Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Greater London, Vol. 2: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places
The Crowds of Spectators brought together to witness the Race - The Blue Fever - Interest to Londoners occasioned by'the University boat-race - Scenes of the Road from London on the boat-race Day - Popularity of the boat'race among the Ladies of England Scenes on the River - The press-boat and the Umpire's Steamer - By Rail to the Scene of the Race - Putney and Mortlake on Boat Race Day - Description of the Race - Pat History of Rowing as an old English Amusement - The Race for. Doggett's Coat and Badge - A London Regatta - The First Students' Race upon the Thames - The Earliest Race between the Universities of Oxford and cambridge-accounts of subsequent Races - Table showing the Results of the Race from its Institution.
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