Sport: Fizz

Celebrating "fizz-night" a week before the Oxford-Cambridge boat-race, Oxford and Cambridge oarsmen gathered last week in their respective training quarters near Putney, England. To each was served, instead of the measly training-table ration of one glass of port or 1½ pints of beer, a full, fat bottle of champagne. After watching the crews train for six weeks, critics said: "Neither can be called really good."

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