Eights 1873

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STANDINGS Start Finish Pos College Pts Pts College 1 Pembroke 20 20 Balliol 2 Balliol 17 17 Pembroke 3 Brasenose 15 15 Christ Church 4 Christ Church 12 12 University 5 University 11 11 St John's 6 St John's 9 9 Magdalen 7 New College 8 8 Brasenose 8 Trinity 7 7 Lincoln 9 Magdalen 6 6 Corpus Christi 10 Lincoln 5 5 Wadham 11 Exeter 4 4 Queen's 12 Corpus Christi 4 4 Oriel 13 Magdalen Hall 3 3 New College 14 Wadham 3 3 Worcester 15 Queen's 2 2 Merton 16 Merton 2 2 Trinity 17 Oriel 2 2 Keble 18 Worcester 1 1 Exeter 19 Keble 1 1 St Mary Hall 20 St Mary Hall 1 0 Magdalen Hall

STATISTICS College All Crews [ ]=rank Crews Bps Avg Oriel 1[ 1] 5[ 1] 5.00[ 1] Worcester 1[ 1] 4[ 2] 4.00[ 2] Queen's 1[ 1] 4[ 2] 4.00[ 2] Wadham 1[ 1] 4[ 2] 4.00[ 2] Corpus Christi 1[ 1] 3[ 5] 3.00[ 5] Magdalen 1[ 1] 3[ 5] 3.00[ 5] Lincoln 1[ 1] 2[ 7] 2.00[ 7] Keble 1[ 1] 2[ 7] 2.00[ 7] Merton 1[ 1] 1[ 9] 1.00[ 9] St Mary Hall 1[ 1] 1[ 9] 1.00[ 9] St John's 1[ 1] 1[ 9] 1.00[ 9] University 1[ 1] 1[ 9] 1.00[ 9] Christ Church 1[ 1] 1[ 9] 1.00[ 9] Balliol 1[ 1] 1[ 9] 1.00[ 9] Pembroke 1[ 1] -1[15] -1.00[15] Brasenose 1[ 1] -4[16] -4.00[16] New College 1[ 1] -6[17] -6.00[17] Exeter 1[ 1] -7[18] -7.00[18] Trinity 1[ 1] -8[19] -8.00[19] Magdalen Hall 1[ 1] -986[20] -986.00[20]

• 8 days: Thu 15 – Fri 23 May 1873
• The two overbumps are related to the introduction of sliding seats by some crews.
• Notes from Sherwood
  • Sliding seats used for the first time in Eights
  • Second night: Queen's bumped Magdalen Hall, but were disqualified and lost a place for dropping their bung.
  • Fourth night: Keble put on slides, and, though they lost a man from illness, rebumped St. Mary Hall on the seventh night.
  • Last night: Magdalen, in order to make their bump, had their boat French polished. It went very heavily, and on getting it out of the water they found it covered with oil. The polisher had put it on 'because he thought gentlemen liked their boats to look shiny'.
• From the main text of Sherwood (p42/43)

  1873. Sliding seats were first used in Eights. Unlike other changes in boats they produced a convincing improvement in pace from the first. 'Many and ominous were the rumours among the watermen and old Oxford oars as to the slides that would be broken, and the crabs that would be netted on the first night of the races, and Exeter, with a conservatism worthy of a better cause, determined to row upon fixed seats.' Results — they were bumped by Corpus on the first night, by Wadham on the second, by Queen's over two places the third. On the fourth they had slides fitted, but were bumped by Merton, after which they kept their place until Keble, who had been bumped by St Mary Hall on the first night, took to slides and rebumped them on the seventh, and now caught Exeter on the winning post.

  Worcester had fixed seats for the first three nights, then took to slides, and made a bump over two places.

• In other news ... [1873]

  Monarch: Victoria

  Prime Minister: William Ewart Gladstone (Liberal)

  Tue 20 May

  Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive United States patent#139121 for using copper rivets to strengthen the pockets of denim work pants. Levi Strauss & Co. begin manufacturing the famous Levi's brand of jeans, using fabric from the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company in Manchester, New Hampshire.

  In Chipping Norton, England, rioters attempt to fee the Ascott Martyrs — 16 women sentenced to imprisonment, for attempting to dissuade strikebreakers.

  Fri 23 May

  The Canadian Parliament establishes the North-West Mounted Police (which is renamed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in 1920)

  The Preakness Stakes horse race is run for the first time in Baltimore

Balliol
B:	A. L. Smith	9st 11lb
2:	A. F. Acland-Hood	10st 9lb
3:	R. H. Roe	10st 4lb
4:	H. G. Wedderburn	10st 9lb
5:	A. W. Mulholland	11st 5lb
6:	S. D. Darbishire	11st 11lb
7:	F. E. H. Elliott	10st 2lb
S:	W. Farrer	10st 11lb
C:	R. J. Knowling	7st 13lb

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