Advantages Enjoyed by Cambridge. In complimenting the Light Blues we cannot help calling attention to two curious facts which may have contributed to their victory, and seem to have escaped the notice of the Oxford crew. According to The Weekly Dispatch Mr. Swann rowed "No. 9 in the Cambridge boat"; and a photograph in The Illustrated Sunday Herald ("the camera cannot lie") distinctly shows the Cambridge crew rowing with as many as eight oars on the stroke side. How many they were using on the bow side is not revealed.
Even the serious condition of Joe Batt's Arm hardly interests us so much as the challenge to the world's humourists implied in the Committee's selection of their secretary. |