Rowing MAADI CUP RACE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28543, 24 March 1958, Page 8

Rowing MAADI CUP RACE

Mount Albert Grammar Wins

(New Zealand Press Association) DUNEDIN, March 23. The Mount Albert Grammar School eight recorded its fifth successive win and its seventh since the race was instituted in 1947 when the annual contest for the Maadi Cup, symbol of secondary school rowing supremacy, was rowed on Lake Waihola yesterday.

Mount Albert was fast away at the start, followed by Christian Brothers’ (Dunedin), Wanganui Technical. Hamilton High School and Christchurch Boys’ High School. These crews continued to be prominent until the last quarter mile when Christchurch Boys’ High School looked the likely winners.

Mount Albert, however, rowing a well-judged race, snatched victory by half a length, with Hamilton in third place. Otago won the senior eights in the triangular contest rowed in conjunction between Otago Canterbury and Southland. Canterbury won the junior event Results:— Maadi Cup: Mount Albert Grammar <M. L. C. Paterson, P. C. Ward, A. J. Fitchew, G C Crawshaw. I. D. Parlane W L Edwards. S. C. Cherry. G.’ L Trembath and M W. Smith, Cox)' Christchurch Boys’ High Schooi 2. Hamilton Boys’ High School 3. Half a leneth. a canvas. . Senior eights: Otago I, Canterbury 2, Southland 3. Three lengths, a distance. Junior eights: Canterbury 1, Otago 2. Southland 3. A canvas a distance.