AQUATICS.
PADDON TO RACE FELTON.
FOR WORLD'S TITLE. (bt cable—press copraioET.) (AUSTRALIAN AMD N.Z. CAB LB ASSOCIATION.) (Received June 10th, 10.65 p.m.) BRISBANE, June 10. Paddon has agieed to race Felton for the world's titlo and £SOO a-side, on the Brisbane river, In' August.
AUSTRALASIAN SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
(PEKSS ASSOCIATION TELSOIUM.) June 10. The much-talked-of race for tho Australasian championship waa rowed ■ on the Northern Wairoa River to-day under beautiful weather and water conditions. Tho starters were W. McDevitt, G-. Ceruti (Australia), Darcy Hadfield (Auckland), James Mason (Whangarei). It was recognised, that the race would be a contest between Hadfield and McDevitt. The latter waa favourite on the day, and the result of the race proved the public's ideas to be right, as after the first two miles McDevitt took tha lead and won fairly comfortably by three lengths from Hadfield, who- was plainly out of oondition. Th» ot ier two starters were outclassed and finished some distance in the rear.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18096, 11 June 1924, Page 12
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