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« POOR OLD OXFORD IN NEED OF PEP LONDON. England. April 1.— Amid sleet and snow and a biting east wind Cambridge for the lourih year in succession beat Oxford by five lengths in the long boat race from Putney to Mort-lake. The official time was 19:30. On e before, .1 ls72, the race was rowed in a blinding snow-sasrai and then, as today, it was won by Cambridge. There wire no contests between 1914. whea Cain-bridge won. owing to the world war, and 1920. w hen tl. ■ light blues won again, repeating the victory in 1921 and today. Todays race was the seventy-third betweea the famous universities. Oxford has won thirty-nine times anil Cambridge thirty-three. The race in 1871 resulted in a lead licit. I
