Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 4, 1955
¶An old race-track trick of betting a few bob on all the Irish horses in England's Grand National steeplechase almost broke the books at Aintree when a loo-to-g shot named Quare Times, running under the colors of Mrs. William Welman of Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland, romped home in the mud by 12 lengths. Another Irish horse, Carey's Cottage (20-1), came in third.
¶Wind and rough water on the Thames made dusty going for the Oxford and Cambridge crews. But with the help of two Americans (Harvardmen Phil Du-Bois and R.A.G. Monks), the Light Blues of Cambridge stroked to the finish...
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