The Sun.
London, England, 1863-08-03 00:00:00

SPORTING NOTES,

The Brighton meeting will commence to-morrow. The
Brighton Stakes is the most important event to be decided.
There are only half-a-dozen good horses in the race, viz.,
Umpire, The Knave, Magnum Bonum, Bandage, Black-
down, and Jack o' Hearts. Umpire has the top weight,
but I can see nothing to interfere with his success unless it
be The Knave, and if Mr. Merry makes any demonstration
in his favour I certainly should prefer his chance to any-
thing in rue race. For the Marine Plate, Dolphin or
Cheerful will hold all the others safe. I shall refer to
the remainder of the races to-morrow.

A FRESH MAN.

AQUATICS.

lOGGEFFS COAT AND BADGE.

The bequest of Mr. Tomas Doggett,
of facetious
memory, of a coat and badge fora race
six young watermen just out of their amongst
apprentice-
ship, to which has been added minor arriour tslft
',,,y Sir Williana Jolliffe, and annually presented b
the Fishmongers' Company, is a " stock piece" in 3
the theatre of aquatics. The race was first insti-
tuted in 1715, and consequently lays claim to
veneration. It has always produced first-class
rowing men, and, doubtless, from the stamina neces-
sarily required for victory, will continue to do so ;
but it lacks now, after nearly a century and a half,
a great desideratum. The competitors should wear
colours, particularly as they are unknown, from
their previous obscurity, to the public; and there-
fore the general observer who may watch the race
closely would not be left to conjecture the parti-
cular name of the man who may be most entitled to
praise. The race, as usual, took place on Saturday,
that being the Ist of August, and the distance was
from Swan to Swan, i.e., from London-bridge to
Chelsea.
Thomas Young, Princes-stairs, .Rotherhithe, „ 1
Frederick Robert Russell, Bermondsey 2
John Egalton, Blackwall 3
Edward William Edwards, Tower 4
Henry Prince, Barkside 5
John Edward Mears, Deptford 6

The station, as usual, counted from the north-
ward—the side nearest Fishmongers' Hall on the
Middlesex side of the river—and Prince was first,
Mears second, Edwards third, Russell fourth,

Young fifth, then the favourite, Egalton sixth.
The Surrey side of the river is always accounted
the best. The Bankside man was first at the start,
and was very smart, followed by the Deptford man,
Bermondsey next, then the winner, Edwards of the
Tower, rowing last but one, and Egalton of Black-
well last of all.

'There were a great many changes after this ;

first of all, Prince was deprived of his lead,
then it fell to Egalton and Russell in turn,
and finally Young, rowing his men down, ob-
tained the foremost position at Blackfriars. Pass-
ing under this bridge Egalton, Russell, and Young
were all together, and it was hard to tell who led,
but at length the Rotherhithe man showed clearly
in front ; Edwards, the Tower man, and Russell of
Bermondsey, disputing the second place. While
they were doing this the Blackwall man came up
(having fallen astern again), and very severe was
the race till they had nearly reached Hungerford-
bridge, where Young led by a length, followed by
Russell, Egalton next. From here to Lambeth they
remained very close, although there were no changes,
and, although they had rowed half the distance by
this time, a sheet might have covered them, as the
saying is ; but through Vauxhall-bridge a very per-
ceptible change occurred. Young led here by three
lengths, Russell heading Egalton by about the
same. Edwards, of the Tower, was next, then the
Bankside man, Mears last; and although there was
some good racing after this, their position never
altered, and Young, increasing his lead, wo❑ by
nearly 100 yards, Russell half that distance ahead
of Egalton; the Tower man was fourth, and the
other two some distance astern of him. The wager-
men, although they started after high water, saved
the tide all the way up, and consequently the win-
ning time was very good, being a little over 37
minutes.

LEANDER AND WESTMINSTER BOAT
RACE.

The time•honoured Leander Club, composed of
University and other gentlemen, have for many
years raced with the Westminster scholars in eight-
oared cutters, and this pleasurable annual of 1863
was presented on Saturday.
LEANDER CREW.

st. lb.
Mr J, G. Warner—. 10 0
Mr J. Fisher lO 11

st. lb.
I
IMrE. 0. Berens .. 11 8
Mr A. 0, Lloyd .... 11 2
IMr 11. T. Stewart .. 11 7
Mr H. N. Monek .. 11 5
Sswain), lOst 71b.
ITER CREW.

