A FREE SHOW
Costs £1 a Second Every stroke rowed in the Oxford and Cambridge boat race costs £3/3/-. Mr. M. I’. lainnon, president of the Cambridge boat for this year, gave me the detail of boat race expenses, writes a “Sunday Chronicle” reporter. “We get no gate receipts from the race itself,” he said, “and our training is very expensive. “In fact the cost of each race works out at about WOOD for both sides—about three guineas for every stroke rowed by each boat in the race itself. And that is about a guinea a second for Britain’s best free show.” The next race, Mr. Lannon added, will be rowed on March 13, an earlier date than ever before. Six mouths of intensive training will precede the race.
“We have to'fix a date some lime i hand,” be said, “so that the river authorities can get on with the task of arranging a clear river.
“The earlier date for nextt year leaves us three weeks less for training. “But it’s the same for both sides—and I think we’ll have enough time to prepare to beat Oxford once again.”
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 22
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189A FREE SHOW Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 113, 6 February 1937, Page 22
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