ROWING

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 71, 17 December 1919, Page 7

ROWING

, On Saturday afternoon tho Star Boating Glut). rowed off tlic lieaLs of its Ladies' Fours. The races wwu rowed on the southerly coiuso lioni Fitzgerald's Point lo tile Taranaki Street Wnai'f, a distance-of. about half a mile. The water was rather lumpy for the last heat, tho wind having just changed, uit was perfect lor tho--second mm subseijuent Heats. In the first heat Ualvin vstr.), I'etre 1 (3). Markmann (2.1, and Stuart (bow), ivon by threeieetironi Dielil (str.), iioljlj (II), Shorlaud (2), and Blavall (-mwj. Gulvili's crew v,.-i-, a:,.)Uta lengt.i bsluiiii at Iho Clyde Quay Wiiarl, but oy a spurt established a lead of half a lengfn, wiiieii Ihey kept till Uie last twenty yards, when Die 111 managed to reduce it to a few I'eet. The second Ileal sa-.v Wnkelin (sir.), Herd (3), Carr (2), and Teviotdaie tboiv), beat Brown (str.), Emerson (3), Kilers (2). and Cat ley (bow') by six feet, brown's boat g|>t away well at, til-.' start, and Has leading l;y alioiil a length and a iialf at seventy yards from the iinish, when IJieir .\u. .! daubed" imdlv. Waltelln got a length's lead on tliis ( which lirown, in spite of an excellent spurt, was unable lo overhaul. In the next beat M'Grath (str.), Stolt (3), M'Kcuzio (2), and Anyon (how) beat (thorn (str.), Voting (3), Miles (2) ; and Gapes (bow) l-y a

;.hrlli will a. "half. Jtl'livatii led all'the way, ami had an easy victory. Olioru \v;is unloi'Uii::tto in iiial his.crow was changed at the. hut minute. Jn the bis! heat .Murr.U (sir.), Utmueliy l»). Sini (2), and Martin (how) heal .M : i.io\vaii (sir.), I'aigou I,;)), Jla it •:!). and Kllis .lmw), bv hall' « lonu'lli. Hnth thc.se crews had substitute strokes, as the. strokes drawn lMontgomery and Politick) were aiiscoi. M'Ciowan got tlie best til the start, lml was soon nverhnul"d by lluvrell, rowing a faster ;ind shorler stroke. The l-.-ail increased to a length al lil'ly yards from Hie iinisli, when .M'llowaii. siiarti.'ig : gamely, redneed it hy half. Hunt's new j wa: scratched. ' •• 'The drawing of Hie semi-finals resulted ; in Muvreli v jt'llrulh and (.lalvin v. Wnlidin. The first of these wn< rowed tin Mtimlav evening; when M'dratli W-at Munell by a lcagih and a half, Lwllng all the war ,\ notieealiie tcatiuc of Hie races wa.s Iho bail steering- At leant three raws went lost through, th? Kurnenliue courses steered by the coxswains, ;