OTAGO OARSMEN

Evening Star, Issue 19386, 21 October 1926, Page 9

OTAGO OARSMEN

LETTER FROM AUSTRALIA BIG RAGE OH SATURDAY The Otago Rowing Club’s senior four, champions of New Zealand, will take part in the big race at the Henley-on-Yarra regatta at Melbourne on Saturday, and all sporting enthusiasts will on Saturday evening be eagerly awaiting the result. Arrangements have been made for a cable to bo sent immediately after the rasa, and the news will be posted on the window of Mr Jacobs, tobacconist. It should arrive about 6 o’clock. In a letter written on October 12, the manager of the crew (Mr P. S. Anderson) states that its members arrived at Melbourne by the s.s. Manuka on Sunday, October 10, after a really good trip. “ Most of us, except Mick Brough, were shaken up a little for the first few days,” he writes, " but we did not lose any chance to eat. . . By the time we were duo to leave the ship we were all ‘ at home.’ “ On arrival wo were met by the sporting enthusiasts, who saw safely to our quarters in South Melbourne. They were too far away from the river, however, and wo shifted to the Britannia Hotel. Tho secretary of tho Henley has been very good to us, and we have been given every assistance. “ We got our boat off tho Manuka on Monday, after a lot of trouble with the Customs. We had it all rigged up in the afternoon. We had our first spin to-day (October 12), and another in tho afternoon. Tho boys are all fit and well, and from what we have seen and hoard we are hopeful. We will get ‘ stuck into it 1 properly now we are safely settled in suitable quarters. Kind regards to aP friends of tho crow.”