BoatingLongmans, Green and Company, 1888 - 352 pages |
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amateur aquatics Average st Balliol beat beaten blade Boat Club body bows Brasenose Brickwood Bridge iron bump bumping races by-law Camb Cambridge captain Casamajor Chambers Christ Church Christ Church cox Clasper coach Coll College competitor Corpus course coxswain craft crew Edwardes-Moss eight eight-oared Eton Eton College Exeter faults fixed seat fixed-seat foul four four-oar Frank Dadd Grand Challenge Cup hand Hanlan Henley Regatta Hertford Jesus John's Kelley Lady Margaret Leander length Lock London R.C. London Rowing Club Magdalen match Merton mile muscles oarsman oarsmanship Oriel Oxford paddling pair pair-oar Pembroke Plate Playford practice prize professional Putney to Mortlake race recovery river River Thames Rowing Club rowlock Sadler sculler sculling Second Trinity sliding seats steered stern Stewards stretcher style swing Thames Regatta Third Trinity Trin Trinity cox Trinity Hall trireme Tyne University watermen Wingfield Sculls winners writer ΙΟ
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Page 328 - For the purpose of giving jurisdiction under this act, every offence shall be deemed to have been committed, and every cause of complaint to have arisen, either in the place in which the same actually was committed or arose, or in any place in which the offender or person complained against may be.
Page 329 - Act the following words and expressions shall have the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction...
Page 240 - In case of a foul, the umpire shall have the power : (a) To place the boats — except the boat committing the foul, which is disqualified — in the order in which they come in...
Page 327 - Separatists, as the case may be\, having conscientious scruples against subscribing the declaration contained in an act passed in the ninth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, intituled An Act for Repealing so much of several Acts as imposes the Necessity of receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper as a Qualification for certain Offices and Employments...
Page 194 - ... ever taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises of any kind as a means of livelihood, nor have ever been employed in or about boats, or in manual labour; nor be a mechanic, artisan, or labourer.
Page 49 - ... with or against a professional for any prize ; (3) who has ever taught, pursued, or assisted in the practice of athletic exercises of any kind for profit...
Page 240 - ... to order the boats engaged in the race, other than the boat committing the foul, to row over again on the same or another day ; (c) to re-start the qualified boats from the place where the foul was committed.
Page 194 - An amateur oarsman or sculler must be an officer of her Majesty's Army, or Navy, or Civil Service, a member of the Liberal Professions, or of the Universities or Public Schools, or of any established boat or rowing club not containing mechanics or professionals ; and...