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... CHAMPION'SHIP OF THE THAMES. The championship of the Thames, the first of the three great sporting events of the week, was contested on Monday, and so extraordinary a boat race was never seen. After the most gallant struggle on record, from the first to the last, over a course of nearly four miles and a half, the champion of the Thames and Tyne, the hero of nearly half a hundred desperate ...