SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 176, 26 July 1911, Page 5

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

FAST RACE EXPECTED. SYDNEY, July 25. Arnst and Pearce are iv active training for the -championship race. They will have their final rows on Thursday.

(Received 9.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Experts anticipate that Saturday's sculling will provide the fastest race on record, at least for the first mile. Both are rowing at the top of their form.

They will have a strong tide, and probably the wind, in their favour. During the recent heavy weather they have been training by means of short, hard sprints under shelter of the headlands, and have been showing marvellous pace. Tremen dous interest is excited, and a big attendance is expected.

"So fur as the training operations are concerned, everything appears to be progressing satisfactorily (writes '.Rigger' in last Wednesday's 'Daily Telegraph'). I saw Arast yesterday morning, and he wanted to "tell mc that he bad gone stale. There is something up with me,' he said. "I don't know what it is, but I can't go the full course. When I get to Gladesville I go right off, and have to turn back. I think I have done too much work in too short a space of time. As a matter of fact, I am not going out at all to-day.' Well, I have known Dick too long not to know when he is trying to have a little fun at my expense, and I told him so; but he only laughed and repeated that he had gone off. I told him he must have some money he wanted to get on himself, and he only laughed again. The trouble is Arnst is always the same whether he is trying to 'puJ your leg, , or whether he is telling you the most serious thing in the world. He will always laugh about it, and you hardly know whether to take him seriously or not. However, I told hin what I thought about it, and he finished up by saying that he had been doing good work on the river and off it. On the river, he said, he had been getting in some fast work over the two miles, and had done very well. He did some very good work on Sunday and also on Monday. His boat, he said, was the best he had ever had.

"Pearce, for his part, has done equally well. Hg has gat up a. splendid pace, and as to stamina, well, that is unquestionable. Ou Saturday la3t he did a good fast row over the coarse, and at the latter end was picked up by an eightoared crew. This crew pa*ced Him for a considerable distance, and when I say that he held the eight comfortably, even I after he had practically covered the ! course, it will at once he seen that he has developed a great amount of stamina. To hold an eight, even a scratch eight, is a pretty tough task, bat when a man can do it after having rowed a threemile course, well he should stand a good chance of pushing his opponent along on •the day of the race, provided, of course, that he is as well bodily. Thi3 performance has had the effect of greatly pleasing Pence's supporters, and they are more than ever confirmed *>■«{ their smo \iwill Mcore the t ln ~v][^v'**£ n -