SCULLING.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXI, Issue 48, 27 February 1911, Page 7

SCULLING.

DAY AND HAGNEY. By TelcgTapli.— Press Association.— Copyright. SYDNEY, 25th February. The sculling match on the Parramatta River for £50 a-side, between Frank Hagney and George Day, resulted in a hollow win for Day, but the race was awarded to Hagney on a foul. A good race was witnessed to the threequarter-mile post, where Day had a length advantage. Day crossed, into Hagney's water. The latter, with a, spurt, made up the leeway, crashing into Day at; the mile.- Hagney claimed a foul and refused to go on, Day finishing a quarter of a mile to the good. W. Beach, the umpire, awarded Hagney the race. The time at the foul was 6mm 40sec. [A few days ago the Sydney Daily Telegraph remarked : — "So far as they (Hagney and Day) are concerned, they welcome tho clcst* proxhnity of their ■ trial of skill and streng-th, as both are i practically ready for the tussle, and eager to see who is the better man. Hagney has had the longer course of training of the two, and declares himself to be fit in every way. He has gone through the period in first-class health all the time, and if he can keep X it he personally has little fear of the issue. Day, however, complains of nothing. He states he has had quite sufficient preparation, and by the day the race comes round he anticipates that he will be as well as ever he was, plus a. little ektra strength and stamina. There is no doubt that this event will draw a big gate. The contestants have never met before, and' the rivalry between them is so keen that something cut of the way is looked forward to. According to performances Hagney should lead Day to the mile, but what will happen after that is only a matter of speculation. It was after the mile in the race between Pearce- and Hagney that the latter broke down after holding the Australian champion to that point, but in Day's rapes with Pearce he held, his opponent all the way, and was only beaten by a small margin on each occasion. Working on that theory, a win, for Day might be looked forward to, but as the circumstances are entirely different, in that Hagney is a much improved sculler, with a great deal more stamina, while Day has also added to his speed and strength, nothing can. be forecasted with any degree of certainty. However, be the result what it may, the winner ■will be hailed as the hetter man, even by tho sculler that is defeated. "]