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NATURALLY, Jak and I do not wish to make too

much of this thing, but we feel the public are entitled to the facts about the Boat Race, even at the expense of the Anglo-American alliance. After all, truth, like a rose, has thorns.

And the truth is that in the last Boat Race an Oxford man from America has sought to protect his hindquarters with a piece of sponge rubber while other members of the crew, not to mention his Cambridge competitors, were risking blisters on their bottoms in the true tradition of the sport.

We shall say no more. Having Inid bare the facts, we can only

hope that Townsend Smith Swayze, here from Harvard said New Jersey to read English at Wadham end, row No. 3 for Oxford, will realise that his gamesmanship hos not passed unnoticed.

Excuses

Officialdom will be quick to make the inevitable excuses. You will be told the Oxford boat this year

fitter .with was 14-inch slides (scais) instead of the usual 12-inch, und that the

with long-legged Swayze,

his stockinged feet Armly wedged into feather clogs, Two: lo turn to sponge rubber to ease the strain. A likely tule.

Then there is the mysterious business of the violete, Did you know that an anonymous donor has for years been sending violets every morning to the Oxford crow and its coach,

A petal for

with never

Cam-. bridge?

Mark my words, some sinister induence is at work.

Of course, the whole affair will probably be glossed over, Just us they have lightly dismissed the fact that Oxford this year were rowing with newfangled cars shaped like shovels.

But they cannot fool Jak and me. We spoiled (hese insidious Innovations the

moment

QA,

JAK

and

GEORGE

slander and the Boat Race súr- crew at full pelt is not much vived, just as it has subsequently more than 12 m.p.h. and that survived sinkinge, a, suicide, an any loose tulic of "practice spins" ofer of purchase from America's is able to provoke biting re Tex Rickard, and the vagaries of marks about Dalsy Bell and her a judge who got drunk on 'gin. bicycle.

But that was a long Ume ago. Similarly, would-be nautical Nowadays, all the participants references to "port" and "star- ore comparatively abstemious- board," instead of to bow-sido cold sober at and stroke-side, are indicative starting stone the Star and Garter pausing not of not having been born with an your mouth. Damn! at the Crab Tree, the Rutland, our in the Doves, the White Hart, or Docs one talk of dogs at the The Stip, and demanding meet, or of rifles at the shoot? nothing more potent than barley water (they told us on arrival at Mortlake brewery some 20 minutes later.

All this, and much besities, Jack and I heard that ne morning before the race at the

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sought to sport with Amaryllis simply dressed in Raffy white bar of a rowing club

in the slade ni Pulncy recently annels,

Amaryllis, of course, being

the Canibeldzo launch.

A decorous morning, let me say. Just Oxford and Cambridge going about their normal busi- ness of getting ready for the Boat Race. Nothing ostentatious. Nothing loud. Nolling to denote that the Cambridge coach, Dr Raymond Owen, was not an ordinary member of the public.

Allens may fount their flam- Loyant plumage, but Dr Owen.

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brown leather jerkin members have long since for- trimmed with sheepskin. two taken the nourishing qualities stopwatches, and schoolboy cap of barley water,

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morning, urging and scarf in Leander's rosy pink, was hardly noticeable among the An.aryllis against wintry winds rough working men of the tide- and an adverse tide, we found way.

the session both warming and informative.

To be fair, however, I have to admit that the original Boat We learned, for instance, that Race at Henley back in 1829, the race does not start at Putney was rather a fancy-pants occa- Eridge. Operations begla from slou, with Cambridge all dolled slaked skiffs moored 400 feet up Up in pink sashes and Oxford river from the bridge-opposite sporting black straw hats, blue an ancient stone marked U.B.R. canvas and the cafe where they caught striped Jerseys, und Trousers. But what happened? Christie the murderer. Proper mess-Up,

Two grizzled watermen, Tom Phelps and Fred Cobb Jnr. shiver in these skiffs for an hour betere the start, when one of their considerable functions is to relieve the crews of sweaters and and other haberdashery hand same to Messrs Alf Dwinn Some say Cambridge tried to and Albert Andrews, force Oxford oul into the stream; others declare that Oxford chose

Barley water

Soon after the start the lads got a bit excited and a, ahem, foul occurred. sir.

on unsporting moment to make Loose talk

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and Alf boat with them, of course, boatmen respectively to Oxford Anyway, they had to start and Cambridge, make a bee-line again. Oxford won easily; two for Mortlake in buses in order umpires and a referee falled to that victors and vanquished may agree as to whether the winners retrieve their woollles when the fook 11 minutes or 14 minutes: war is over. and some rotter reported that the crews had been doing a little betting on the side,

crews We learned that the

not technically speaking. are true-Blues until after the race. now that the A considered letter to The We also know Times quickly

squashed this maximum speed of a Boat Hace

And never, never, ask about apoplexy and rules. It causes costs another round.

The Boat Race, you will be part of a informed, is not baily regatta, but private match between the chaps, con- ditions for which are agreed between the two presidents and conilded only to the umpire.

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There is algo a judge a sober old Blue who, moored at Mort- lake, announces the result. They like him to be sober because, as mentioned above, one of his pre- decessors' gol to the Eln before the crews got to the brewery.

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more we For an mopped up Boat Race lore. Boot Race tradition, and anything else that, was going.

or

Jak said may the better team win. I said I bet I knew why that Yank at Oxford wanted We were then sponze rubber: asked to leave.

But Oxford won anteay.

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