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    TH FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES

    Jun 10, 2021 4 minutes

    owes Week opens on Saturday, the racing being under the flag of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club. This club was founded in 1875, and its association with the first regatta of the week is of such long standing that he must be a very old man who can remember it being otherwise. This is the same thing as saying that it is a long while since Cowes Week was contained in the space of a week. But in rather more recent time the ‘week’ has stretched into the next as well — I mean the inclusion of the Royal Corinthian’s fixture on the Monday succeeding

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