UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20171, 25 February 1931, Page 16

UNIVERSITY BOAT RACE.

CREWS IN TRAINING. (noil OTTB OW* CORBXSPOKDBHT.y LONDON, January 15. Training has now begun for the annual boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities. This year it -would seem that New Zealand is to be represented in the Oxford crew. The following are the crew* now in training. CAMBRIDGE. st. lb. D. Haig Thomas (Eton and Lady Margaret) (bow) . • HlO 2. L. Luxton (Melbourne, . Australia, and Pembroke) .. . . 12 0 3. D. St. J. Gogarty (Downside and Pembroke) •• •• 12 7 4. "W. A. Prideaux (Eton and Third Trinity) - • • . . 12 5 5.- C. J. S. Sergei (Monkton Combe and Clare) .. .. 12 6 6. G. Gray (Bolton and Queen's) .. 13 3 7. R. H. H. Symonds (Bedford and Lady Margaret) • ■ 13 1 H. R. N. Rickett (Eton and Third Trinity) (stroke) %. 12 7 J. M. Ranking (Cheltenham and Pembroke) (cox) .. 7 0 5 OXFORD. W. D. C. Erskine Crum (Eton and Christ Church) (bow) .. 11 6 2. M. G. Powell (Cheltenham and Trinity) • • .. 12 1 3. "W. L. Garstang (Oundle and Trinity) .. .. 1110 4. J. F. F. Platts Mills (New • Zealand and Balliol) 13 3 5. R. A. J. Poole (Eton and Brasenose) •. 13 4 6. G. M. L. Smith (Winchester and Brasenose) . . 12 4 7. M. J. Waterhouse (Eton and Balliol) ' .. . . 12 0 (j. JT. Martineau (Harrow and University) (stroke) .. 11 3 J, li. Lutwyche (Radley and Magdalen) (cox) .. .. 8 71 Mr Platts Mills was at The Terra«e School, Karori, and Ocean Bay School, Marlborough, after which he entered Nelson College. He matriculated in 1921, and in 1923 headed the credit list of the University Entrance Scholarship; and in 1924 he was seventh in the Junior University Scholarship '• List. During his University career at Wellington he was a notable figure in several branches of sport, and especially distinguished himself as a first-class oarsman of the Star Boating Club. He was elected the New Zealand Rhodes Scholar for 1928, along with Mr C. A. Sharp, and he has since been studying at Balliol College, .Oxford. 'He hav recently been successful in winning a Latw scholarship for three yeara in London.