SCULLING.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 222, 17 September 1915, Page 7

SCULLING.

- ■' • m N. 7. CHAMPIONSHIP THE TRAINING OPERATIONS. T.y Telegraph —Press Association ) WANGANUI, this day. Interest in the above race for the New Zealand sculling .ihanTpionshi-i', new less tihan a week off. is growing, ajid the chances of the two men aire ibemg freeilv d-isonssed di-svpite tlie fact tihat the j*reat war c-Uu-jms so -much attention. It may -be mentioned that Han-nan's chatlr-ngo t-o Web was issued --onic t-hrec rrrvont.hs before tin' oiitbre-a'k of the wair. hut the neemtiations vvcTe -proion-ged throng-h various Toas-ons. though iboth men were eag,-r fox the Tiratoh to lie ratified. The Tesnilt was It hat. tlhe rprincvpais were •p-laee*i in th>e posrition of rra.vi.ng to go on wibh the negotiations aaid er.nohide arrangements as soon as possfMc to tow and settle the aTpuri*e.nt that had arisen. Dirri-np it-ho past week or so 'Ha.Tm.xn, ih-vs put in a lot of good work, rowing generally twice a day. On .Satmiay fast he did some pracit'iso at startnrg hy tmuttia] consent, lhav-ing a. well known -loca.l ama - teiir a- pax-oima.ker. Hannnj] showed faiT .pace off the mark, but. his strong forte is his a.bil-ity it-o row at. a very solid -pace over the fuiM d-istancc. That is to say. he is m-rrre of a stayer than a siprinter. He is very fi,t. .being as ■hard as naids. and he is undoubtedly a pow-erfivl yourag fellow, with -heaps of grit, one wih-o mill stick it ouit to the end. He Towed down yesterday from •his camp above Upokongaro -to the Dublin Street bridge, and them went, ■back rowing eteadffly all the way. Wabb 'has been doin(Z some lively rowing during the last Xew days, purtinjr in a fast spin over a (mile, and a-ha,if yesterday. He appears to be rowing as well as ever, but it wi,U Temaan to be -proved on the day whether he hae '"coime back." If he has, them Hammui wiill need to -be. a won-de-rfirfiy good man to win. seeing that his experience is very limited cotm-pair-ed to tinai of Webb's. However. Ha-nnaa has whatever ad vantage lubere may be in bein" some five yeaa-s younger, and this is expected in sorme q-uartefs to tarn the scale in his favour.

The -jhareholders of the. £dendale (Southland) dairy factory, at the annual 'meeting on Wednesday night, donated £640 for patriotic purposes, £440 being for wounded soldiers and £200 for Lady | Liverpool' 6 fund for the supply of 6heepi skin Teste.