ROWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 5, 7 January 1931, Page 9

ROWING.

INTER-PROVINCIAL EIGHTS.

AUCKLAND CREW CHOSEN

GOOD PROMISE SHOWX.

The Auckland Rowing Association's Electors, Messrs. S. B. E. Rutledge and A. Ross, have chosen the following crew to represent Auckland in the interprovincial eight-oar championship, to be decided at Dunedin, probably on March 21:— E. A. Cotes, North Shoro (str.); L. E. Brooker, Waitemata (7); I. C. Horton, St. George's (G); L. Patterson, Wffitemata (5): H. E. Jackson, St. George's (4); 0. E. Felton, West End (3); C. G. Fearon, Waitemata (2); R. Smith, Waitemata (bow). Emergencies: J. Beasley (Waitemata), W. Seagar (Xorth Shore). . Mr. T. .Marshall, of the Waitemata Club, will be coach. L. E. Brooker has been appointed captain. Ou paper the crew is a strong one. Cotes is stroke for his club's junior fours, which scored their latest success at Onerahi on New Year's Day. Brooker was selected for the New Zealand crew to go to the last Olympic Games, and although the crew did not get away, he received the Olympic Badge. He was a member of the Waitemata crew whicli ■won the Stewards' Challenge Cup fit Melbourne. Horton was unfortunate in missing a seat in the Cambridge University eight which defeated Oxford two yeare ago, and has been rowing well as stroke since he joined up with the St. George's Club last season. Pattei-son is a particularly good oar, while Jackson is a member of his club's senior crew. Felton, an ex-captain, of his club, stroked the West End junior crew which scored many successes last season. Fearon is the present captain of the Waitemata Club and has the reputation of being one of the best oarsmen iu the country. Smith has been rowing only three yearo, but shows great promise and the selectors feel confident that he will make good. Beasley is also a highly promising oar and the same may be said about Seagar, who was a member of the Shore Club's undefeated junior crew. The selectors are men who know their job well. Mr. Rutledge was No. C in the New Zealand Army Service crew which made rowing history by winning the international eight-oar race on the Seine'in 1919 and the inter-Allied eights in England during the same year. Mr. Roes was a member of the New' Zealand crew which went to the British Empire Games at Hamilton, Ontario, last year. Mr. Marshall has' the reputation of being a most successful coach with Waitemata Club crews. He was a member of the Army Service Corps four which won a number of events on. the Thames about twelve years ago. The crew had a spin on the harbour last evening, and shaped well for their first outing, the selectors expressing themselves as well satisfied with the display. The crew will train every Saturday and Sunday afternoons. The Hamilton and Tauranga Clubs were circularised before the selection was made, but no "•-""nation's were received. Wisely, apparently, the outside clubs realised that a crew' which would jiave no trouble in training together -.■would haVe greater chances of success.