Alah Barrow, a medium-paced left-hand bowler, playing for the Riversleigh Club in the Lower Richmond cricket competition, took seven wickets for no runs! Barrow, who had seven overs into a strong northerly wind, did the hat-trick. The opposing team were dis-
Peetations. The violers were favour ed to win because they. possessed the heavier crew and because the course of the race lay upstream and the men faced head winds in heavy There was none of the usual boat race day excitement at Henley, most of the spectators being evacuated school children who were specially brought to the scene to watch the big event.
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