. Old Boston boys and the games they played . .v,:S;&i«4,^-t%,lE:f-\KV.^3f:?. vF^p <M H^. .. a c cc ^ ^^i CHAPTER VI IN the late fifties Boston could boastof having some of the best oarsmenin the country, amateurs though theymight be. As a single sculler, BobClark (lately chairman of the BostonPolice Board) was unapproachable. UponJune 22, 1859, in his shell LEsperance,he made the time of over a two-milecourse, one mile out and return, againstTom Doyle and Eben Harrington; theformer finishing in ^^ and the latterin This time of Clarks held therecord for sixteen years! He l
. Old Boston boys and the games they played . .v,:S;&i«4,^-t%,lE:f-\KV.^3f:?. vF^p <M H^. .. a c cc ^ ^^i CHAPTER VI IN the late fifties Boston could boastof having some of the best oarsmenin the country, amateurs though theymight be. As a single sculler, BobClark (lately chairman of the BostonPolice Board) was unapproachable. UponJune 22, 1859, in his shell LEsperance,he made the time of over a two-milecourse, one mile out and return, againstTom Doyle and Eben Harrington; theformer finishing in ^^ and the latterin This time of Clarks held therecord for sixteen years! He literallyplayed with all comers. In one of hisraces he came in so far ahead of his op-ponents that the spectators would notbelieve that he had turned the stake- 56 OLD BOSTON BOYS boat, until all doubts were set at restby the other participants in the race andby the judge who was stationed at thatpoint. The old Volant crew was also well-nighinvincible, and was made up of such metalas Robert H. Stevenson and his brotherThomas (afterwards that magnificent sol-dier, Brigadier-General Thomas
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