TELEGRAMS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

"A GOOD, CLEAN, HONEST SPORT." ARNST AND HIS AIMS. A STATEMENT EXPLAINED. [IT TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THB POSI.I CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. Harry Floyd knows all the lowing champions, and has seen every big race in Australasia in the last twenty years. "Whelch." he said, "would be a good man in his own class, but was overpowered by Arnst to-day." The champion has asked me to set him right with the public over a little matter that has caused him a good deal of pain. Speaking at Wanganui he had said he would row wherevt-r most money offered. He was talking then, he said, of gate money, and meant that in selecting a couise for a match he would give preference to the locality where most people would see the race. Ho was in the game for sport as well as money, and did not want people to think, at they often did, that he was on the "make" all the time. Floyd put in the remark that if money had been Arnst't only consideration, he would never have been seen rowing on Akaroa Harbour. "Indeed," added the veteran, "Dick has let a lot of money ?o by him because he is a good sport, le has always gone out to win. By rowing in handicaps he has scared on lots of men who would otherwise have made profitable matches \vith him. People with the idea that Arnst is not a good, clean, honest {.port arc making a big blunder "