Eights 1840

BUMPS CHART

STANDINGS Start Finish Pos College Pts Pts College 1 Brasenose 14 14 Brasenose 2 Balliol 11 11 University 3 Christ Church 9 9 Wadham 4 Wadham 8 8 Exeter 5 Exeter 6 6 Trinity 6 St John's 5 5 St John's 7 Oriel 4 4 Oriel 8 University 3 3 Balliol 9 Magdalen Hall 3 3 Magdalen Hall 10 Trinity 2 2 Lincoln 11 Queen's 2 2 Christ Church 12 Corpus Christi 2 0 Queen's 13 Lincoln 1 0 Corpus Christi 14 New College 1 0 New College

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg University 1[ 1] 6[ 1] 6.00[ 1] Trinity 1[ 1] 5[ 2] 5.00[ 2] Lincoln 1[ 1] 3[ 3] 3.00[ 3] Wadham 1[ 1] 1[ 4] 1.00[ 4] Exeter 1[ 1] 1[ 4] 1.00[ 4] Brasenose 1[ 1] 0[ 6] 0.00[ 6] St John's 1[ 1] 0[ 6] 0.00[ 6] Oriel 1[ 1] 0[ 6] 0.00[ 6] Magdalen Hall 1[ 1] 0[ 6] 0.00[ 6] Balliol 1[ 1] -6[10] -6.00[10] Christ Church 1[ 1] -8[11] -8.00[11] New College 1[ 1] -985[12] -985.00[12] Corpus Christi 1[ 1] -987[13] -987.00[13] Queen's 1[ 1] -988[14] -988.00[14]

• 9 Days: Tue 2, Thu 4, Sat 6, Mon 8, Wed 10, Fri 12, Mon 15, Wed 17 and Fri 19 June 1840
• First appearance of Lincoln and New College
• Balliol didn't row on days 4,5,6 and restarted bottom on day 7
• Christ Church didn't row for days 4-8, restarted at the bottom on day 9.
• New College didn't row for days 2 and 3, restarted bottom on day 4.
• Notes from Sherwood
  • New rules made for races
  • On the last night Christ Church put on again, and bumped Lincoln, but were disqualified on the ground that they had no umpire and started above their position.
• From the main text of Sherwood (p39)

  In the next year, 1840, new regulations were made for the Eights, to the following effect:-

  The start was to be at 7.45

  Three guns were to be fired, as now, instead of two as arranged the previous year

  The distance between the boats was to be 100 feet

  That there should be a night for each boat entered

  That a boat taking off should go bottom

  That a boat making a bump should immediately draw to one side, so as not to impede the boats behind it

  That the touch of any part, whether it be boat, oars, or rudder, constitute a bump

  That the races terminate at the White Post, to which King's Barge is affixed

  That boats taking off lose their night. (The racing nights this year being thus reduced from thirteen to ten [sic])

  That the last boat start above the piles at Iffley Lock

  That each boat have three umpires, who shall settle disputes, if possible, or refer them to the committee

  Up to this time, whenever a bump occurred, all the boats below at once stopped racing. In consequence of this, as a signal to the lower boats, the bump was acknowledged, not by the coxswain, but by the stroke, who tossed his oar. Thus if a bump occurred early in the race, between the top boats, it put an end to all other racing for the night. This had actually happened on the first night of the previous year, when 'soon after the commencement of the races, Merton bumped Balliol, putting an end to any further interest, as being second boat it precluded all those who were behind from bumping. After the races all boats pulled into King's Barge in fine style, and the alterations in the flags were made amid much cheering'.

• In other news ... [1840]

  Monarch: Victoria

  Prime Minister: William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (Whig)

  May 1

  Britain issues the Penny Black, the world's first postage stamp; it becomes valid for the pre-payment of postage from May 6.

  May 21

  New Zealand is declared a British colony.

  June 7

  On the death of Frederick William III of Prussia, he is succeeded on the throne of the Kingdom of Prussia (which he has ruled for more than 40 years) by his eldest son Frederick William IV.

  June 12–23

  The World Anti-Slavery Convention is organised by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, at Exeter Hall in London, England. Arguments over the exclusion of women from the convention have important ramifications for the movement for women's suffrage in the United States.

Brasenose
B:	H. Tindal
2:	W. H. Harrison
3:	R. G. Walls
4:	E. Royds	11st 13lb
5:	W. E. Buckley
6:	W. Lea	11st 7lb
7:	G. Meynell	11st 11lb
S:	J. J. T. Somers-Cocks	11st 3lb
C:	M. H. S. Champneys

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