RECORDS IN TRIALS
UNIVERSITY EIGHTS OXFORD LIGHTER CREW RACE ON SATURDAY (Special Correspondent.) (10 a.m.) LONDON, March 25. Interest in the Oxford-Cambridge boat race, due to start at 6.15 p.m. next Saturday, has been heightened by both crews establishing course records during their training. In rare conditions of tide flooriwater and weather, Oxford, last year’s winners and the lighter crew, put up the record .time of 17min. 58sec. This clipped lOsec. off the time returned by Cambridge a day or two previously when it covered the course in 18min. 14sec. The previous record established 50 years ago was 18min. 2Tsec. Despite these fast times, neither crew is regarded as classic and forecasts as to which will win are reserved. Cambridge average nearly 51b per man more than Oxford, but it is stated that the crew has not improved lately due t'o sickness.
The Times suggests .that Oxford have every chance of winning in a following wind, but in a slogging match against a head wind they will need every superiority of skill ’they can to make up for their lack of weight.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22289, 26 March 1947, Page 7
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