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By RICHARD BAERLEIN
Colonel Whi.bread, an ordent supporter of racing for 40 years, Is doing a great servico 10 National Hunt racing in apon- Boring the Whitbread Gold Cup, with £0,000 in total prize money, to be run at Sandown on April 27.
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With Oxford University Boat-race crew coaches disappearing at a pace that would seem remarkable even among football managers, then it is time for the closest Investigation.
Though this ammual ordeal by water on the Thames is confined to two crews of academically and athletically inclined young gentlemen from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, it is still very much a public possession.
It engeger the closcut un 43 As I stood shivering on the fiercest partisan attention of banks of the 1sts looking an many citizens who have never | even mere Obylons blue than
shorter ours and the rowing system.
NEW MODEL
This race is generally worth about £2,000 lo the winner. The executive add £200 in all. Perhaps Д reduced admit- tance fee would show 掉到 ap- precintian of the position, or the race course executive could promote a £5,000 hend cap over me and a quarter, la be tun the day unfore Whic Eclipre Stakea, Such
pulled an oar or exercised their any of the honoured oarsmen, a rage at that time of the year has very prospect of
minds 01 either of these Mr Peter Gladstone, a member universities,
I'm a Carmegle man too. As I proving real suCCESS,
of the Oxford crew of 1950-52, swood in
down the Oxford
the half-timbered was haring up and all khaki-muddied banks
crow boathouse with bicycle howling the crew into and watched
s dusly, cobwebbed celling action.
splendid young athletes being bullied about by heartless, Jockey- rd coxes I looked at the date of the building-1881.
Sponsored races of the value offered by Colmel Whitbread's hem can have considerable
racing in
influence 1021 future
Be
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FIVE-FIGURE PRIZE The Ehor Handicap at York, which is going to be a five-ligure prize this
year, will be sponsored rare, but the execu- tive will be adding half the prize-money, and the
>ponsor the other half.
So they want to know about the row at Oxford which has stirred up the waters of the Isls fur more effectively any rowing eight.
*OXFORD MUST WIN
An Australian at Oxford, 24- year-old Roderick Carnegie, is the cause of all the trouble.
on
The crew needed nu encour-numerous agement. They did a brisk 10 nules work-out with no heed at all of awons who took off with an angay sersech as a power fully pulled oar caught them in their sterna.
If the old boys of that eru had rested any new designs or modern ideas the rowing chaps of today would still be dressed In addition to seeking to en Mr Gladstone is coach for a light bino sashes, pant through in long breeches, wear dark or rich his mind with a closer day and what he sud in 195! their whiskers acquaintance of physics, philo will be readily forgotten, Couchdown bonts that
as they hauled
looked sophy, and political economy. | No. 4, prize-money
Lite somethinebout story. Adrian Stokes
out of
the Grace Caruggle is determined that this 1952 crow, will take over to Darling year Oxford will win the Boat day.
a11
race,
It must be remembered that the matt
purpose behind effort to increase should be to make
Sucing :0 atlinelive that entrance fees to the pubile can be reduced,
Racing has got to be male cheaper and I can see in Colonel Carnegie is the president of Whitbread's Ane offer
In- an
the Oxford crew and that pre vitation to the Sandown Execu-sidency makes him the boss, the live to set an example here.
dictator, the whole government of Oxford rowing.
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He is a mildly spoken, hand- some young husky with an un- disciplined tousle of black hale, But there's nothing mild about his determination to win. He says: "We are out to win and that's all,"
And to win he's prepared to sweep aside some of the tradi tions of Oxford rowing. And that, my dear lovers of the boal race, in the cause of the sackings and strongly worded arguments that have aroused this grey city of the alceping spires.
Make no misiuke, suckings is the right word, although the dignitaries of this learned city prefer to call them "resigna- tions."
Carnegie, perhaps not quite so bluntly, has told the conches and the crew: "Do what I say: or get out,"
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