Word: putney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week perhaps a million persons lined the Thames from Putney to Mortlake. It was the centenary of the famous struggle between the light blue and the dark. Forty times had impudent Oxford won. Thirty-nine times victory had gone to Cambridge. Once, in 1877, the judges could name no winner, for the crews finished together to the stroke−a dead heat...
Docket number 125 is the Sayre Club (Dolan, Kennedy) versus the AmesGray Club (Putney, Williams). The meeting will be at the Chancery Club with R. H. Field 3L as chief justice...
...Thames is a most messy river at the point (between Putney and Barnes) where it is still customary to hold these annual races. But this day it was calm, at least not torn with tide-rips as it was last year when the Oxford shell water-logged and sank. And one's family could get a halfway decent look at the show this year, for it was held in the morning before the plebs were turned loose from the factories to swarm the banks and rowdy on the bridgeheads...
...craft were speedily disentangled. But Hoover found it impossible to resume rowing until Beresford's boat had cleared out of the way of his oars. Thus did Beresford acquire a lead of over a length. Six min. 48 sec. after leaving Putney Bridge, Beresford won the 1 mile 707 yard race by three lengths...
...Haughton, who like most sorcerers accomplishes his greatest miracles in an atmosphere of secrecy. But a clue to an even more satisfactory reason is furnished by the news that London's riverside flappers had to be dispersed by the "bobbies" when the Oxford oarsmen made their first appearance at Putney. Their demand, it is true, was only for autographs, but even this small favor would have been rather an inconvenient one for an "eight...