. Old Boston boys and the games they played . y the Harvardmanned by Parkman, Crowninshield, El- 1 See Appendix, p. 220. 6i OLD BOSTON BOYS liott, Erving, Walcott, Ropes, and Gold-smith. In 1857, July 4, the Harvardbeat Fort Hill Boy, Robert Emmet, Sham-rock, Bunker Hill, and Sterling in the single sculls, Bob Clark, in theBlackbird, took things easily and beat TomDoyle and two or three others by severallengths, in Doyle rowed the D. The prizes were awarded by F. Shimmin — he and the twoStevenson brothers being the judges. June 19, 1858, on the Charles Rive
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . y the Harvardmanned by Parkman, Crowninshield, El- 1 See Appendix, p. 220. 6i OLD BOSTON BOYS liott, Erving, Walcott, Ropes, and Gold-smith. In 1857, July 4, the Harvardbeat Fort Hill Boy, Robert Emmet, Sham-rock, Bunker Hill, and Sterling in the single sculls, Bob Clark, in theBlackbird, took things easily and beat TomDoyle and two or three others by severallengths, in Doyle rowed the D. The prizes were awarded by F. Shimmin — he and the twoStevenson brothers being the judges. June 19, 1858, on the Charles River, inthe second annual Beacon Regatta, theHarvards once more beat the Fort HillBoy, their rival of the previous year, in athree-mile race, in , — the latter com-ing in second, two minutes behind them. The Fort Hill Boys crew of longshore-men, being now thoroughly disgruntled bythese repeated defeats by those whom theytermed Beacon Street swells, determinedto arrange a race with them that shouldeffectually show the difference between.
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