ROWING
HEAD OF RIVER TITLE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MELBOURNE, May 17. The Head of the River rowing title was decided to-day,and resulted:— Geelong Grammar School 1 Melbourne Grammar School ... 2 Scotch College 3 Won by two-thirds of a length, with a-quarter of a length between second and third. Time, smin SSsec. The winners took the lead shortly after the start and never looked like being beaten. One hundred thousand people lined the River Yarra, and created pandemonium. The heads of all the colleges condemned the publicity given to the race, and claimed that it was out of all proportion to the ages of the participants.
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Evening Star, Issue 22032, 18 May 1935, Page 9
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