ROWING.

Evening Star, Issue 15140, 24 March 1913, Page 9

ROWING.

QUEENSTOWN REGATTA. Though the. wind dropped at Queenstown. on Saturday, it freshened again, and the course became very rough after two or three of the events had been decided. The result .was that most of,the pair-oared and donble : Bculiing events hac} to bo rowed over a half-rnile course inside the harbor. The entries confuted of a record, and were 12 in advance of those of last voir, when tho total was C 5 The following aro die concluding results: SENIOR DOUBLE SOULLS. lm. Port Chalmers Rowing Club (J. Glengarry, J. Thomson) 1 Otago Rowing Club (F. Langston, D. Ellison) ... 2 Invercargill Railway No. 1 3 _ Won by a length, after a strenuous race. The Railway protested, owing to heing fouled by North End, but the protest was dismissed. MAIDEN PAIRS, lm. Invercargill Railway No. 1 1 Oamaru Boating CI lib 2 Awarua Boating Club ... ... ... .., 3 A close finish. JUNIOR PAIRS, lm. North End Boating Club (G. S. Wilson, F. Murch) 1 Awarua Boating Club 2 Invercargill Railway No. 2 3 Won by a length and a-bail". SENIOR TAIRS. lm. Invercargill Railway 1 Otago Rowing Club (D. Ellison, j" Byrne)... 2 Port Chalmers also started, but retired early in the race, and Railway won ov about two feet from Otago alter a race. ° The course by 4.50 p.m. wis um routh to row the Lake Wakatipu Son.or r-'-.ir oaied Championship or the Junior Fours, ,v, d both events were postponed until 6 p.m., at which hour the course was, if anything, worse than.before. It was then decided to row both of the events mentioned early this morning. —This Morning's Events.— Our own correspondent wired to-day : The Junior and Senior Fours were rowed at 6.30 this morning, in good water. Results : JUNIOR FOURS, lm. Oamaru Boating Club (Orr, F. Jonep, Ross, Drennan) 1 N.E.B.C. (Wilson, Murch, Purvis, and Knox) 2 Awarua Boating Club 5 Invercargill R.C. and P.C.R.C. did not start. Otago and Invercargill Railway soon dropped to the rear, but there was a good race with the other three boats. The steering of Awarua was erratic, and this lost them the race. Oamaru won by a length. Time, 7min 2sec. LAKE WAKATIPU SENIOR FOUROARED CHAMPIONSHIP. l£m. Oamaru Boating Club (Orr, F. Jones, Ross, Drennan) ' 1 P.C.R.C. (Glengarry,Mason,Thomson,, Hoskins) ' 2 Invercargill Railway 3 Awarua Boating Club did not start. No. 3 in the Otago crew lost his poppet string after a few strokes, which put them out of the race. Port Chalmers seemed to have the race well in hand till within a chain or so from the winning post, when Oamaru put in a challenge, and won by two lengths. Port's third man gave out, which mostly accounted for the crew losing the race. Railway were about three lengths behind, third. Time, lOmin 52sec. The regatta on the whole was very successful, and rowing men generally are well pleased. Oamaru's double win this morning was a popular one. Everything went without a hitch. The Otago Rowing Association's officials—the umpire (Mr Wilson), the starter (Mr Galbraith), and the judge (Mr M. Priest)— carried but their duties, admirably, as did the local officials. Mr Hugh Mackenzie placed his launch at the disposal of the committee. CHAMPIONSHIP. REGATTA. The weather was very changeable for the regatta at Wellington on Saturday. For the first race the sea was choppy," but the wind then moderated, but about 4.50 itswung round to the south and made racing impossible. It was then decided to abandon the last two events, the Maiden Pairs 'and the Senior Fours. Through a misunderstanding, however, the former was rowed, but was afterwards declared no race. The following concludes our report: Maiden . Double Sculls : Union RowingClub (Christchurch) 1, Star Boating Club Kawatiri Rowing Club 3. Youths' Fours: Union Rowing Club (Christchurch') 1, Wanganui Rowing Club 2, Blenheim 3. Champion Double Sculls; Akaroa Rowing Club 1, Wanganui Rowing Club 2, St. George's Rowing Club (Auckland) 3. Junior Clinker Fours: Wanganui Boating Club 1, Kawatiri Rowing Club 2, Canterbury Rowing -Club 3. Champion Pairs: Union Boating Club (Wanganui) 1, Akaroa Rowing Club 2, Wellington Rowing Club 3. NEW ZEALAND ROWING ASSOCIATION. A special meeting of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association was held at Wellington on Saturday night to consider reinstatements and alterations to the rule* An application to reinstate N. A. Christiansen (Wanganui Union Club) was an. proved, and a similar application from T Davis (North Shore, Auckland) was refused A proposal by the council to add the words m any branch, of athletic sp,* t" to clauses a and b of the "definition of amateur in rule lof the constitution was lost As a result of this rejection a number of other projected amendments of the rules were withdrawn.