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Time – Tourist Trophy

Time

The regularity with which all the members of the crew coincide with stroke in the dinning of their oars in the water.

Time Race

A race in which the competitors start at such a distance from another as to make any interference improbable, and row to winning posts placed an exactly similar distance apart.

Torpids

The eight-oared races held at Oxford in February between members of the various colleges, rowed on fixed seats in clinkerbuilt boats. Men who have rowed in a college first eight in the previous year are not eligible.

Tossing Oars

- The salutation formerly delivered to the head boat of the river at Oxford and Cambridge, in delivering which all the members of the crew stood up in the boat and lifted their oars straight into the air.

Tag

Silver twist and yellow floss.

Tail

A topping, with strands of pintail.

Body. Orange seal's fur, shading gradually to fiery brown. Ribs.-Gold twist and silver tinsel. Hackle. - Black heron half way down the body. Shoulder hackle. -

The Royal Eastern

which is stationed on the Firth of Forth, was founded in 1836. The commodore is the Duke of Buccleuch, and the number of members on the books in 1909 was 96, who owned between them some 30 yachts.

The Royal Welsh Yacht Club

which is situated at Carnarvon, dates from 1847, and has 165 members and a fleet of 67 yachts.

The Royal Temple Yacht Club was founded in 1856 at the Ship Tavern, Essex Street, in the

Targo Bologna

i. 159 Florio, i. 154, 157-160

Thousand Miles Trial

i. 133, 134

Tour de France

i. 133

Tourist Trophy

i. 150, 151, 152, 158 Track racing (U.S.A.), i. 144, 145