AQUATICS

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 138, 10 June 1905, Page 12

AQUATICS

The balance-sheet of th? last Auckland "Anniversary Regatta has been ! passed by the committee. The total rej ceipts were ,£469 17/5. and the expendi- [ j ture £403 11/4; balance in bank, £6G 6/1. The prize-money was set down at £243 4/. but as the scow race has been dec-bred off the prize-money (£SO) has to be deducted from that amount, which ' reduces the expenditure accordingly. . The receipts also will be slightly affected Jby the return of the entrance money in ] this race. The subscriptions and d6na- ; ' tions amounted to £310 4/: entrance ■ money totalled £07 16/. and the taki I ings on the flagship amounted to £:JO. . ! Besides the prize-money the principal ' j items of expenditure were: Flagship. ;i £19 7/; secretary's salary. £21; sun- ; drie?. £25. The annual prize night in connection . with the West End Rowing Club will be held in the boathousp on Friday j next. , An inter-Varsity boat race was to be '. rowed on the Port Adelaide River this . afternoon. j ilr C. V. Fox. 2nd Scots Guards. \v!io t won the Winpfield Sculls in 1000 and the . Diamond at" Henley the following year. ; returned to EnglaDd last month, after a lengthened sojourn on the West Coast . of Africa, where he was engaged in t7ie ; Aro and other important expeditions. ; Speaking to a representative the ; London "Sportsman," the distinguished . Irish athlete, who, notwithstanding a : long and arduous campaign, looks ac fix ■ as could be wished, said if at all pos- • sible he would make another attempt i at the Diamonds and Wiagfieids, both of .which he had tft resign. -