Talk:The Boat Race 1964/GA1

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Reviewer: Good888 (talk · contribs) 19:27, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Having giving this article a couple of reads, I found the following issues:

Lead section

• "Cambridge won the Women's Boat Race." Perhaps you could rewrite to: "In the Women's Boat Race, Cambridge triumphed by ? lengths."

  I would love to, but even the official website has no recorded winning distance for this year. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Background

• "The main race was umpired by the former Olympian Kenneth Payne who had rowed for Cambridge in the 1932 and 1934 races." and who umpired the Women's race?

  Again, that information is unavailable to me. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Crews

• Do you have an image of any of the crew members?

  No, only Lecky has an article (unless you can find otherwise), I always check for articles and images in this section. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Race

• "Cambridge won the toss and elected to start from the Surrey station." Note that it handed Oxford the Middlesex station.

  Done. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

• "Do any reliable sources describe the weather conditions?

  Added some from a '64 Guardian report. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

• "In the 20th running of the Women's Boat Race, Cambridge triumphed, their third consecutive victory." It would help if you could expand on this a bit more, such as how many lengths did they win it by, how long the winning time was and (if there was one) who won the toss and which station they selected.

  As above, the early women's BRs were completely under-reported. As of 2015 that will significantly change.... The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

That's all the issues I could find. I will promote once these are addressed. good888 (talk) 19:27, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks, sorry I couldn't address your concerns more appropriately, but I don't have access or even any knowledge that the info you're looking for is easily accessible. Thanks for the review. The Rambling Man (talk) 19:58, 19 November 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for responding. A shame no data on the Women's race could be found, but nonetheless I am promoting this article to GA class. good888 (talk) 18:51, 20 November 2014 (UTC)