THE MEN.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 79, 5 April 1910, Page 4

THE MEN.

THE BURLY ARNST. Arnat's record in recent times i&rnore than a? twice-told tale. When once he struck rowing form, after forsaking the cycling track for th 9 water, he has demolished all opposition for the sculling supremacy. Larly in 1908 he looked in vain in Australia for men to measure blades with him. Backers could not be found to find a purse for a "fancy" against the solid lourt-een-btoner. He was looking in the Commonwealth and the Dominion for sculling business, and eventually came the encounter with Webb, on the Wanganui River, in December, 1903. Arnst easily won in 19min 52sec, and in June of last year t he again proved that he was in a I class above Webb, by vanqui&hing the challenger in 18min Issec (record time for the 35-mile championship course). In the handicaps at Wanganui last January, in which Wheich did not take part, Arnst. easily triumphed. In the final heat he had* "Webb and Hagney to beat, and he comfortably finished welt ahead of them. WHELCH. The challenger (thirty-one years), older than the champion, is comparatively a minor man, physically, but he is wiry and tough in fibre. He is credited with power to do forty-seven or forty-eight strokes a minute over a distance as cheerfully as Amst or Fogwell can do twenty -seven or twentyeight, but, of course, Arnst can put more weight into his work. When Wheich defeated Fogwell at Akaroa 011 Easter Monday 1909, he averaged foilyfive for the courpe (about 3g miles), in time clocked at 20m in 27sec by Arnst. No official time was taken. Whelch's achievements include the winning of the amateur and professional championships of New Zealand. Before he was twentyone years of age his record was twentytwo wins out of twenty-three starts. He beat Webb in 1905 for the single-scull-ing championship of New Zealand. Next yea-r Webb had his revenge, but it was pleaded for Whelcb that a passing steamer interfered with his chances. Akaroa's representative has performed in fifty-six regatta races, of all kinds, and his record is — forty-six firsts, seven seconds. In only three events he was unplaced.