Club for men who have never rowed a single scull race in college. The race thus offers inducements for those who have but little experience in single sculling. Indeed, in the present pititiable condition of single sculling, the merest tyro need have no hesitation in entering.

It is earnestly to be hoped that all men who have ever done any sculling at all, will come forward and make the race a success. That the race falls at so late a date should deter none from entering. No one is at present in training for the event, and all have an equal chance. That the race should fall in examination time is perhaps a pity, but we are sure that a short spin on the river in the afternoon will injure no one in his examinations.

The efforts of the Boat Club to kindle an interest in single sculling, should meet with some response from the college at large. It is shameful that rowing here should be confined to the 'varsity and four class eights. Single sculling is one of the highest forms of athletic exercise, and it reflects little credit to our athletic enterprise that it has been allowed to vanish from our regular programme of acquatics.

Single scull racing used, not so very long ago, to be an event of considerable general interest here. To hold the championship of the colleges was considered no inconsiderable distinction; an inter-collegiate cup far more prized than a first at Mott Haven.

The last single scull race with Yale was in '79, when Mr. Goddard of Harvard defeated Mr. Livingston of Yale at Worcester. In the following year Mr. Hall won the inter-collegiate single sculls for Harvard at the National Regatta. This seems to have been the last gasp of single sculling here; since then we have had no single scull races of note.

Cannot this interest be revived? Could rough sculling be once established on a firm footing, it would soon take a regular place in our inter collegiate contests, when to be Harvard's representative would be no mean honor.

G.A.