Torpids 1838

BUMPS CHART

STANDINGS
	Start		Finish
Pos	College	Pts	Pts	College
1	Exeter	5	5	Worcester
2	Trinity	3	3	Christ Church
3	Worcester	2	2	Exeter
4	Balliol	1	1	Balliol
5	Christ Church	1	0	Trinity

STATISTICS
College	All Crews
[ ]=rank	Crews	Bps	Avg
Christ Church	1[ 1]	3[ 1]	3.00[ 1]
Worcester	1[ 1]	2[ 2]	2.00[ 2]
Balliol	1[ 1]	0[ 3]	0.00[ 3]
Exeter	1[ 1]	-2[ 4]	-2.00[ 4]
Trinity	1[ 1]	-997[ 5]	-997.00[ 5]

Notes

First results of Torpids as a separate event for second boats, run on the spare evenings between the main Eights races, consequently the first appearance in "Torpids" of Balliol, Christ Church. Exeter, Trinity and Worcester, and the first Torpids headship for Worcester.
Dates: Sherwood just lists 'June' above the results.
Notes from Sherwood
- There must have been at least one more day's racing, as Brasenose started above Balliol next year.
Also, in the main text of Sherwood (p.45)
In 1838 it was determined, at a meeting of strokes, that no Torpids should put on with racing boats. This is the first year we have any evidence of their racing separately, three nights being recorded in the Balliol book.
In other news ... [1838]

31 May
Battle of Bossenden Wood: In Kent, self-declared Messiah John N. Thom, calling himself "Sir William Courtenay", and a band of around 35 agricultural labourers are surrounded by soldiers of the 45th Regiment of Foot sent to arrest them following the earlier murder of a policeman. Thom and ten followers, together with an officer and a constable, are killed in what is sometimes described as the last battle on English soil.
4 June
First section of the Great Western Railway, engineered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, opens from London Paddington station to Maidenhead.
10 June
Myall Creek massacre: 28 Indigenous Australians are killed.
18 June
The Newcastle and Carlisle Railway opens, the first line across England.
20 June
Death of King William IV
28 June
The coronation of Queen Victoria takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

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