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Above: Oxford crew in 1829, the first Oxford v. Cambridge race. Right: Cambridge in action, 1936. FACTS ABOUT THE RACE To-day's race is the 89th to take place. Cam- bridge has won the last 13 in succession, and 47 in all. Oxford has won 40. There has been one dead-heat.
The first race was rowed from Hambleden Lock to Henley in boats like tubs, the rowers two abreast.
In 1912 both boats sank. Once before (1859) Cambridge sank in a gale.
Oxford's last win: 1923. If they repeat it to-day they will prevent Cambridge getting past the 13 times in succession bogey.
W
Once More the BOAT RACE
ITH boat-race en- and it is this they grudge us—is thusiasm at its to produce so many people who zenith, why must so obviously enjoy doing, if not quite the best, then almost the
By Conrad Skinner
one succumb to analysis? best they might-Better for thusiasm be in danger of ignor- enthusiasm has made a large What a moment to choose England not to be represented in ing the psychological law that contribution. The Universities WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1037.
for reciting so obviously the Olympic Games than for it is possible to have too much must set a parallel example of COAL MINES acceptable a creed as: "I English sport to be sacrificed to even of a good thing. Games discipline and proportion, such. the fetish of the first-class world- are games, and play is play, just as tideway and provincial clubs PROBLEM
believe that rowing is a beating performance."
so long as they remain legitimate observe from sheer force of cir game and that it exists for.
In a word, are we out for the and earned reactions from more cumstance. To them rowing can only be what it was meant to be, Although the British Govern-
joie-de-vivre of the present Cam- serious affairs. pleasure and recreation" ment recently registered Its dis-
In these lighter pursuits of the legitimate relaxation after This is not to carp at boat bridge crew (placidly assuming approval of a Labour plan for the reorganisation of the coal race crowds, but on the contrary for the moment that such rowing life the price of perfection may office and shop-hours.
In the old days at the Univer- to welcome them as the salt of cannot lead to quintessential be too costly to subscribe. And,
perfection) or the grim secrecy as an end and object in them- sitics, say sixty years ago, a man industry under public ownership
sanity. and control, it has been dis-
They provide a proper setting and frantic intensity of the over- selves, games become, of course, needed to do no more than read
Little-Go 'both frustrative and ridiculous. for
(the entrance closed that very far-reaching
In this connection, therefore, exam!) in his first two years of plans are under consideration and a wholesome atmosphere in scas "go-getter"?? for dealing with one of Britain's that they establish the occasion
condemns residence, to make afterwards a unhesitatingly .one is major Industrial problems. Low as one grand cosmopolitan pic-
ENGLISH rowing the sacrifice of sections of Uni- sporting shot at a pass degree.
largely safe from the versity term for the sake of Now, however, it is not infre- wages, alarming accidents and nic: their frank enjoyment of chronic unemployment are still the day, given anything like competitive phase of this mad- practice on otherwise inaccessi- quent to find a whole University
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Thomas Selby Egan a century age laid down in his famous manifesto that the object of the not primarily to boatrace was defeat the other crew but "to, exhibit rowing in perfection."
to
or the filching of crew composed of honours men, its mornings from work for the and some of us remember to our
cost what embarrassment pirati cal on-slaughts upon working hours can mean.”
ROWING is now riding Sport kept us sane in time of a high tide of war; in peace it should not turn But we may still in our en- popularity to which University us mad.
on
*. Is British Youth Too Soft?
IN the "Field" one could recently read a setting
nover
this
"To-day," he
PET
bound to colour his outlook and
ter,
(Continued on Page 10.)
PETER
Or
and the owners have come in for considerable criticism for failing feels the risk of the crews slip coaching, which is always ad- river. to place the industry on a better ping off the mark without being vocating and exemplifying the footing. In spite of a subsidy noticed!
principle of helping the other man to beat yourself, in the in- of no less than £23,000,000 granted in 1925 and of the wide
terests of true rowing. powers granted for the control of output and the fixing of minimum wages five years later, very little has been done to cut out the wasteful competition be- tween owners and to evolve a real plan of reorganisation. The Labour proposals are that of the same point by Back Stop: the industry should be organised Orthodox rowing is very hard WHAT is wrong with the youth of into one unit under the name of i
learn and still harder
country? That there is By Colin Collins weaken his inherited British charac to something wrong-radically wrong the Coal Corporation which teach. The Fairbairn style is I am convinced. I base my convic
"If we allow this coddled and would control the production, easy to learn; it has increased ton on personal observation and in-
cushioned apathy to persist and per- selling, marketing and treat the popularity of rowing in Eng-vestigation
proceeded, "our haps to become organic, no Govern ment of coal. The Corporation land and has increased the atan-youth with the youth as I knew it in feel that he is comfortably tied to Socialist, will be able to save us from
have compared modern British adolescent citizen is brought up to ment, National, Conservative, would establish a Coal Market-dard of second- and third-class this country 40 years ago. More the apron strings of a beneficent being dragged into war by more ing Board and a Food Concrews beyond all knowledge. It Important still, I have compared State, and the very generosity of thevirlie peoples, and we stand to lose: sumers' Council, and would also has one crab. It has
British youth with the youth of the flow of 'something for nothing is have power to establish coal produced a
Continent at this present time. And first-class world- these comparisons are not pleasant, treatment plant so that clear beating crew."
