ROWING TITLES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 79, 4 April 1938, Page 15

ROWING TITLES.

FIVE EVENTS HELD. WAITEMATA SUCCESSES. BAD LUCK WITH WKATHEK. The ronirli weather pci'voutcil the Auckland provincial chaiupion.-liips beinjt held oil Saliuday anil they with postponed u.rtil >'esterda\ iinniilnK and the venue changed to Hobson May. The coinliiions then were atrociou.-. heavy rain lalllnif all the time. but with Ihe couniry -.-men in trim the association ua.s left \\i;li no alternative but to r in the. lours, ihesu heins clinker built boats. 'ilm maiden ei-lits and the lulcr-proviliclal eights trial were, however. )>iistl>'!llPil and will lie rowed at the lir.-1 opportunity early this week. OwiiiK to the shortened course anil the. narrower waterway it was necessarv li, row Jin- raees in heat.-. Wililo at times this method docs nor preve satisfactory ihe results jcsif.rday bore out the lunr di.-j.laved during tlie season. Waiten.ata witli three wins collected *: 17 un<! again headed the winning lint. Mercer were next with £7, Auckland £'j and &t. £1. The raclnjj resulted : — •luni.ir Fours (S"ale Cup),— Mercer CI. McKohhie. Cbas. McUobbie, C. McKobbie. ft. Morc.v), 1: Waitemaiii it'. H. Cairns. W. .r. Brown. J. McCowan. A. Harperi. 2: Auckland No. 2 ill. .Icllie. I. FaiileonbrlUae. W. McCrejior. t-. r.earli, .:. Won by half a lenslh. with iwo lengths between second and third. Single S.-uils (Skeates Cllpi.—R. P.. Smith (Auckland), 1: C. Chamberlain (Auckland), 2: K. Sanders. .":. Won by one length, with 2M lengths, between second aud third. Youth's Fours (Nash Cup).—First heat: Waiteiuata (i. McCowan, P. Vokes. W. Me(iechie. 1 , . Midille.ton). 1: Tauranua (S. Anderson,, K Silvester, (i. Silvester. T. Klder), 2; Auckland No. 1 (1). Simmoiifls. D. Elwood, A. Adams. J. Smyihe), 3. Won by one length, with three liMiKtlis beiween other plaeed crews. Second heat : St. George's (J. Coot p. F. Uii-tin, ii. French. C. Hcdmes.i. 1: Auckland No, 2 ((». CossP.v. (i. Hewitt. K. Jacobs, C. Brierlyi, 2: Mercer IT. (lorilon. (i. Gorrie, T. Woods. F. Hitchcock). 3. Won by two lengths, ivil l> live lengths between srcoiid anil third. Final: Waitetiiata I.). McCowan. 1 , . Yokes. W. McGecliie, P. Mlddletoii 1, 1: St. Course's (J. Cootc, F. luislin, <i. French, C. Holmes 1, Heavy Maidens (l)ewar Shield).—First, heat: Waifoniata (.1. Jones. K. Vincenr, F. Phillips, o. Harper). 1: St. Gem-fie's (H Tone. K. Pi-'u-in. C. Hillianl, K. M..nds). 2: Mercer (K. (ioodwin. .1. Wooils, T Hil.-ii-eoek. Coone.v), :;. Second heat : Auckland (J. Dickson, W. Boon. T. Muirh'tt, V. Walker 1, 1: jCjfaniaw.Utia Soi 1, 2. Won by three-f|iiarters of a length. Whakalane and Nvarnawliia No. 2 stopped close i.n but did not cross the lino. Final: Wait..' niata (J. Jones. K. Vincent. F. Phillips J Harper), 1: Auckland (J. Dickson. "W. Boon. T. Muirtitt. V. Walker), 2. Lishtweijrht Mivdens (John (.Marie ■ Sht-ehlr. — Waitemata f.f. Sweenev. p. Vokes. A. Carbines. W. Clapham), 1 :" Au-k----land (O. Cijssp.v, G. Hewlett. K. Jacobs c Brierlyi. 2: St. <;eorge.'s (W. Kvau, J. Hill, H. Hay, T. Bovd;, 3.