. The encyclopaedia of sport. SPORT [< lAVING Queens College, Oxford, rowed against and beatSt. Johns College, Cambridge ; but March 26th,1839, s the first we hear of the definite foundingof a rowing regatta. At first there were onlythe two challenge cups above alluded to to becompeted for; in 1840 the District Cup forfour-oars was added, but withdrawn in 1848 ; in1841, the Stewards Cup, for four-oars; in 1844,the Diamonds, for scullers; in 1845, thePairs; in 1847, the Wyfold Cup; in 1847, theVisitors Cup; in 1S68, the Thames Cup. In tests give rise to, do really promote the goodunderstandi
. The encyclopaedia of sport. SPORT [< lAVING Queens College, Oxford, rowed against and beatSt. Johns College, Cambridge ; but March 26th,1839, s the first we hear of the definite foundingof a rowing regatta. At first there were onlythe two challenge cups above alluded to to becompeted for; in 1840 the District Cup forfour-oars was added, but withdrawn in 1848 ; in1841, the Stewards Cup, for four-oars; in 1844,the Diamonds, for scullers; in 1845, thePairs; in 1847, the Wyfold Cup; in 1847, theVisitors Cup; in 1S68, the Thames Cup. In tests give rise to, do really promote the goodunderstanding which they are supposed to en-courage, or whether in the result they do notproduce the exactly opposite effect. In amateurraces, where the conditions vary so much indifferent countries, it is not easy to satisfy ailthat the regulations are fair to all. Henley Regatta has grown and prospered,and has been the precursor, and to a greatextent the model, of innumerable other regattaswhich have equally grown and prospered ; its. After the Grand Challenge. 1872, the Regatta assumed an Internationalaspect, as the first foreign entry was then madein the person of E. Smith, of the New YorkAtlanta Boat Club, who competed for theDiamond Sculls, and his example was followedin 1878 by the Sho-wae-cae-mettes crew and theColumbia College crew, besides two Americanscullers, and since that date foreign entries havebeen numerous. Although Henley is ready toextend a welcome to all, it may be doubtedwhether the International character which it isnow assuming is a benefit to it, and whether theintense feeling which these International con- classic course has been the scene of many a hardfought fight, but it is doubtful whether excite-ment has ever reached the pitch it rose to in1843, when the only sufficient outlet the youthof Oxford of the day could find to express theirexultation at the victory of-their seven-oaredboat was by dropping the Henley turnpike gateover the old Henley bridge. - Indeed
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