The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-04 00:00:00

tST INNINGS.

Martin, b G. Bicknell 5
Byes 9, wide 6

DOGGETT'S COAT AND BADGE.

This race on'F tiday was superior to any that have pre-
ceded it for years past; it was from first to last a most gal-
lant and determined struggle, with a result which leaves it
questionable whether the best man won. The distance was,
as usual, from the Swan at London-bridge to the Swan at
Chelsea, against tide, and the following were the competi-
tors :—Joseph Cobb, Greenwich; Edward Gellett, Green-
wich; George White, Custom-house; Robert W. Thorn-
dyke, Surrey Canal; Matthew Weed, Bankside; William
ii. Pratt, W aterloo-bridge. The men appeared at their sta-
tions in wager wherries, a very humane improvement upon
the old-fashioned principle, at about half- ebb. Pratt had
the inside station, and the others thus—Weed, Gellett,
Cobb, Thorndyke, and then White outside. After two
false starts the men went away beautifully together, and
after a few strokes Gellett took the lead, followed by
Cobb, the others forming a level group, and ploughing
hard through the " nobby" water caused by the steamers
for the third place. The two leading men kept hugging
the shore in the position we have described them,
Cobb evidently reserving himself for a great effort,
until they commenced shooting the water as they neared
Westminster-bridge, where, a fair opportunity presenting
itself by spurting for taking the lead, both men went to
work in the most gallant style to see who should reach the
opposite shore in advance, Gellett had passed through one
of the arches in the heavy tide-way, but his opponent courted
the eddy, and dragged his boat as they neared the point in
advance of his opponent. Gellett was not so soon shook off,
but rowed up to his sculls repeatedly, trying to pass him on
either side, but Cobb's manoeuvring stopped him4Whilst this
was going on with the leading pair, a not less desperate
conflict was taking place for third, fourth, and fifth, amongst
White, Thorndyke, and Pratt. They were beautifully
matched throughout, and it was a matter of considerable
speculation who would get the third prize. At Blackfriars-
bridge White and Thorndyke fouled. White in the shoal
near Westminster went into the second place, but both the
latter had considerable difficulty in shaking off Pratt, who
was said to be so water-logged that, despite his exertions,
it would have been useless to have continued the race. Cobb
rowed right up the reach with Gellett upon his quarter, and
won by his oars' length only, and in two minutes afterwards
the third and fourth men appeared in a precisely similar
posit ion.

THE WESTMINSTER SCULLS.
The race for the Silver Challenge Sculls, presented to the
Westminster scholars, came off on Thursday, and had the
public been acquainted with the fact, we have no doubt, from
the celebrity of these students as rowers, it would have been
most numerously attended. The race was from Vauxhall to
Putney—
Mr. Goodenough
Mr. Green
Messrs. Milman, West, and Rich also started. It was a
most splendid race throughout. They all went away to-
gether, and Green then took the lead, and held it up to near
Battersea-bridge, when the winner came up, and each tried
his utmost; the result of which was, that Goodenough ob-
tained the lead and held it. Milman and Green had a des-
perate and long-continued contest for second place, in which
it was difficult to say who exhibited the most game.

THE BITER BIT.—On Monday morning last, a
well-dressed man went into • jeweller's shop in the west end of the
town, when the place had just been opened by the boy, and pur.
chased a trifling article, for payment of which he tendered at the
time a one-pound note. As the boy had no change at the time, he
(the boy) went into the next shop for it, during which time the pur-
chaser had managed to secrete a box containing jewellery, which
being observed by the boy, the latter immediately challenged him
for it, when the "swell" took to his legs, and effected his escape.
On examining the premises, the master of the shop found that a
small box containing brass penny rings was missing, for which the
pound left in the boy's hand was ample payment. No doubt the
thief was congratulating himself on the richness of his prize. the
brass rings being mistaken by him for the genuine gold.—wasgose
drgus.
FOREIGN POTATOES.—A cargo of potatoes from tilts
Azores or Western Islands, consigned to Messrs Keeling and Hunt,
of Monument-yard, was on Friday publicly exhibited. This is the
first importation which has taken place under the new tariff, the
duty being reduced to 2d. per cwt. The samples showed that the
potatoes from this source are much more mealy than the English
potatoe, and if approved of, they can Le introduced into the:market
about a mouth earlier. . _ _

James Mills was convicted on Monday last at the
Londonderry assizes of robbing Isis uncle, William Mills, of 4b
sovereigns. The prosecutor is a hale man of 100 ycars old, and is
at present living in connubial bliss with his eighth wife.