AQUATICS.
The Union Rawing Chubs President's Cup race- ■was .rowed on Saturday, on Kerr , * reach, Burwood. Each heat produced excitiing finishes. The results are as follows:—H. JfcuKfield fboiw), G. A. Berry (2), E. J. Barnes (3), H. SKnneir (stroke). F. Clark (cox.), beat C. Colline fbow), P. ChappeU (2), W. A. I>ra.ke, J. E. Brooks (stroke), G. Hassell (cox). This race vra? spiritedly contested. .At €he. halfmile post the foospte -were level, bust Skinner afterwards secured a slight advantage, wjriidh -wee maintained to the finish, ttie crew wiruoing by a length and a half. In flbe final F. Samdford (bow), R. Ewing (2), J. Blackmore (3), W. Duggan (stroke), W. FoTsytih (cox.), defeated Skinner'e crew. This was a nxost exciting race, the boats being dead level all tihe "vvay, and the orews displaTiog most determined efforts to pull off *he prize. Duggan, by a sustained effort a few yards from the finish, just lasided Wβ iboat ihe •winner hy a eboirt aalflengtih-
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11190, 3 February 1902, Page 6
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