THE NAPIER CARNIVAL.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 71, 23 March 1908, Page 5

THE NAPIER CARNIVAL.

ROWING AND SWIMMING CHAM- ; PIONSHIPS. (By Telegraph.—l'ress Association.) ; NAPIER, this day. ' The weather promised well early this ' morning for swimmiag and rowing chamtowards 11 o'clock a heavy squall came over, but the weather cleared after a time. " :.' : - .Champion Sculls: ,Geo. Welch (Akaroa) \ 1, E. Mac Donald (Wanganui'2, C: A. Poll (Napier) 3."A150 started: Green (Wanga- ! nui), Stoke (Aramoho), Fell (Star, Wel- '" lington). . Won by twenty lengths. .'■ Maiden Fours. Napier 1, Canterbury 2, ' Wellington 3. Won by three-quarters of I a length. . -■ • ■.■•■■ ' Light Weight Maiden Fours: Napier ' 1, Gisborne 2, North Shore 3. .Won by 1 tliree lenjjths. ' Maiden Sculls; Christiansen (Union, j- Wanganui) 1, Robertson (Star, Welling- . ton) 2, Dustin '(Gisborne) 3. Won by a c length and a-half. Time 8.20. ' 220 Yards Swimming - Championship; ' Champion 1, Freyberg 2, Dodge 3. Won •by four yard?. Time. 2.30. '. Maiden Double Sculls. —Wellington 1, Union (Napier) 2, Napier 3. Won by *- four lengths. Time, 7.7 2-5. , Youths' Fours. 1, Union (Wanganui) 2, Napier 3. Won by half a - length. i ! Champion Fours: Blenheim No 2, firstj ] Waitemata 2; Clifton (Waitara), 3. I W on hy two lengths. : ; . j , A splendid race. Won by three I lengths. Timp, llmin. 47sec. ■ Quarter of a niije swimming champion- ' ship: Champion, lj Freyberg, 2.