The Badminton Magazine 1896-09: Vol 3 Iss 14 (1896)
Longman, Green & Co · leaf 57
third and fourth boats are apparently bound to foul before they reach the winning post. The second illustration displays, beside a beautiful view of the river, the type of boat that has to be used, and is valuable because no artist ever showed so well an oarsman’s collapse. If the front man rows… … resolutions ’ that embarked upon it. In 1801 the display was so scandalous that four men were brought before the police-court, and only escaped severe punishment by making their humblest i apologies ‘to the public, and also to the wardens and the officers of the Company for the personal insults…
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