. The encyclopaedia of sport. e then jumped into his seatand exchanged boat-hook for oar. As IffleyLock would only hold four boats at a time, thissystem of starting was doomed on any consider-able increase in the number of entries, and in1825, several new eights having put on, anew method was resorted to, the boats takingstations 100 feet apart, the lowest just above theLasher. No further change in, or addition to, this transferred to the summer term, in which theyhave been held ever since. Originally the racesin all three events were rowed level, but theBerkshire side proving much the better,
. The encyclopaedia of sport. e then jumped into his seatand exchanged boat-hook for oar. As IffleyLock would only hold four boats at a time, thissystem of starting was doomed on any consider-able increase in the number of entries, and in1825, several new eights having put on, anew method was resorted to, the boats takingstations 100 feet apart, the lowest just above theLasher. No further change in, or addition to, this transferred to the summer term, in which theyhave been held ever since. Originally the racesin all three events were rowed level, but theBerkshire side proving much the better, andfouls continually taking place, the system waseventually abandoned in 1857 and the presentsystem of time racing substituted. In 1839the first mention is made of Torpid races,which were then rowed a few days afterthe Eights. They were not transferred tothe Lent term till 1852. There is little moreto record as to the history of the variousrowing institutions that exist at Oxford to-day. Their growth has been steady and con-. JUST BEFORE THE EUMP. system was made till 1839 when, at the start, thecoxswain of each crew was made to hold a rope,the other end of which was held or fastened onshore, and the firing of two guns—one prepara-tory and one final—was substituted for thesingle pistol shot which had hitherto been thestarting signal. In 1839 the Oxford University Boat Club wasformed, and two challenge races—the UniversityFours and the University Pairs—were Sculls were added two years later. ThePairs as well as the Fours were originally rowedin the October term, while the race for theSculls took place in the Lent term. In 1852and 1857 respectively, the Sculls and Pairs were tinuous, and the changes and additions madefrom time to time have been chiefly in mattersof detail. The Eights were originally rowed fora more or less indefinite number of nights, theearliest idea being that every boat must haveits night ; that is to say that the evenings onwhich racin
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