The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-29

LONDON. March 2S.-Oxford won
the boat race.
The crowds along the banks of the
usual.
Cambridge was a hot favorite at six
to four and few takers.
1t was royal struggle, but the Ok
fords finally pushed ahead of the Cam
bridge boat and won for the seventh
time by a short third length in 20:O1.
The event was pronounced to be the
BEST EVER SEEN
on the Thames course. Oxford won
simply because her representatives re-
fused to be beaten. Cambridge seemed
to have the race we'll in hand, but did
not prove equal to Oxford's final squirt.
The weather conditions were terri
Bile. Immediately after the crews
started, d cold, binding rain was
driven against them. After the first
mile had been rounded under these
conditions the wind increas ed in
strength and the rain changed into a.
binding hail storm, which obscured
the rival crews from the spectat tors on
shore, and against which one could
scarcely stand
The hail storm lasted only a few
minutes, but on the final stretch be-
yond Barnes bridge the wind swept
OVER the course with redoubled fury,
stirring up the water until it resembIed
an angry sea. In fact, it seemed that
the splendid racing craft must cap
size.
Owing to the bend in the stream the
oxford boat was at that stage of the
race on its best station, but it seemed
a, sheer impossibility for the. dark
blues to overcome Cambridge's lead.
Nothing, however, could withstand
THE TERRIBLE Squirt
made by Oxford when Gold called for
the final effort 1t proved too much
for Cambridge, and in the last seven
ty-f1ve yards Oxford shot ahead
The scene at the finish was remark
able one. Both crews were drenched to
the skin, and the two boats were half
full OF water. Two or three of the can
tabs were completely exhausted, so
much so that they were completely I'M
able to raise their hands. The dark
blues also showed the effects of the
struggle, but to much lighter degree,
and De Knoop, the American memb Der
VI Lie OAIOIQ crew, anu OCnerS III the
dark blue boat. waived their hands in
triumph as they sat on their seats,
painting but happy in the extreme.
After few minutes delay, Oxford
headed gaily to the Isis boat, from
where, in addition to the union jack,
the stars and stripes were floating in
honor OF the United States and it's
sturdy representative. de Knoop.
The Cambridge men soon followed
Oxford's example and padded to their
lboat-house, adjoining Oxford's quarters,
and the first thing the light blues did
after landing was to repair to the boat
house of the dark blues and heartily
CONGRATULATE THE VICTORS.
Among the spectators at the race to-
day were the lord chief justice Baron
Russell of Killowen and Sir Edward
Clark, @. D., the solicitor general, who
was on the press boat.
The time at CravenStep was 2 min.
Is Sec; the first mile was done in 4
min. s Sec; Hammersmith bridge was
passed in Z min IS sec, and Chiswick
church in II min. 80 sec. The result
caused a great sensation in the Lon
don clubs as, owing to the bulletins
from the course, saying that Cambridge
was leading, the light blues were
thought to have sure thing in today's
race. Cambridge this year put forth
fact that Oxford had an unbroken re-
cord for six consecutive winnings was
largely responsible for this.