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INTEREST IN BOAT RACE.

GREAT CROWD ON BANKS

LONDON, March 28. The crowd watching the boat race between Oxford and Cambridge at Mortlaka was so great that the rising tide washed the ankles of many who were unable to press backwards. The police boats rescued numbers of panic-stricken women caught in the backwash. The victory is jocularly regarded as one for brown sugar. Each Cantab received two spoonsful when embarking as atonic. Their spurt at Chiswick completely unsettled Oxford, whose No 5 cracked up badly, and thereafter scarcely rowed. —A. and N.Z. cable.

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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 11

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INTEREST IN BOAT RACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 11

INTEREST IN BOAT RACE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 102, 30 March 1926, Page 11

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