The Boat Race result must be counted as first and
foremost a triumph for Lady Margaret, which supplied five out of the eight oarsmen in the Cambridge crew. It is in keeping with the strik- ing revival in Lady Margaret rowing which took the club to the head of the river last year in both Lents and Mays. But there are two sides to this kind of success from the college point of view. This year the Lent boat went down three places, from head to fourth, partly, without a doubt, because the experienced oarsmen who should have been supervising its training were themselves engaged in the University Boat. And in regard to the May Races next June, while L.M.B.C. will consist of five blues plus three others, the blues are not likely to be back from racing Harvard and Yale in time to begin practice at the proper date, and when they do get home the prolonged austerities required as preliminaries first for the Putney to Mortlake race and then for the Harvard and Yale races can hardly fail to leave them a little stale. But the greater and the lesser must be kept in proportion ; a college can be content to suffer a little on the Cam if it can serve the University as it did on Monday on the Thames. And after the Mays there will still be Henley.
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