ROWING.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 279, 25 November 1938, Page 13

ROWING.

ON THE HARBOUR,

VARIED PROGRAMME TO-MORROW

in^r o^^ 0 " t he Auckland Rowo v. . ! hold trial fours for the Schmidt trophies. 1 e The Waitemata Boating Club's trials are for the C. .T. Ellerbeck memotfal of Ol fh leS 'i K Mr «? 1 L e , rbeck was commodore f». i u 5 h,s (,ea t h recently, and the club has decided to pay a tribute to his memory in this manner 'f *•«*« conditions be suitable the West End ( lub will row the eights for the Mrs Mortimer Fairs memorial shield.

M.A.G.S. TRIAL FOURS.

in « r «mma r School Rowi c i ts thlrd annual trial racev \\-«L ,?« Bay- PonN °"by. this week. \\ater conditions were excellent on both days, and the standard of rowing was better than that in the preceding years. Five crews competed, tlie course being half a nulo. Results were :—

Preliminaries.—Easton. Webb. Pitcher Davies. McKenzie (cox), beat Tucker Pul.mui. Cleland. Kay. White (cox) bv two lengths ; Prentice, Anderson. (Jenge Rogers. Horn (coxi. beat Wickham, Rudllng. Tremhath. Caldwell. Goulding (coxi by two lengths and a half.

Final. — Stuckey, Rollinson, Leggatt Hickson. Orr (cox) met the crews of Easton and Prentice. From a good starr the crews were even until half-wav. -where Stuckey drew ahead and maintained his lead to -win by two lengths. The other crews were more evenly matched, and in spite of a <diallenge by Prentice. Easton gained second place by three-quarters of a length.