SCULLING.
BOAT-RACE HAPPENING. LONDON, March 29,
The crowd watching the boat race at 1 Mortlake was so great that the tide washed the ankles of many unable to press backwards. 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 spoonfuls when embarking as a tonic. Their spurt at Chiswick completely unsettled Oxford, whose number five cracked badly and thereafter scarcely rowed.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1926, Page 3
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77SCULLING. Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1926, Page 3
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