Henley. College match.
| Queen’s. | Lady Margaret (St. John’s). | ||
| 1. | Lee, Stanlake. | 1. | Shadwell, Alfred H. |
| 2. | Glazbrook, Robert. | 2. | Colquhoun, Patrick. |
| 3. | Welsh, Jos. | 3. | Wood, H. O. |
| 4. | Robinson, John. | 4. | Antrobus, Edmund. |
| 5. | Meyrick, Jos. | 5. | Budd, R. H. |
| 6. | Todd, Jos. | 6. | Fane, W. D. |
| 7. | Eversley, John. | 7. | Fletcher, Ralph. |
| Penny, Chas. J. (stroke). | Hurt, Robert (stroke). | ||
| Berkeley, Geo. T. (cox.). | Jackson, Curtis (cox.). | ||
The names of the Queen’s and St. John’s crews are here given, instead of recording them in the lists of University oars, for this was not strictly a University race, though in those days it had almost as much prestige as one.
In 1839 the third University match was rowed, and Henley Regatta was founded. At the Universities, about this date, various prizes were established, all of which gave a stimulus to oarsmanship.
Pair-oar races were established at Oxford in 1839. They were rowed with coxswains until 1847. At Cambridge similar pairs were founded in 1844, and were rowed from the first without coxswains. The obsolete rudder of the Oxford pairs is now held by the coxswain of the head eight. The Colquhoun Sculls had been founded at Cambridge in 1837. ‘University Sculls’ were instituted at Oxford in 1841. Four-oar races, each crew to be from one college, were founded at Oxford in 1840, and at Cambridge in 1849. Thus, by the latter year, each U.B.C. had its set of contests for all classes of craft—eights, fours, pairs, and sculls. Lists of the winners of these various honours from year to year will be found [elsewhere] in this volume.
TOWING GUARD BOATS UP HENLEY REACH.
Aquatics may be said to have reached full swing with the completion of these institutions at the Universities. Matches between the Universities were propounded annually by one or other club from 1839, but time and place could not always be agreed upon, nor could ‘dons’ be always persuaded to allow men to row in such races. There was many a hitch in old days, from one cause or another. Since 1850 the U.B.C.’s have annually met each other in some shape or other at Henley, or in a match; since, and including, 1856 matches over the Putney course have been annual. Since 1859 neither University has put on at any regatta.
Various causes tended to stimulate rowing, e.g. regattas and also professional racing, which is dealt with separately under the head of ‘[Professionals].’ A perusal of the [tables of records] of Henley and other regattas will also show how competitions gradually increased in number, and also in the fields which they produced.