THE SPORT OF ROWING In 1907, 1908 and 1909, the coxless-pair of Beresford and Vernon had placed second in the Silver Goblets to three different opponents. Page: “Berry and Bean won thirty out of the thirty-six races in which they started, but though they were [three] times finalists at Henley, the Goblets eluded them.”969 In 1911, Jack paired instead with Hamilton Cloutte, an old friend and “London sculler who had competed many times, unsuccessfully, in the Diamonds and Wingfields,”970 and in the semi-finals of the Goblets, they met the stern-pair of the Beresford Four, Logan and Rought. “The Rowing Almanack records that ‘A very fine race ended in a dead heat in record time 8m 8s. Afterwards, Cloutte and Rought tossed to settle the result of the dead heat, Beresford and Cloutte being the winners.’”971 That course record they set was not broken for another forty-one years! The two crews didn’t rerow the dead heat because everyone but Cloutte still had to jump into their coxless-four for a Stewards’ Cup heat. Beresford/Cloutte won the Goblets final the next day in an anticlimax, though they still equaled the former course record of 8:15, set in 1887 by C.T. Barclay and S.D. Muttlebury. The Beresford Four also won the Stewards’ Cup that year. Page: “Berry, at 43 the oldest man competing in the regatta, was also the only man to win two finals.”972 The next year, Logan and Rought returned the favor, putting out Beresford and 1912 Olympic Games, Stockholm At the 1912 Stockholm Olympics there were three rowing events scheduled, the eights, singles and coxed-fours, so Beresford, Vernon, Rought and Logan added coxswain Geoffrey Carr and won the right to represent Great Britain in a twenty- year-old shell.974 In Stockholm against eleven crews from nine nations over a two-lane course, their Thames R.C. Coxed-Four made it through to the final against Ruderverein Ludwigshafen of Germany. 969 Page, p. 48 970 Page, p. 49 971 www.thamesrc.demon.co.uk 972 Page, p. 51 973 Dodd, Henley, p. 117 974 Page, p. 51 Cloutte on their way to the 1912 Goblets title.973 The 1912 Olympics IOC 258