In the years when Queen Victoria and definite plans for coal utilisation might be system-A Jesus College crew beat the wealth, and industry, a jingle was As to that, opinion may differ, sat on the Throne and Britain led the world in statecraft, progress, atically worked out for the redoubtable Belgians in 1911 on sometimes sung by young peoples country as a whole. The whole their own water, a feat unat- Two skinny Frenchmen, one Por- DETER was only lent to me, not (way, home, "I'm glad we sold that process from the hewing of coal tained by Leander or other or
tuguese Englishman con llck
nline for keeps.
prayer for Punch and Violet." to the manufacture of petrol is
One Jolly
We both knew it. Why! Mummy "Punch and Violett" I exclaimed, thodox crews оп ours. And
'em all envisaged as
was coming back next summer, and "Who are Punch and Violet?" three. one industry in last year's Cambridge crew did To-day that fingle may sound silly, there would be such rejoicing.
"Oh, Auntlaf I've told you' about which the profits would be equal- rather skittle down the beat vain-glorious, bombastic, jingoistic, So, in justice to both of us, and them. They're the two ponies at: ly distributed. It is also pro- that Europe could offer.
and all the things we so loudly to the friends who trusted me, I was Granny's. I always rode Punch.. .denounce and profess posed to set up à Mines Com-
to despise. careful to give him the love and But I wonder how the mania But let us assume the truth of But it did represent a positive point care he needed without letting him Church knew about them." pensation Commission, under the contention, as, a correspon-bf view. Those who sang it believed get too much my adorable! Just a Sunday, when while we were saying
boy.
The puzzle lasted until the next which compensation to be paid dent does when, drubbing this t
They
had self-confidence, and But he was 80 to coal-owners would be the
they were
were proud of the feet.
real boy at six, and so trustworthy, the Creed I. felt a pull. ""That's "fair value" on the appointed Review," he demands to know that jingle or anything like it. He honour. I knew I could bank on Peter. That's Funch and Violet.
The youth of to-day never sings when he gave me his "hand of them." came in a loud whisper from paragraph in the "Cambridge day, whereas compensation to whether it is the object of row-tos
до self-con@dence, He very him. royalty owners would be a sum ing to produce a world-beating ck one foreign nation, let alone our first walk I took his hand. He
doubts whether he could
very Independent. On WAY equivalent to the amounts paid crew or to spread healthful and three, were the necessity forced upon very quickly withdrew it. "I can to see a friend on the way home On that sam.c Sunday we called or payable to such owners in happy exercise among the him.
hold my own hand now, thank you." and Peter's eyes danced at the sight respect of such rights during greatest possible number
He ought to make his mark in the of the very biggest, rostest apple he the two years ending on the ap- throughout the country. He Something for Nothing world, for, even at that early age, had ever seen.
im, and he pointed day of one year's enjoy deals with both
he puzzled things
The through
My friend gave it to him, our points at ment of such rights, whichever
The demand of the modern youth latest puzzle was caused by a baby
But two little neighbours of ours should be the leas. Royalty
is for his "rights." From the State sister. He had not acen her. She carried it back in triumph. "It is not uncommon," he pro-downwards everybody must do had arrived in India.
always shared all their joys with "I wish they'd let me help them him, and the apple was big! "He owners who had put nothing in ceeds, "to hear American and something for him. That would not titled to the same compensation ly praising English sport for
has its responsibilities.
said as coal-owners. Whether the this very quality. They admit road to rula..
knew something was wrong..
You don't have to, Peter," I zo- plied... "The apple yours, but I plan is workable is a disputable (or perhaps they boast) that In the House of Commons recently. point, but there can be no quess they can without difficulty beat Moines, dealt with this matter. He cloud when he came
But the des
dear little face had lost its think it would be rather like a little
to find
me half pig not to give them some.” tion but that the wages paid to our people in the annual or de- was speaking of our social services, an hour tave been
Quiet, steady, thoughtful walking-- And then a cheerful face was miners are miserably low, in carnial event. Our victory the world and which both Govern-suppose that baby and me have both raised to mine. I knew the decision
which he described as the finest in Auntle. I've been thinking. I
ment and....
Opposition Intended to got to have Mummy: the same, but was made.
thought I could have Daddy, and "It doesn't matter being a Hills ple improve on opportunity offered. But, ho sald, these splendid, costly ser- she could have Our Father which sometimes, does, 117??
What did I say? What would you vices tend to sap that self-reliance art in Heaven which, has mide our race what it Church was-now-to-him, but the have said?
beencast time he went he remarked on the
once.
much
He
Pontlus Pilatel
*
to the mine would not be en- { other overseas visitors' envious. be so bad it he realised that every choose it before they went back," he stopped
Sematising for nothing" is the sure garden and kicked atones. So I applez, Cering. Presently, "Must
view of the dangerous nature of their occupation, graphically illustrated in the Gresford: dis-earnings In British coal mines aster, in which no fewer than have fallen from 3 188, 8d. to 265 lives were lost. From 191994, 106., a wage which la to 1996, the average weekly cash obviously altogether inadequate.
Ralph Rayner, the member for
and then he went out into the give and Beryl soms of this
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