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It Gets Verse and Verse: Hargrave, An Aquatic McGonagall
The 1865 Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race (‘one of the most sensational Boat Races ever’) moved the Rev. Alfred Hargrave of Trinity College, Cambridge, to poetry – unfortunately. 27 March 2020 By Tim Koch...
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River Dance
28 March 2020 By Philip Kuepper The river has turned the marsh liquid. Reeds lie sodden copper on the mercury-colored water. Ducks float level with the road. Geese honk. I toy answering them with the...
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The Day That Never Was
Sadly, there will be no River Gods racing today – unlike Boat Race Day 1926 when this cartoon of an apparently very camp Cambridge crew was published. 29 March 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch marks a Boat...
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143 years ago at the Boat Race…
30 March 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Yesterday, when it was not the 2020 Boat Races on the River Thames due to the Coronavirus outbreak, rowing writer Martin Gough published an interesting article on his...
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HTBS and the ‘C’ Word
The ‘C’ in this picture is for Cornell. 31 March 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on how HTBS hopes to assist readers to KBO. The ‘c’ word, coronavirus, is obviously dominating everyone’s thoughts and actions...
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HRR Fashion Seasons Done, Dusted and Now Lost to 2020
1 April 2020 By Thomas E. Weil Tom Weil In this article in the Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series, Tom Weil presents some photos of fashion at Henley Royal Regatta of old. For much of the Western...
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Charon at the Harbor on the Styx
1 April 2020 By Philip Kuepper The sky, today, is the color of phlegm. Awareness of the coronavirus colors my mind. The world is in lock down. Five thousand have died. The church I attend is closed...
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Poet’s Pub
Eric Linklater by Stanley Cursiter, 1933. 2 April 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Here is another article in The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series: HTBS editor Göran R Buckhorn finds rowing in a novel by...
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May Time I
‘A Few Splashes from Henley’, by Fred May from “Tatler” magazine, 7 July 1920. 3 April 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch on some cartoon characters. Remarkably, the caricaturist Fred May worked for the Tatler...
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RIP Eric Verdonk 1959 – 2020
4 April 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Eric Verdonk Olympic bronze medallist in the single sculls Eric Verdonk, of New Zealand, died yesterday morning following a battle with cancer. He was 60 years old. It...
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This Ship of Passage
5 April 2020 By Philip Kuepper I left home to become. Had I stayed, I would have atrophied. I would have been no more than desiccation, breathing in the air of death. I boarded the ship of conscious...
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HRR Fashion Seasons Done, Dusted and Now Lost to 2020
6 April 2020 By Thomas E. Weil In this article, in The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series, Tom Weil presents some photos of fashion at Henley Royal Regatta of old. Tom Weil For much of the Western...
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Clement Attlee: None Smarter
In 1955, stroke Churchill and his Conservative crew hoped to take advantage of infighting in stroke Clement Attlee’s Labour crew. 7 April 2020 By Tim Koch Tim Koch Labours on. On 4 April, the British...
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The Idol of the Hour
“The Idol of the Hour” by Chevalier Fortunino Matania, The Sphere, Saturday, 30 March 1912. 8 April 2020 By Göran R Buckhorn Here The Dry Season Bottom-of-the-Barrel Series continues. HTBS editor Göran...
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John Hall-Craggs, 1931 – 2020: A quiet man who got things done
John Hall-Craggs and Cambridge crewmate AAM Mays-Smith, caricatured in the 1956 Boat Race programme. 9 April 2020 By Tim Koch John Hall-Craggs passed away last week. Here Tim Koch compiles, edits and...
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FISA Cancels More Regattas for 2020
9 April 2020 FISA, World Rowing, is cancelling more regattas for the 2020 season, the organisation writes in a press release. Following the rapid expansion of the COVID-19 global pandemic during the...
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Ronnie and Shades of Blue
Chris Dodd has reported on the Boat Race since 1970. 10 April 2020 By Chris Dodd Chris Dodd revisits some Boat Races. ‘The motor launch Enchantress left Mortlake for Putney on Saturday bearing as...
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Carrying Doggedly On…
Andrew Cotter, left, hosting the 2019 Boat Race weigh-in. Also pictured are the coxes for the women’s race, Eleanor Shearer for Oxford and Hugh Spaughton for Cambridge. 11 April 2020 By Tim Koch Tim...
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Going Viral
12 April 2020 By Philip Kuepper The earth is become a ship cruising through space, which the corona virus is ravaging, Nature mutating one of its strands, deadly to existence. Even to breathe is become...
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Winners in World Rowing’s First Fantasy Cup
In the first World Rowing Fantasy Cup, the Danes Mads Rasmussen and Rasmus Quist wins the men’s lightweight double sculls. 12 April 2020 In an announcement from this morning, FISA, World Rowing, writes...
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