The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-04-04
CAMBRIDGE WINS.
The Greatest Race Ever
R0wed on the Thames.
A VERY EXCITING FINISH.
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-giddIed with Bullets The Band
OF Belgian Rioters-Ete.
The University Race.

LONDON, April 3.-camb=idge won the
University boat race on the Thames
this morning. The sky was cloudy.
weather mid and wind pretty strong
at the start and during the race the
water was sufficiently lumpy to put to a
thorough test, the stamina of the men
engaged in the contest. Betting was in
favor of the Cambridge crew. The
river banks were crowded with people,
thousands of people making the race
the event for holiday. a large crowd
OF rough and Ill clad persons appeared
on the scene as if to remind the holiday
makers that there were Englishmen
incapable OF enjoying themselves
These marched IN procession along
the race course, headed by 3 band
ard bearing 4 banner calling atten-
ton 20 thelistress among unemployed.
The boats were started even. and were
kept 50 by Us fine a contest Is was ever
witnessed on the course for about 4
mile. Then the Cambridge boat pulled
few feet ahead. In the second stage
the race was exciting. Cambridge men
made several desperate spurts 70 get
away from their competitors. but the
latter responded instantly and success
fully to each, and when Hammersmith
Bridge was reached the Cambridge
bow was but a quarter OF aiength ahead
A mile and q half had now been rowec.
amt the contest continued stubborn 70
Hanson Street, fairly even and exciting
up 10 the Uncomfortable mile point.
opposite Chiswick Church. Here
Oxford spuried, and the boat responded
by Iairly shooting along, until its prov
got even with that Of Cambridge. and
then passed il by few feet. The.con-
testants were urged on by cheering that
was loud and inspiriting. Cambridge
man gradually sent their boat up even
with that of Oxford, and the boats were
kept even until Barnes Bridge was
passed. Here neither crew had any
visible advantage. and both were
straining such a point that each over
passed form and splashed. The people
along the banks and on boats follow
ing. were now almost wild with excite
ment. and cries of Dead heatl dead
heatr" were everywhere heard. But
near the finish Cambridge men were
able to add one more squirt
to their long, sustained pull, and
IL moved their craft at ~ strokes 20 a
minute. a few feet ahead. snd they
passed the limit almost half a length IN
advance. winning one of the grandest
races ever rOwec over the course. The
excitenIent at the close was thrilling.
at no point during the entire race had
IL been possible for either crew 10 get
more than half q length ahead OF It's
rival. Dlr
The excitement at the close was thrill
ling. At no time during the entire race
had il been possible for either crew 70
gain more than half length advantage.
Up to almost the finish the race be
longed 70 either side, and excitement
among the partisans along the river
banks was increased from minute 70
minute from the start by a
continued eyenness of rowing and
equalization of advantages until
the .splendid finish relieved the
excitement, which broke and dissl
pated in perfect thunder Of applause,
The race is everywhere pronounced the
greatest ever pulled on the Thames
since the dead heat of 1871. The length
of the course was four miles and quar-
ter. the time made Dy Cambridge was
%, 291<, the longest occupied in any OF
the University races since the contest
of 1877. The tide was poor and the race
was rowed against strong head winds
almost the whole of the way, two facts
which sufficiently explain the time
made. In view of the continuous hard
pulling done by. the crews, the meu
of both crews were very much
exhausted at the finish. The Oxford
boat was steered badly.