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ROWING MATCH.
Astley’s Annual Wherry, given in honour of His Majesty’s Birth-day, was rowed for yesterday by the following free Watermen:--
Names. Residence. Colours.
Charles Gingel. Temple. Scarlet.
Thomas Duffin. Lambeth. Blue.
Daniel Mallet. Cuper’s Bridge. Green.
John Rider. Iron Gate. Yellow.
Alexander Ashley. Iron Gate. Purple.
George Hutchings. Rotherhithe. Crimson.
The parties stated at four o’clock, with the tide, and rowed round boats moored off Vauxhall and Hungerford stairs. Duffin, Mallet, and Ashley, came in first, second, and third, and, by the conditions of the match, all the rest were considered as beaten, and these three started again for a second heat, which determined the prize. Mallet came in first, and was accordingly declared victor. It was the fifteenth wherry given by Mr. Astley. A great deal of foul play took place on the river during the contest; several strange boats having mixed with the candidate for the purpose of assisting their friends. Among these, a press-galley was conspicuous in its efforts to serve Ashley. Some tumult and confusion followed of course, upon the landing of the parties at Stangate.—Pittoon, the famous Jew pugilist, anxious to see the sun, leaped out of a boat upon some plants close to the shore, but he slipped and went down. Three men, who leaped in to save him, narrowly escaped drowning, as he dragged them under the water.—They were, however, all extricated, and brought on shore.
