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unfavourable. Till slides came in twenty minutes had only once been beaten, and that was by the Oxford crew of 1857 in prac-

Practising stroke (1).

tice (19 min. 53 see.); and as Mr. T. Egan, at that date editor of aquatics in ‘Bell’s Life,’ then recorded in that journal, the oldest

Practising stroke (2).

waterman could hardly recall such springs as foamed through Putney arches that week, and especially upon that day of trial