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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oxford vs. Cambridge | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oxford vs. Cambridge | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Oxford vs. Cambridge | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

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