Jock Strip is always delighted to hear of people taking
college sport as seriously as would be expected, and events
during sailing cuppers would seem to act as a guiding light to
all Oxford sportsmen. Thankfully, LMH’s victory did not come
at the expense of drunken antics, and a couple of members of the
side showed a willingness to ‘go overboard’ in more
ways than one. The result was aided by the fact that the boats
behind them were forced to navigate through an array of bodily
fluids. Speaking of drunken sport, Jock Strip retains a soft spot for
the Blues pool side, and we are pleased to acknowledge that a
superb victory has added the Dark Blues to the growing array of
Oxford Varsity winners this week. It is fair to say that the
66-28 scoreline accurately reflected the difference in quality
between the sides. The Blues netball team showed that it remains superior to the
rugby union side at handling big, round balls on Monday night. In
a specially arranged game, Iffley Road and a large crowd of
spectators saw an exciting 25-24 victory for the netball girls, a
result which will give them cheer after their Varsity defeat,
achieved despite one team member’s comment that the rugby
players were “so massive they didn’t have to
jump.” Jock Strip remains in a mood beneficial both to charities and
mile running, after last week’s combination of a RAG sports
day and the anniversary of the four-minute mile at Iffley Road,
and we draw our readers’ attention to Friday 9 July, when
Iffley will host a Sport Relief drive to “do a mile”
for charity. Further details will be provided soon. Jesus may have saved man from sin, but he did nothing to help
the fortunes of his boat club this weekend. On Saturday the Jesus
Women’s 2nd Eight’s rudder snapped off on the raft,
ending up bottom of the Isis. Then, on Sunday their Men’s
Secnds ended up with a boat slightly shorter than normal, coming
off worse in a fracas with a pedallo. Returning to the river in
the 1st Eight boat, one can only wonder what they must have
thought as a pleasure craft hurled towards that, (something like,
“Where’s the hell’s the last ten inches of my
bow”). Meanwhile Mansfield will race in a Benet’s boat
after suffering similar collisions.ARCHIVE: 3rd week TT 2004
Jock Strip
