The young folk's cyclopædia of games and sports ; (1899)
Champlin, John Denison, 1834-1915, Bostwick, Arthur Elmore, 1860-1942, joint author · New York, H. Holt and company · leaf 604
Thames by six young water-mans apprentices, and consisted ofa red coat with a large silver badgeon the arm. This prize, called Doggetts coat and badge is stillcompeted for by the Thames water-men. In 1775 a rowing-race, calleda regatta (Italian regatd) was heldon the Thames, in imitation of… … Greek Galley. to be formed for pleasure rowing,and about the same time it wastaken up as a sport by the Englishpublic schools and universities.Eton had a crew in 1811, and in1817 beat the watermen in a four-oared race. In 1829 the first racewas rowed between Oxford andCambridge, on the Thames,…
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