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Show BEST TIME EVER MADE. Tat Boit Race BMweea Oxford and Cambridge. The Honor. ir Ih. liar Again torrle.1 Oir lijr Hie ll&furd lllllFTtll). London, March 22. The OxforJ-Cambridge OxforJ-Cambridge til raoa started at J 35 p. in. A lljht nlud was blowing. At Clatpirs boat houto Cambridge was In tho lead by throu feet. At tho ind of two miles Oxford had tailed Cambridge Cam-bridge an I wui leaJlng by u yard, which was lucre no 1 to a iUirter length, and, going on lu the leid, won thu race by two lengths an 1 a half. Today It was for the fiftieth tlmo that the crows of Oxford and Cambridge rat In tlulr shells on tliaTliarm s aud rowuj fordeartlfc. It was Oxford's Iwinty seventh victoiy, rnucourru was tho hitorlo ilretch bctwteu I'utiiey aud Mortlaki, four aad n quarter mills At 1 utuiy brldiu I eforo the race began, be-gan, rone or people lined the parat. Ou thu wide f inshore, In Iront of the rowing club liouiis, a great croud was gatbtrul. 1 achslduuf the liver was lined Willi tugs, bargm, whirries and all luaiitiir of craft, accommodating slght-siers. Ashore and titlint wnsa Lay show of buntlmr. Along the coursu lisliionlts wore II llo J with kally dresfid ladles. Thu start look (lacs from Hbno Hoad lirl Igu at Putney, (.'ambrldge won tlie toes aud chose the Hurrey side. The tldu was running strongly, and there was a slight wind. All bilug In readlmss, thu clllolal slarlir llred n pistol, an 1 ami 1 thu shouts of admirers uud the hootlug und sonamlug ol stiam whistles anil ij reus, the crews shot up thu stream. Yills of excitement excite-ment and shout of encouragement to both crows uroie all along thecoursuas the bonis csme In slitht, mid as they I nsseil, trail of every kind to to seen In the Thames cloied lu behind aud crowdid nftir, lhe race was of Interest to Americans thlsytar ly rtasou of thu prospeotive uplearancu of those famous crews lu America, against Harvard or Yale. Bo the coiniarlson of tlmo luado ut homo and abroad lit comes a matter of Imrortauio. In thu lour mile race Harvard and i ale have never equalled the time made by Oxford lent year. In l6o3thedlitiucu vras ioendlu2H 111. Oxford's time was 19.47. Hie tlmo of the race Ii the btst ever made ovir thu courre, Thu best I revloua tlmu was that of Oxford last yiar, 10 21, |