ROWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 257, 31 October 1933, Page 13

ROWING.

SEASON OPENED. FIRST INTER-CLUB RACE. The jubilee celebrations of the Waitemata Boating Club proved a pronounced success, and members have every occasion to feel satisfied. The occasion drew old members from various parts of the Dominion, and a wealth of further information was gained that will be greatly prized in the club's records. Present-day members met in life the old-timers, so often heard of, but until now known only by their photographs on the clubhouse walls. Next Saturday, Waitemata (holders) will control the first inter-club race of the season, the Barratt Cup. As usual, each club will row a set of trial fours, and then engage in a grand final for the cup. Officials of the various other clubs should note the conditions and arrangements for the day, and see that their crews are ready to start punctually to time. Entries close at 1.45 p.m. sharp, and racing starts at 2 p.m. All crews will be drawn in the Waitemata boathouse — that is a condition of the race. The Barratt Cup final is timed to start at 4.30 p.m., and, with proper organisation, the various clubs interested shoi '.d be ready ami waiting at that hour. While on the subject of starting and finishing time, as there are many new officers in some of the clubs, it would be both advisable and profitable to them and the sport if this quecll.m is propei'ly attended to. A starting time should be fixed and late-comers left out. It is, of course, impossible to avoid delays through weather conditions and breakdowns, but no excuse for the "any old time" methods of some men. The various clubs qualifying trial fours are: —Waitemata, W. Lowe and Son's trophies: Auckland, Clark Memorial Shield; St. George's. Rousell Cup and miniatures; North Shore, club trophies; West End, R. L. Stewart trophies. The Thomas Peacock Shield trial fours opened the West End Club's trial season last Sat'rdny, and good, lively racing was enjoyed. The final proved a go worthy of the occasion, and, it appeared anybody's race until in the last half-dozen strokes E. Sueh's crew, stroked by W. Parnell, made a great effort to get the verdict by four feet. Every week until the end of the year the various clubs will be engaged in racing. The respective regatta selectors are already busy on the crews in readiness for the North Shore' Kepatta on November 25, when several inter-club trophies will be decided, and points gained for the R. V. Bennett Memorial Shield, held by North Shore Club.