CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE THAMES
... d The championship of the Thames, the first of the threo c great sporting events of the week, was contested on Monday, v and so extraordinary a boat race was never seen. After the It most gallant struggle on rer rd, from the first to the last, a over a course of nearly four miles and a half, the champion t e of the Thames and Tyne, the hero of nearly half a hundred g i desperate conflicts, the ...