VARSITY BOAT RACE
WIN FOB, CAMBRIDGE. Press Association—% 'rsTegripb—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, March 27. Cambridge won the 'Varsity Ibc-at race. Oxford were the quicker awav but Cambridge got level at" the end of"half a mile, and steadily drew away. Thev were four lengths ahead at Barnes's Bridge. They shook off Oxford's desperate final effort and won by four lengths. [Oxford have now won gg times and Cambridge 32, and there was a dead heat in 1877. r £h-3 last race wss rowed in 1914, when Cambridge won by four" and a-half lengths. Prior to that Oxford had a sequence of five wins.]
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Evening Star, Issue 17313, 29 March 1920, Page 4
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105VARSITY BOAT RACE Evening Star, Issue 17313, 29 March 1920, Page 4
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