Reivers 'on schedule'

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33611, 13 August 1974, Page 24

Reivers 'on schedule'

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J. A. GASPARICH)

ERBSHAUSEN (Bavaria). The performance of the New Zealand rowing team at the two-day Hanover regatta was right up to the expectations of team officials of this stage of preparations for the world championships. ■ The eight easily beat the Australians on Saturday, but I took them too lightly on Sunday, and was beaten by a length. It looked lethargic. The team manager (Mr W. Wrathall) said he thought the eight was jaded after Saturday’s performance. COMPLAINT “it complacently sat on its 1 big win on the first day.' Then, too, the course was affected by the wake of spectator craft, and this is something we do not have to put up with in New Zealand,” Mr Wrathall said. “J complained to the regatta control, and they reassured me that the drivers

I of boats accompanying race* were experienced men. The complaints were all to no avail, and the broken water affected ail rhe crews." As the quadruple scull* was not included on the Hanover programme. the New Zealand crews had to be content to row in the. double sculls event. They had a first and second on Saturday and a first placing on Sunday The coxless four was the best New Zealand crew at the regatta. It pressed the West German national club crew from Dortmund, which) had so easily beaten it two weeks before. After the Duisburg loss. G R. F. McAuley. I U. Sutherland — who has two older; brothers with Marlborough Rugby fame — R. L. Robinson. and D. F. Lindstrom.! knuckled down to their training in no small fashion. That Saturday’s close second was no flash. in the pan was proved on Sunday

when the New Zealandafter once again getting i bad siart when thi-v list • length, got back into it i ! finish less than hall a s<< i behind the German <'!);■. pirns. regarded as a g medal prospect Tne coach of the cox ■- four. Mi 1 Reid, was a h.u - man at (he local pub ii ; • Bavarian village of i t • hausen, where the pa: stopped off on its wa\ through to Switzerland •■'l'he tour's times ha\r come down to what we w.-til 1 expect at the world ch., pionships, and 1 hope that m can improve it stiil further, he said “On both days they we:left at the start because th are not used t-> the qua send-off here When we get (hem in Lucerne, where lint ate allowed to settle d>wn first, they will be a lot better off for it.” The headquarters of tin' New Zealand party "-ill be at Furigen. near Lucerne