SCULLING CONTEST.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXII, Issue 26, 31 July 1911, Page 3

SCULLING CONTEST.

WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. RETAINED BY ARNST, (PEARCE MAKES A GALLANT ; STRUGGLE. By Telegraph,— Press Asßocia«on.«-Copyright. SYDNEY, 30th July. The race between Richard Arnst and Harry Pearce fot the sculling champion&hip of the World and £500 aside was rowed on Saturday afternoon on the Parramatta course (3 miles 300 yards) and resulted in favour of the New Zealander by four •lengths. The race was one of the most gruelling on record. The weather conditions were perfect —a. bright sun, smooth, water, and a westerly wind tight behind the scullers, who had the tide in their favour, CHALLENGER GETS A LEAD. Arnst won the toss ahd chose the inside course. The men got away well together, the champion rowing at 34 i-trokes lo the minute, and Pearce 37, Neither had «ny advantage for the first 200 yards, when Arnst, pulling close to Pearce, was forced to stop and low & stroke. This gave the challenger an advantage of a length, which he held to Uhrs Poiht, a mile from the starting place. The defender's mighty strokes then begSA to tell, and he etarv ed to gradually overhaul his opponent. He managed the corner badly, however, got into Pearce's water, and was* withiii an ace of colliding. Arnst had to stop Towing for a couple of strokes to allow Pearce 1 to draw ahead. Pearce kept on, thus Showing good sportsmanship", a», had to* stopped, Arnst must have collided and lost the TaCe on a foul. ARNST OVERHAULS HIS OPPONENT, After negotiating the Point. Dick bent his great »aek and settled down to a steady pull of about 28 strokes to the minute. Me overhauled bis opponent at h mile and a- half. Penrce was Towing a Mightly qoickw stroke, but had not the same power as the New Zealander. Once in front Arnst headed for home and towed like a machine, gaining steadily, until, at Cabarita, he led by six lengths. Pearce, undaunted, pulled magnificently, and tried repeated spufts, but the New Zealander was too powerful and kept driving on in heart-break-ing fashfcm, Rounding Putney, a few hundred yards from home, Arnst was leading by a. good ten lengths, He dropped to 22 strokes a. minute 1 there. Pearce looked* round and wavered, but. put in a last tremendous, though futile, effort. Without a doubt Arti&t was never mote fully extended. When he passed the post a winner by four lengths, he immediately stopped towing and dipped his hands, ons after the other, into the water. The fearful strain he had undergone was too much for the champion's condition, and caufeed him to Vomit. ! Pearce, in the last struggle, felt the agonising torture of defeat, Bhd when the pistol was fired be placed his hands before his face and sobbed. j

The time, 19min 46sec. » n record for the world's championship. The ty>n| milp was done in 6min 39sec. enormousTttendancr. rivals' opinions of this RACE. AfcNST "BOWS tFhE RACE 01- 111* T.IFE." The attendance wjm» easily n record one. Probably nearly 100,000 peopln were present, nnd the river was black with small craft. The takings amounted to £800. Pearce admits that Arnst is tongood for him, and says that he will jiot chal> lfenee again. Arnst declares that the rnco was the hardest of his hie. Beach, who held the championship in 1884-?, declares* that there ib nobdy, in eight who could beat Arnst.