SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



and 1 88 1, and in the Leander Eight which won 

 the Grand at Henley in 1880. He was secre- 

 tary of the O.U.B.C. in 1881.* 



In 1 88 1 two old Durham boys, A. M. 

 Hutchinson and C. W. Moore, were in the 

 Cambridge crew. Hutchinson had been in the 

 school four of 1879. Moore, though he rowed 

 at Durham, never reached the crew. Hutchin- 

 son was secretary of the C.U.B.C. in 1882, when 

 he again rowed. Moore rowed again in 1882, 

 1883, and 1884, and was president of the 

 C.U.B.C. in his last year. Hutchinson was 

 ifterwards captain of the Thames Rowing Club 

 and won the Grand and many other races at 

 Henley. 



It will be seen, therefore, that in three decades 

 Durham Regatta trained up a line of oarsmen 

 who carried the fame of north-country rowing 

 to the south. Nor does a list of Blues exhaust 

 the record of the debt which the rowing world 

 owes to Durham and its regatta. Besides those 

 who in after days won the coveted blue cap there 

 were many others who did good service in college 

 crews at Oxford and Cambridge and who only 

 failed to attain the highest honours. 



Since 1884 only two Durham trained men 

 have rowed in the University boat race. These 

 were G. C. Kerr, who rowed in the School 

 crews of 1888, 1889, 1890 and in the Cam- 

 bridge Eights of 1892 and 1893, and C. T. 

 Fogg-Elliot, who rowed in the School crews of 

 1887 and 1888 and in the Cambridge Eights 

 of 1 89 1 and three following years. Both these 

 men were presidents of the C.U.B.C ; Kerr 

 in 1893 and Fogg-Elliot in 1894. But during 

 this period Durham School has sent to the 

 Universities of Oxford and Cambridge three 

 other men of quite first-rate class. The first 

 of these was W. A. King, who was in the 

 School crews in three seasons and who was 

 chosen as 7 in the Oxford crew of 1886. Ill- 

 health caused his retirement from the boat about 

 three weeks before the race. The second was 

 J. W. Fogg-Elliot, who rowed in the School 

 crew of 1885, and was reserve man for the Cam- 

 bridge Eight in 1888. He rowed in 1888 for a 

 Thames crew which won the Grand at Henley. 

 The third was H. Graham, who rowed in the 

 School crew from 1892 to 1894, and was reserve 

 man for the Oxford Eight in 1896, and rowed at 

 Henley for Leander. His rowing career at 

 Oxford was damaged by a serious, and almost 

 fatal, illness in his first term. So it will be seen 

 that the break in the chain of Durham oarsmen is 

 more apparent than real. We should also mention 



' Special reference must be made to Mr. Poole's 

 services to Durham rowing. As a schoolboy he 

 stroked a winning crew at Durham Regatta as far 

 back as 1873, and for more than twenty years has 

 been practically responsible for the many good oars- 

 men turned out during that time from his old 

 school. ED. 



the name of Malcolm Buchannan, who rowed in 

 the School crews of 1896 and 1897 and who 

 afterwards went to Durham University. Had 

 he gone to Oxford or Cambridge he would 

 almost certainly have added another name to 

 the list of Durham blues. Contemporary with 

 Buchannan was S. Sutherland, who rowed in 

 the School crews of 1895 and 1896, and was 

 in the trials soon after going up to Cambridge. 

 He would have had a great chance of winning 

 his blue. ' Dis aliter visum.' He went on a 

 voyage to Iceland in the long vacation of 1897 ; 

 the ship was lost and has never since been 

 heard of. 



Such are the men whom Durham and 

 Durham Regatta have trained. It is an honour 

 list which in itself would go far to establish the 

 claim of Durham Regatta to be considered as 

 one of the most important aquatic events in the 

 year. But it would be easy to make an equally 

 long list of oarsmen who have done all their 

 rowing in the north, but who, had fortune taken 

 them to other scenes, would have made their 

 mark in any company. Most of the well- 

 known north-country clubs have had, at one 

 time or another, men who were first-rate oars- 

 men. In the early days of the Durham A.R.C. 

 W. Brignall, C. Rowlandson, and P. Forster 

 were men who did yeoman service. Later on 

 the same club had a really first-rate man in 

 C. E. Barnes. Again, they found a race of 

 high-class oarsmen in S. F. Prest, A. Ward, 

 L. Ward, all of whom received their early 

 training at Durham School, and would have 

 been welcomed in the strongest eights on the 

 Thames or the Isis or the Cam. In the eighties 

 and early nineties the Durham A.R.C. was 

 fortunate in having, in E. A. White, a stroke 

 who was consistently successful, with Rickerby 

 and E. Bulman and F. Bulman to do the heavy 

 work in the middle of the boat. If at the 

 present time there is no single oarsman in the 

 Durham A.R.C. who stands out as prominently 

 as some of those whom we have mentioned, still 

 there is a quantity of young and improving 

 material. 



If we turn to other clubs whose colours are 

 well known at Durham Regatta, we can point 

 to such first-rate men as J. Wallace and W. J. F. 

 Ayton of the Tyne Club, as L. James and L. 

 Armstrong of the same club at an earlier date, 

 as the members of the victorious Tyne crew of 

 1903, S. H. Lawson, R. W. Glass, H. Molzer, 

 F. H. Edwards. Glass and Edwards were 

 also in the winning crew of 1904, when they 

 had as colleagues M. M. Snowball and F. S. 

 Dyke. 



It is true that these men are not, strictly 

 speaking, Durham oars, but Durham Regatta 

 has been the scene of their races, and Durham 

 Regatta is the central event in the north-country 

 oarsman's year. F. Mason of the Newcastle 



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