AUSTRALIAN AQUATICS.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 177, 28 July 1888, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN AQUATICS.

Peter Kemp, the present holder of the sculling championship, and Edward Hanlan, of Toronto, have been matched to row another race on the Parramatta River. The course will bo the same as on the occasion of their first match. The race is to take place on Friday, the 28th day of September. It will be for £500 a-sidc and the titular honour of champion sculler of tho world. The men will not go into active training until about six weeka before the date of the contest.

A sculling race for £100 a-side was rowed over the Parramatta championship course on the 13th inst. The competitors were Henry E. Searle, a promising young oarsman, who haila from the Clarence River, and James Stansbury, a youth of 20, who bolongs to the Shoalhavan district. Both the men had previously defeated Julius Wulf, a sculler of no mean repute, and considerblo interest was taken in this match, which terminated in the defeat df Stansbury. Searle started a firm favourite at 2to 1 on. The men got away to a capital start, both striking 40 to the minute. After the first burst the pace was moderated to the " thirties." Afc Uhr's Point Searlo led his opponent by threequarters of a length, and at the mile beacon, which was passed in 5 minutes 35 seconds, the Clarence River man had a lead of a clear length. Searlo rowed in good form, but Stansbury was wanting in style, and laboured too much. Nevertheless ho pulled a magnificent; race, and made several repeated and most determined attempts to outrow hia more speedy and graceful opponent. Searle, however, was enabled to maintain the advantage he had gained, and he eventually beat Stansbury by two lengths, the time being the fastest yeb recorded in a match race on the Parramatta, viz., 19 minutes 53 seconds, Trickett's timo for the same distance—2o minutes 11 seconds—being the next best. The contest was decided on the last of an ebb tide, and under conditions favourable ts making fast time.