SCULLING.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18128, 18 July 1924, Page 11

SCULLING.

I'ADDON V. FELTON. (SPECIAL TO "THE P2135.") WANGANUI, July 17.' The "Herald's" sporting editor says this • evening's issue:—-Jim "P&ddoii. writes in a hopeful strain regarding his prospects in the forthcoming race with ■ Alf JTelton. The champion has put in-.five weeks* long, solid work on, the : -Richmond river, and is satisfied with the way ho is shaping. He intended leaving for Brisbane last week in ofder to do (he rest of his work on the course over which the race is to take on August 12th. The second deposit- u£ £2OO a-side was paid- on-tho 6th inst., and the final , will he due on August - ICtli. • Jack Casey has been ..acting- as pacemaker for Paddon during the last two or three weeks, and has gone to Brisbane., with >hina. Eddie Larsea is, of course, acting in hU old capacity as trainer: Alf Felton has been • doing his preliminary work on the upper rcaahea of the Brisbane river, but he reckoned to shift on to the course last week. Ji.lt has not had a raco for a long time, bat hopes to get back to his best form. Peculiar interest attaches to-the'meeting of these two men, as both are giants, and will Bcale over 14at in condition. / The ia being looked., forward to .with great, interest by ecullfcg enthusiasts on the other side, who anticipate a desperate struggle between the two big fellows. Alf Helton's new-boat., has been named "Maurice Barrv, a*ter the Mayor of Brisbane. Jim Paddon s new stiff will be named "John Oxley, aKer the discoverer of the Brisbano river.

Talking of inflated languago, rrhich is one of the cultural evils of the time, a Taranaki paper reports that a Maori called at tne .Hawera station and pompously asked for his luggage, which; be said, consisted of two suitcases and a wicker basket. Ill© station hands searched for tho luggage described, but could not find it. Then tho traveller made tho discovery himself. Pointing to two corn sacks on a barrow ho informed & porter that they were his suit-cases. The remainder of the luggage was still mining, however, and urged bv the native, the railway people located the "wicker basket" at the Waitotara station. It was an old flax Maori kit containing a pumpkin. But whv blame the Maori ? (remarks a North Island paper). H© takes Bis tone from the European, to; whom all concerts are "gnuid," cabins "sjate rooms,'' Mid "yes's" "answers in tie affirmative."