Word: wansborough
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...oarsman who had been in training only seven days had to he substituted at bow. Cambridge was not strong. Her eight sturdy rowers pulled strongly, smoothly; but there was in that boat a weakness in which, Oxford thought, Fortune might insert a wedge. That weakness was A. G. Wansborough, stroke. Thrice in the preceding week he had "caught a crab...
Therefore, on the morning of the race, some Oxford undergraduates visited the Cambridge headquarters with a huge papier-mache crab, whose eight legs were shrouded in the billowy breeches that Oxford men consider fashionable. Wansborough laughed. He was confident...
Presently the Cambridge boat came by rowing prettily. Wansborough was smiling. The Oxford crew, spectators learned, had put ashore, water-logged.* Trying to steal a lead on Cambridge at the start, it had dared the wind, the rough water of midstream, been well-nigh swamped...
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