ROWING

Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 117, 9 February 1924, Page 18

ROWING

The New Zealand championship regatta is to be held at Ricton on Tuesday. Wellington and Wanganui will be strongly represented. The local crews are very fit, and the racing should be keen. It was unfortunate that the lc tot jo Club protested in the Mothes Shield regatta last Saturday afternoon. It was a bad ending to a fine afternoon's sport. The Well-ngton Club are to be congratulated in carrying <ff the shield in spite of the protest. The shield has. now been in existence for four vears, and the Wellington Club have won it on three occasions. The Star Club were handicapped in the single sculls in having an inferior boat. A promising southern oarsman is A. Joy, of the Cure Boating Uub, Kaiapoi. Ho was successful in winning the youths’ double sculls and the panoar at the Christchurch regatta recently, and at the Redcliffs fixture, earlier' in the season, he von the double sculls. Joy has had a fairly successful rowing career, and last year he secured the Cleary Shield for single sculls at Lyttelton, In the hands, of a good coach he no doubt would improve wonderfully (says a southern writer), and prove a -..ti1l gieater asset to his club. The following crews will represent the Canterbury Chib at the championship regatta on Tuesday:— Champion Fours—F. H. Brown, E. Beaven, T. I’. Godfrey, and R. A. Moreau. * Marlborough Plate —F. H. Brown, E. Beaven, T. P. Godfrey, and R. A. Morgan. . Champion Pairs—C. G. Farrow and F. J. Stewart. Champion Sculls—C. G. Farrow and F. J. Stewart. Junior Fours—J. H. A. Moore, I*. W. M. Cowlishaw, T. F. M. Gibson, and A. K. Johnson. • At the conference of inter-State rowing representatives held in MelIxiurne recently it was decided that A. Bull should bo selected to represent Australia as sculler at the Olympic Games, but AV. Robertson, the present New South Wales amateur champion, was given the right to challenge him to a test race, to be held over the Olympic distance, in Sydney, and in the event of Robinson winning such test race he was to be accepted as the Australian representative. As Robertson has intimated that it is not his intention to challenge Bull, the latter will be included in the team; which will represent Australia- Bull is the present Australian champion, and although ho has not been sculling for a great number of years, he has had a remarkably successful career. Ho has won two State championships and two Australian championships. He did not compete in the last State championship as he had been advised to take a rest in v'ew of the possibility of his selection for the'Olympic Games.