FROST CAUSES BOAT CREWS TO MIGRATE

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 38, 16 February 1929, Page 5

FROST CAUSES BOAT CREWS TO MIGRATE

OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE SEEK NEW WATER

DANGEROUS ICE FLOES

(Received 8.55 a.m.) LONDON, February 15, Among ,the many curious happenings d:uc to the frost, both the Oxford and! Cambridge boat race crews have been compelled to migrate te new water.

The Isis is covered with dangerous ice floes and the Oxford crew therefore has moved to Henley, where a tug cuts a course through the ice to enable the crew to paddle upstream in the morning and downstream in the afternoon. The Cambridge, crew has migrated to Goring-on-Thames. Here the river is frozen in ■ parts so a steel shield has been fitted on the boat to prevent damage from floating ice. The crews will remain at Henley and Goring until they igo to Putney.—Australian Press Assn.

HORSE TRAINING AFFECTED.

(Received 11.15 a.m.)

LONDON, February 15

The icy weather is seriously affecting horse training. Horses entered for the Lincolnshire! Handicap • and the Grand National are likely' to lose their bloom if the weather continues. Some trainers are taking their horses to the seaside for gallops. Australian Press Assn,