Aquatic Notes, Or, Sketches of the Rise and Progress of Rowing at Cambridge, by a Member of the C.U.B.C. [Signed J.F.B.]. - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1852 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. THE COLLEGE EIGHT-OARED RACES. "Now bend up every spirit To his full stretch, like greyhounds in the slips Straining upon the start."--Henby V., Act iii. FIRST ERA. The starting-posts for the racing-boats, before the year 1835, were placed about a hundred yards below the present position of the floating-ferry at Chesterton. The boats raced up towards Cambridge, and the winning-post stood just below the place now occupied by "Upper" Cross's shed. The posts for starting by were placed on the Chesterton side, and consequently each boat had to steer right across the river for the corner immediately on starting. It is evident that a very inferior D boat could at once bump a good one under this disadvantage, and consequently a post was placed a little above the Roebuck inn, before which no bump could be made; and it was enacted, that any boat touching the one in front of it before this post, should lose its place. The racing chronicles of those times are very different from those of the present day. In them the names of Boats appear and disappear without any assignable cause. One day three boats take part in the contest, on the next six or eight are enumerated, the new comers often taking precedence of those who appeared the day before. The first College race rowed on the Cam took place on the 26th of February, 1827. Four boats started--"inevmt gravibus certamina remis Quatuor ex omni delecta; classe carina." They were 1. Trinity, ten-oar. 2. Trinity, eight-oar. 3. St. John's, eight-oar. 4. Jesus, six-oar. Fifteen races were rowed that Term, eleven in the May, and six in the October Term. At the end of the year 1827, the following was the order--1. Trinity. 2. St. John's. 3. Trinity (2nd.) 4. Caius. 5. Emmanuel. Order at the end of 1828. 1. St. John's...

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