Word: regatta
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...visit of the Columbia crew to England seems to have awakened quite a strong desire to have in America some such annual regatta of college oarsmen as that at Henley. Captain Bancroft has received the following letter on this subject from the Secretary of the National Association of Amateur Oarsmen...
...having printed, and shall soon mail to the leading colleges, a formal circular announcing the fact that next year the National Association will inaugurate races open to collegians only, and inviting correspondence as to the style of races preferred, the time and place of the Regatta...
...feel sure that our efforts to establish an "American Henley" will meet with general appreciation, and we solicit, and shall doubtless receive, the hearty aid and encouragement of the Harvard University Boat Club. We do not ask for any pecuniary assistance (none of the expenses of the Regatta are to be borne by the colleges), but we desire your advice and approval.... You may not desire to change your eight-oared contest with Yale College, but why should not the proposed races between your crew and Cornell or Columbia be rowed under our auspices, at a regatta open only...
...spring term, so it is impossible to fix upon an earlier date and at the same time allow our men a fortnight's training on the Thames. It seems a great deal to ask of English crews that they should keep in practice four months after their annual regatta; but Oxford ought to consent to this sacrifice of the summer, for she has owed us a race ever since our memorable defeat in '69. That we have decided to row, if possible, the English Universities, is due on the one hand to the graduates, for without their pecuniary...
Atalanta B. C. - At the Metropolitan Regatta, on October 17, Messrs. Downs and Eustis, after winning the pair-oared race, were run over by a tow-boat, their shell smashed, and they were forced to swim for their lives, Downs receiving a severe scalp-wound from the boat's paddle-wheel. They sued for damages, and were awarded $250 each, and $65 for their shell...