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Excerpt from A Sporting Pilgrimage: Riding to Hounds, Golf, Rowing, Football, Club and University Athletics; Studies in English Sport, Past and Present
Devon and somerset stag-hounds A kill with the devon and somerset stag-hounds duke OF rutland's gambler AN english beagle the christ church (oxford) beagles AN undergraduate's room AT cambridge AN english football player A college barge putney bridge, starting-point OF the oxford-cambridge boat-race. AN ordinary punt AT oxford - looking UP the isis from folly bridge AT cambridge - looking UP the cam AT the starting-posts OF A bumping race tubbing the original tub A coaching tub A clinker four-oar procession OF eights ON the isis, oxford - saluting the 'varsity the oxford course the cambridge course mr. Lehmann coaching oxford from horseback oxford eight-oared boat - interior view, looking forward, showing positions OF seats and fixed rowlocks oxford university boat-house diagram OF bumping race A bump. Oxford taking out boat racing eights ON the isis, oxford the barrier AT putney bridge course OF oxford-cambridge annual race from putney TO mortlake training quarters OF the oxford crew AT putney the henley course - scene OF henley regatta training quarters OF the cambridge crew AT putney leander rowing club boat-house AT putney - used BY cambridge london rowing club boat-house AT putney - used BY oxford the london, leander, and thames rowing clubs - looking UP the thames rugby union scrimmage the eton wall game A winchester hot dribbling IN the association game. Passing.
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