They do not risk a quicker until they either feel that they can safely afford it, or, on the other hand, feel in des peration that their current pace of stroke does not suffice to win. Even then such quicken ings are not mere " spurts," but more or less permanent increases until their necessity is past. A real " spurt " is seldom risked before tho finish of a race, unless when a leading boat tries to take or a sternmosfc boat to save water. Also, while making due allowance for the inconvenience of Mr Goldie's broken row lock bolt, we wish to correct the far-fetched imagination of many who, knowing nothing of bout-building, think that the mishap reduced Cambridge toa' seven-oai I .' Of four irons which support the rowlock, the bolt fastening one of these irons to the gunwale gave war. (The san:* happened to one of the Pembroke Eight at the start for the Ladies' Plate at Henley, -which they won, last year.) The other three bolts held good, and the rowlock maintained its place. The harm clone was that the rowlock would bo slightly loose, vary ing, 23erhaps, half-an-inch in level according to the pressure of the stroke, incommoding, but not crippling, the oarsman ; and the risk of breaking another bolt would induce the oars man to row more of a practising than racing strength, at least till ho was assured that the mischief was likely to extend no f urther. Many critics have assumed that because Houblon was rowing the quicker lie was also rowing the shorter stroke ; nothing can be more erroneous. It was certainly an anomaly to see the quicker and longer stroke unable to hold the shorter and slower, but such was the fact, and we explain it as above. Nor is it true that the former styles of the two 01ub3 have been reversed. The distinctive features of either still remain, but Cambridge produce an improved edition of their former losing style (a style wliich is much dictated by the " feel "of a boat upon the Cam, on which they pi*actise), while Oxford have rather neglected a minor, but never unimportant item of their old style, — neatness of finish and feather. There is but one style for per fect rowing ; it might be compounded from these two imperfect Univei'sity styles. 