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Show Light Blues Score Upset Over Oxford LONDON, "April 1 Of" Cambridge's Cam-bridge's Light Blues, bsatsn th last two years, scored a startling upset on fof-shroudsd Thames today by beating Oxford's favored crew by four length la their ninety-first boat race. A crowd of a half-million saw Cambridge's lightsr sight outsprtnt Oxford In calm water at tha start, gain a full length lead In the first half-mile and then almost disappear disap-pear In tha fog at the finish sfter lengthening Its margin to three lengths at th two-mil marker. Dark Blue Fevered Today's victory, ths Light Blus's forty-eighth and most surprising of the series, wss achieved in IS minutes J ssconds for ths four mil, 17 yards. Before the race, critics described Oaterd aa "ben combined and most Impreeslve looking Dark Blue crew sines th war," and Carabridg as "moat ragged and one most heterogeneous hetero-geneous ever to row in the race." Betting favored Oxford at odda of T to t So confident was ths Oxford crew that even when they won the lose thsy chose ths Middlesex sids of th rivsr theoretically the meet unfavorable position. Ths Dark Blues also hsd ths advantage of having a coxswain, Bart Maasey, woo wstghsd only Tl pounds. Hs is only ft Inches In height, th son of ths Canadian high com- ' missionsr In London and nephew , of Actor Raymond Masssy, cur- , rently playing Abraham Lincoln In "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" in New York. American Bows Rowing No. 3 for Cambridge1 was a tall, sturdy Boston boy, Hugh Parker, the only American in the race, who formerly rowed for Tabor academy. Parker aaid it was his thirtieth victory out of 32 starts la university compstitlon. "We practiced starts diligently for a week before coming to Tideway Tide-way and decided to try to out-eprlnt out-eprlnt Oxford from the start.'' said Parker. The only thing we didn't expect was that ws would get such a long Issd In ths first two milss. After that we practically paddled." Oxford's only alibi was given by President J. L. Carton. "Ws didn't start fast snough. In contrast Cambridge got away with a magnificent spurt led by canvas In th first BO yards and than slowly pulled away until three lengths separated the two boats aftsr ths first two mils. |