Oxford set to equal boat race record
NZPA London Oxford University will attempt to equal a 64-year-old record when it 1 meets Cambridge in the annual boat race next Saturday. A win by the Dark Blues would be the fifth in a row, a feat Oxford has not achieved since 1913, but one which rowing correspondents in London see as increasingly likely. Historians of the race have noted that wins tend to run in sequence, but Cambridge has held such strong supremacy that in the last 55 boat races, it has won all but 17 times.
In the latest sequence Oxford has dominated easily. Once Cambridge • sank, and another time Ox- • ford broke the race record. ] As the last week of ; preparations begins, this sort of form may carry it under Mortlake Bridge the winner, after the 6.88 kilometre race down the Thames from Putney. Before the crews went down to Putney for final tune-ups from their home rivers, the upper Thames and the Cam, neither eight : had shown any clear domi- ■ nance.
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