ROWING TEST
8-Oar Race Decisive (N.Z. Press Assn. —Copyright) SYDNEY. The eight-oar crew are expected to tip the scales in favour of New Zealand in the first rowing test against Australia today. The test, to be held at Iron Cove, is the first staged between Australia and New Zealand. It is also the first of three tests to be held between the two countries in the next three weeks. Three international races will be decided in today’s test —eights, single sculls and uncoxed pairs. The Australian pair, Gordon McWhirter and Howard Croker, are favoured to win the uncoxed pairs, but New Zealand’s champion sculler, M. P. Watkinson, and the eight are tipped to give New Zealand victory. However, a set-back to New Zealand’s hopes occurred yesterday when Watkinson’s scull failed to arrive from London.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30901, 6 November 1965, Page 17
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