_
l'‘lr H. F. Wilson.... li 0
Mr B. N. Thorne.... 11, 8

H. Hunt (CO:
WESTXINS'
at. lb. et. lb.
Mr H. Walker 7 6 Mr H. E. Trevor .. 10 5
Mr F. L. Harrison 90MrC. E. Oldman .. 10 7
Mr M. C. Sim
Mr W. W. C. Lane lO 11 i Mr J. P. Nichols 8 10
F. Chapman (coxswain), 6st 51b.
The course was from Putney-bridge to Chiswick
Eyot, and a steamer accompanied, on board which
were many ladies. Mr. Wright was umpire. The
race was started on the top of the tide. The West-
minster had the Middlesex station. The Leander
went away with the lead, but the Westminster ap-
plied themselves hard to their work, and there was
only about half a length between them at the Duke's
Head. Immediately after this the lead was increased
at a moment to a length, and stroke after stroke was
taken up to the cricket ground without any varia-
tion, and so smart was the work in the Westminster
boat that it was thought they would soon take a
lead. They, however, kept too much on the Mid-
dlesex side, and then at the point had to come out,
and fell right into the wake of their opponents, with
a gap of about a length and a half between them.
The rowing of the scholars was hardly in such form
as we have seen; and when it is considered that
there was not one in the boat above 18 years of age,
it will be at once conceded they must have been
very game and very good to have held so excellent
a race with their senior and heavier opponents. Had

they been a little better they might probably, by
their excellent steerage after passing Craven, have
changed the fortune of the day, for they shot the
water by coming under the stern of their opponents
at a better and earlier time than the Leander, and
rowed so exceedingly well with the advantage so
acquired, that, when they arrived at the Soapworks-
bridge, there was scarcely a length between the two
boats. The steering of the Leander here was
bad, and at Hammersmith-bridge there was still
only a length between them, but after that it
soon
got to two or three lengths in favour of the LE/ander,
12min. ousec.
at about which it finished. Time,

SCULLERS' RACE FOR ,Dsu.
There was also another race on Saturday—a
scalier!: match for .£so—between F. liilsby and E.
May, the former a waterman of Old Barge House,
and the latter a landsman. ICilsby won in 21min,
by four clear lengths
40sec., beating his opponent

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CRYSTAL PALACE.--The new station at Syden-
ham.hill, on the London, Chatham, and Dover
Rail-
way, was opened for traffic on Saturday. It is close to the
mouth of the tunnel which runs near to the north end of the
Crystal Palace,
and will be found a great convenience
of
the neighbour-
to
passengers from Brixton, Stockwell7
Many and the
hood of the Elephant and Castle. Queen's
(Westminster) Volunteers, whose fete day it was, availed
themselves of this route. On Wednesday a special perform-
ance wilt be given of all the principal music from Gounod's
~ Faust," sustained the parts being by Madlle, Titiens,
Y' &c.,
Signor Giuglini, Mr. Santley,with full band and
chorus. Half-crown day, Saturday, Aug. I.—Admission
on payment, 2,874 ; ditto by season tickets, 2,365--total
5,239.

MAIL ►STEAMERS DUE FROM AMERICA THIS
WEEK. —The following steamers are due at Liver-
pool this week with the mails from America, via., Jura,
Edinburgh, and Persia. The Jura was to have left Quebec
en the 25th ult., and may therefore be expected at London-
derry to-morrow morning (Tuesday) ; the Edinburgh, with
dates from New York to the 25th, may be looked for at
Queenstown on Wednesday; and the steamer Persia, from
New York on the 29th ult., will no doubt turn up at
Queenstown in the coarse of Friday next. As it is not im-
probable 'the Jura or Edinburgh may call off Cape Race,
we will, should they do so, no doubt have dates from New
York to the 28th ult.
ARCADES AMBO! Looking into Basinghall-
street and seeing the solicitor or counsel for the opposing
creditor bullying a notorious bankrupt, a writer in the Lon-
don Review suggests that the solicitor is the well-known
Mr. Snap, a gentleman with the eyes of a pike, and the
mouth of a pugilist ; and that the member of the upper
branch of the profession is the unknown Mr. Slang, who
looks uncommonly like a potboy who has borrowed his wig
and gown from the Judge and Jury Club.