THE SCULLING MATCH.
BARRY'S EASY WIN. LONDON, October 13. In the race for the sculling championship of England, Towns, who used an Aus-tralian-built boat, and rowing 35 to the minute to Barry's 32, dashed to the front and led by half-a-length at the half-mile post, by a length at the mile, and threequarters of a length at Hammersmith. Barry made a grand spurt past Chiswick Eyot (an islet on the championship course), and passed„,Towns, at the Cnis-. wick Church. Afterwards he kept two lengths ahead, despite Towns' plucky spurt in the last hundred yards.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 246, 14 October 1908, Page 5
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