AQUATICS, &c.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2039, 6 September 1880, Page 2

AQUATICS, &c.

The fifth yearly boat race between Yale and Harvard (which in America is equivalent to the annual contest between Oxford and Cambridge) was rowed on July Ist, terminating in a brilliant victory for the Tale mon, who won for the first time in four years. J. B. Warburton, otherwise "Choppy," a celebrated English pedeiitrian, has arrived in America, to participate in ten to thirty mile runs. He is credited with running ten miles in 59 29 on shipboard during his voyage across the Atlantic, and also with a twenty mile spin in England in lh. 56m:n and 38aec. He is matched to run thirty miles in three hours in October.

A Gbeat Swimming Eeat.—George Eearn, of Lor.don, the great English longdistance swimmer, who was second to Captain Webb in the six dayß' swim at the Lambeth Baths recently, swam from the foot of Thirtythird street, East River, through Hell Gate to Harry Hill's pavilion at the head of Flushing Bay, variously eetimated at from thirteen to fifteen miles, in 3h. 27min. 4Gsec, without leaving the water. "Bell's Life" is of the opinion that in Trickett, Hanlan will find his match all right, that the best time on record ov6? the Thames championship course will be reached, and a mark set for Englishmen to aim at. The Hanlan-Trickett race is a fixed event, and will take place from Putney to Mortlake on the Thames, in November next.