UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE
“VICTORY FOR BROWN SUGAR.” London. March 28. The crowd watching the University boat race at Mortlake was so great that the rising tide washed the ankles ol manv who were unable to press backwards, rflrd police boats rescued numbers of nanic-stricken women caught in the backwash. The victory is jocularly regarded ns one for brown sugar, each member of the Cambridge crew having received two spoonsful when embarking as a tonic. Their snurt at Chiswick completely Unsettled Oxford, whose No 5 cracked • -ms badly, ejnd thereafter scarcely rsweA.—Aw.-NS. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 157, 30 March 1926, Page 7
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