SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. WEBB AND TRESIDDER.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 35, 11 February 1908, Page 8

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP. WEBB AND TRESIDDER.

[Bi Telegbaph. — Spegial to The Post.] WANGANUI, This Day. Those intending to visit Wanganui for tho boat race will be well advised to make arrangements for accommodation at once. The hotels and boardinghouses have already hud more applications for accommodation than they have ever had before, and it is certain that the town will be overcrowded during the race week. Those who can reach Wanganui the day before the raco will find it 'to thoir advantage to do so, providing they can secure accommodation, as it has' been decided, as an inducement to got people to go up the river early, to charge much less in the first lot of steamers than later on in tho day. If tho crush which is expected here materialises, then it is feared that numbers of later arrivals will not be able to get to the seeno unless they walk a distance of eight miles or so. However, in this connection, it may bo said that Messrs. Hiitrick and Tuck are making all possible, provision ' for transporting the visitors, and .they hope to cope with the traffic, as they will have eight steamers running all day. Yesterday Webb went up to the Kaiwhaiki c.im's ho and Green rowing up ih?r. h'crc they and the trainer (B.irnett) will remain until the day of the contest. To-day the champion had a, spin over the course with Greeir, but no attempt on record-breaking was made. Tremdder and Ford were out twicey nfeterddT, and again this morning, but dc\ 'nothing out of the ordinary, the cha Ilenger rowing between 25 and 26 to tho minute aver the last mile and a half this mornings in a free and confident style - . *Tb»s fact that Webb has taken a spell or tw o recently appeals to have frightened iV lew of his supporters, who imagined that all was- not well with him. Howot er, their fears mo groundless, as no man could be in better nick than the ehampiou is at the present time. His condition is well-night perfect, and if he is as we U when he steps into his boat then he will be fit to row the Tace of his life, as hr will do if necessary, barring accidents. "I'll bet you £o he will win — cash up!" ,">aid an old Maori woman yesterday to' a man who remarked that he thought Trveidder would prevail. She was very dia .oiiited when she found that her offer was declined. To-day fort .tight is the day fixed fpr the great struggle, which will mark an epoch in tlie liistory of owing in the Dominion. Ai. f \?ady both men are in splendid form, aaid their supporters are confident, s,o th *t the prospects of a. t stirring contest «'<i'e very bright.