GREAT MEN'S BODIES
"In his early days Sir Archibald was a cricketer of considerable renown; and he has maintained his enthusiastic interest in the world of bats and balls. Now he derives his pleasure from the pursuit of the gentle pastime; he has delivered the sentence of death upon many a salmon in the rivers of Scotland."
But they have left out part of the story. The record of the 'Varsity races will tell it, and it is good reading here:
"April 4, 1857, over the four-mile three-furlong course, from Putney to Mortlake, A. L. Smith, of First Trinity College, rowed No. 4 in the Cambridge eight in the 'Varsity race, and lost. March 27, 1858, he rowed No. 2 in the Cambridge eight in the 'Varsity race over the same course, and won. April 5, 1859, he rowed No. 3 in the Cambridge eight in the 'Varsity race, same course, and lost. His racing-weight was 158 lbs."
So the hard worker on the Bench of to-day learned how to work hard forty years ago—on the thwart of his University's pride—the best eight out of the thousands of her athletic sons."
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