LIGHT BLUES WIN.
LONDON. March 28. Cambridge won the University boat race. The Oxford crew, were quicker away, but Cambridge came level at the end of the first half-mile, and steadily drew away. They were four lengths ahead .at Barnes' Bridge. They shook off Oxford's desperate final effort, and won by four lengths.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) The last University boat race took place in 1914, when Cambridge won by _i lengths. Oxford had previously been the winners for five years in succession.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 76, 29 March 1920, Page 5
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