Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-04-11

boat race is done, Oxford runs hei
RACES on a different and traditional
system. Each boat has one hundred
feet: separating 1t from its neighbor
and the object is to bump the
boat IN front and keep away from
the one in the rear.
mere are thirty-siX boats in toy
gers, the larger colleges having two
beats. They row in three divisions.
The races last for six days, so it Is
possible to make six bumps" and
go up SIX places on the river in &
year. Next year the crew takes the
place which this years crew left end
this has been one continuous contest
for one hundred wears.
You should see a r9ce. Each col,
Iege has its mob of supporters there
on the tow path TO rCr with their
boat. The boats take their places
and the scene grows tense as the
.thrce-minute gun is fired, the two.
the one and then The fifteen-second
gun. All oars are set Bang and
off they go. These oarsmen have
trained for six months without
race contest or show and now it is
their chance to show how good they
are. They row with every muscle
and you gradually see gaps closing
in and O, hers widening out. On the
tow path each college CONTINGENT
dressed in track suits follow their
boats yelling showing, pushing
roaring bunch Of excited boys. Then
the coaches revolver fires six blanks
and the crisis has come. The crew
gives a fifteen as hard as they can
go and the two boats bump or tAp
one behind just misses and loses its
chance. They have 70 pick up aagin
Hartford overlapped st. Johns two
feet but they were not close enough
to literally bump. Oh but it was eX-
citing. Reminds me more Of foot
ball snirit than anything I've seen
in Oxford.
It is customary if your college
boat makes the sig bumps during the
six days Zone each day for six days.
for the whole college to jump in the
river and that was what happened
when Corpus Christi had made it,
sixth bump. the whole crowd on the
tow path jumped in and SWAMI
across.
There was one accident between
two of the boats. When two boats
bump, they are supposed to get out
of the way immediately ef those mi
the rear. One boat failed to do that
and the boat behind crashed into ii
full tilt and sunk il.
~, ,41C,4n end ~, orc fond
Of the life at Oxford Really Eng
Iishmen know how to live. They
don't rush through life as we do and
money is not everything for them,
Take a man who graduates from Ok
ford. That has been his ambition.
His end is reached more or less and
if he can settle down somewhere
with a little salary enjoying life, he
is satisfied for he is an Oxford man,
That's enough. Of course in Amer
lea we have just begun when we
finish college.
The queens visit to Oxford re
Gently was very much like that of the
prince of Wales of which | wrote
you a full account and q description
of the queens visit would be very
much of a REPETITION. ! think prob
ably Oxford put on q few more
fancy touches such as carpets, horse
guards, carriages and snow white
horses. ETC.. for the queen but be-
Iieve that down in their hearts, the
Enolish people nave the prince as
their worshipping hero.
The queen looks about fifty-five
rr little more. Her hair is gray
Her face seems rather worn, yet she
carries herself well and makes a very
good appearance with dignity writ
ten all over her. she wore very un.