ROWING.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 9

ROWING.

1 ... ■ (By Mercury.)

—l'"og-\voll has '; accepted ' Thoroughgood's challenge to row 'fm\... ilie championsmp .of Australia. ...Fogwell wants • to'" race'on .the Parramatta or tho Richmond, but Thoroughgood, stipxilates tlio Hunter. , - • : Fogweil has covered : Thoroughgpod' 8-' deposit to race for the Australasian Sculling. Championship oil the 'River.' Commenting on " Victor"; of tho •".Wanganui Herald" ; writes':—VSinco'' Hho' •title has been handed'to <Thoroughgood he can insist on tho race being; rowed on the Hunter River, and doubtless will' do so, as it will bo to his advantage since lie has dono most of his - rowing' thereon. Fogwell is some 13. years' younger' than Thoroughgood, who is a very big rawboned man of about .38 years of age. - He is by no means a stylish, rower, but■ ho is-, immensely "strong.'.'He rowed two gpbd races against Charlie Towns" and then against '.Tresidder,cbut was beaten on each occasion though, only ; after, big .struggles. . Fogwell ,is ; . a'-' most..promising ■sculler,i with a 'really * good style'and ,the forthcoming contest will give him >a' chance to'provo his mottle, as Thoroughgood will be the toughest.proposition lie . has been I up.' against yet in a match race. Bick'Tresidder told me he reckoned Thoroughgood was "sure to beat Fogwell, but :thero-;aro mahy . good judges who think differently.!; ..However, ;jio ono kno,ws Thoroughgood's strength' • better jthan Dick,' so that- he ought-to be able to .judge fairly'accurately, as jo .tho merits of the two men. I incline to'tlio:opinion.that Fogwell will win ; certainly if he Thoi'oughgood.-ho is a long way from ifi'oinp:•as gooa as Webb, let .. alone . tho 'first (lighters' of whom .we -hear.:.'so much from our.Australian friends.' 1 •. • The expected has ocimo to. pass inasmuch' as Georgo Whelcli of ■ Akaroa-has decided to try : his luck in the professional arena. I ; presume lie will claim the. title of champion of New Zealand ..which has been vacant sinco-jVebb won the.world's champion-, ship. His intentions are "expressed in the -following' letter backer. Mr. iMartin 6. Daly, .' who"',: writes 'from Akaroa under date April 3"Some months ■ago R. Arnst wrote enquiring if he could get a;match on with Georgo Wlielch, but as Whelcli had' made up his-.mind 'not to enter the professional ranks until ".after tlio Amateur Championiship Eegatta'l'was over, nothing came of it'. However, on March' 2 last, I wrote to Arnst, "care of Tuck,' Wanganui,'' asking him if ho still wished to make a .match with Whelcli, to take..'place ''at Akaroa, say on or about Easter, but-so far I have received no reply. - I should be glad if you would give publicity, to tho -fact : that- : Whelcli is now willing -'anq-;anxious; to?make' a match with anyono in New' Zealand or Australia, the race,to be rowed at Akaroa. ? I am prepared to find the", necessary money, ;and Whelcli will row for"'any'"aiii'oufit, and any distance. It is Whelcli Y intention'to challenge Webb in due. course." , ■ Now that, the result of :.the 'Varsity Boat race is known particulars *'of ,v the : :personnel of the crews and tho weights of tho men" will :bo,of. interest.-. Tho wipning, crew is dealt with first:—Cambridge: x ..F. H. . Jerwood : (Jesus), (bow), list. Sib. ,Y2,vG; E.-Fairbairn (Jesus), 12st. ,11b.; 3, ,O.'A; Carver (First : Trinity), 12st. lUlb.; 4, J. .S. Burn (First Trinity), .12st. 91b.; 5, H. Gv Bayncs (First. ;Trinity), 14st. 3J-lb.; G, E-. ■ G.- Williams (Third Trinity), 13st. 2ilb.: 7,- E.- W. Powell (Third Trinity), list. Gib.; D. C. R. Stuart (Trinity Hall) (stroke),, list. 41b.R, Bovle (Trinity Hall) (cox), Bst. 81b._ Oxford:'J. R. Somors-Smith (Magdalen)', (bow), list, lib • 2. C. R. Cudmoro (Magdalen), list. 131b. 3, E. H. L. Southwell 1 (Mftgdiileh), 12st. BJlb.; 4,- A. E. Kitchin (St.- John's), 12-st. 7»}lb.; 5, A. G. Kir by (Magdalen), 13st. fllb.: 6, A. .0. .M'Cullooh (University),.l2st. . : 7lb. • ■7, H. 11. Barker (Christ 'Church), list! 121b.;. A.-'.C. , Gladstono ; (Christ Cluirch) (stroke), list. 61b.;-A. W; Dohkin (Magdalen) (cox), Bst. 81b.. Saturday's race was the sixfch-fith contest between- ■ tho-'-rcproscnta-.tives of tho two universities. Cambridge, who have won for three, years in succession, have now 30 victories to their credit; and Oxford 34,.tho"raco' in 1877 having resulted in a dead-heat.: