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CAUGHT IN BACKWASH.

boat race spectators. POLICE BOATS TO RESCUE. A. and N.Z. LONDON. March 28. The crowd of spectators who assembled at Mortlake lo watch the University boat race was so great that the rising tide washed up to the ankles of those in front. Mary of these could not press backwards. Police boats rescued numbers of panicstricken women who were caught in the backwash. The victory of Cambridge is jocularly regarded as one for brown sugar. Each man in the crew received two spoonfuls of this sugar when he embarked, as a tonic. The spurt of the light blues at Chiswick completely unsettled Oxford, whose number five broke badly and afterwards. scarcely .rowed.

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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 11

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CAUGHT IN BACKWASH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 11

CAUGHT IN BACKWASH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19289, 30 March 1926, Page 11

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