FROM CYCLIST TO SCULLER
a " I rHck L An,Bfc > rf Canterbury, who won the Sydney Thousand in Marchlast « the 7oyds mark, has definitely retired from the cycling world. He reached Sydney last week and m announcing this decision said: Tve had enough of it> both on track and road. I am going to try and win the scuffing championship of the world, and I cannot train for cychng and sculling too. I've made up my inind to win the world's sculling championship, and with that end in view have come across to put in twelve months' training on the Parramatta River with George Towns to coach ma. Twelve months hence 111 challenge the holder of the world's "chaippionghip, whoever he may be." Arnst, in hia practice iu an outrigger in this colony, shaped so well that a Christchurch syndicate took-him in band, and are paying the whole of hia expenses in connection whh the proposal to challenge for the world's scuffing championship.
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Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 2
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162FROM CYCLIST TO SCULLER Evening Star, Issue 12872, 23 July 1906, Page 2
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