VARSITY BOAT RACE

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 6 April 1908, Page 5

VARSITY BOAT RACE

CAMBRIDGE BEATS OXFORD. AN EASY WIN.

[PBE33 ASSOCIATION.] LONDON, April 5. Cambridge wooi the boat race by two and. a-half . lengths. " [ Opcfjt>rdxwp>h ihe> toes and chose the Surrey station. Cambridge immediatdy went half a length ahead, and maintained the lewd throughout, pad.dling home jn-19min. 19sec. '[•Last? year's race was also .annexed by the Cambridge crew, which finished four and a half lengths ahead of Oxford, doing the distance in 20min 26sec. Altogether there hare been 64 races between "the* Universities. Oxford has won 34 and Cambridge 29, one being a dead heat.]