ROWING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 30 March 1925, Page 5

ROWING.

CAMBRIDGE BEATS OXFORD.

LONDON, Saturday. Cambridge won the boat race.

- Oxford gave up opposite Dover Booth where the boats became waterlogged. Cambridge paddled past the post, Oxford having returned to headquarters in a motor launch.^ Cambridge completed the course in 2lmin oOsee. Experts agree that the contest was one of the most remarkable in the history of the race. Thousands of spectators did not even get a glimpse of tlie Oxford boat.

Oxford’s boat practically became a tinned for some time after they realsubmarine, but the crew doggedly conised their position was hopeless. The crowd on the bank approaching the post did not know what to make of the extraordinary spectacle of Cambridge rowing a solitary race pursued by the umpire’s launch. Guy Nieltalls, writing in the Sunday Times, says unfortunately the umpire, decided against the idea of starting both boats under the Middlesex shore. This gave such an advantage to the boat with the Middlesex shore tliafctlie race virtually was over before it started. Cambridge went straight into calm water and Oxford into water in which it was impossible for any boat to live. Nicknlls expresses the opinion that when the umpire saw the impossibility of Oxford ever covering the distance, or even half the distance, and when he knew the race would not bo fair the test of oarsmanship should' have been called off. The Universities should get together and rewrite the rules before a similar catastrophe occurs.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.