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rowing in the style which has lately been peculiar to 

 their respective Universities. But the Cambridge crew 

 is rowing in that form of the Cambridge style which 

 brings it nearest to the requirements of modern 

 racing. The faults of the style are subdued, so to 

 speak, and its best qualities brought out effectively. 

 In one or two of the long series of defeats lately 

 sustained by Cambridge the reverse has been the case. 

 At present, too, there is a certain roughness about 

 the Oxford crew which encourages the hopes of the 

 light blue supporters. But it must be admitted that 

 this roughness is rather apparent than real, great as 

 it seems, and it will doubtless disappear before the day 

 of encounter. I venture to predict that the * time ' 

 of the approaching race, taken in conjunction with the 

 state of the tide, will show the present crews to be at 

 least equal to the average. 1 



(From the Daily News, April 1869.) 



BETTING ON HORSE RACES: OR, THE STATE 

 OF THE ODDS. 



THERE appears every day in the newspapers an ac- 

 count of the betting on the principal forthcoming races. 

 The betting on such races as the Two Thousand 

 Guineas, the Derby, and the Oaks, often begins more 



1 The race (that of 1869) was one of the best ever rowed, and 

 the time of the winners (Oxford) better than in any former race. 



