SCULLING

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 July 1913, Page 2

SCULLING

WORLD’S CHAMPION SHI P

LONDON. Julv 10,

Barry ami Pearce have finished hard work and practised starts at tip- stake boat Jyesterday. McVilly is pacing Pearce.

MATCH FOR WORLD CHAMPION SHIP. LONDON, Julv 18.

Pearce stales that he was never fitter. | He expects to lead for the start. Ho found the Thames less buoyant water and strange for a time, as lie prefers the suitor Parramatta, but is now accommodated to the change. •He does not anticipate any difficulty from the intricacies of the course. He appreciated the treatment and assistance received in England. There is little betting, Harry Pearce being slightly the favourite. Harry Pearce, the Australian sculler, who is to meet, Barry the world’s champion on .Monday, the 21st inst, writes from London as follows: — There is plenty of startling news from suffragette quarters, but beyond horseracing and billiards there is little life in the sporting world here just at present. Through the week we row during the afternoon, but on account of the number of boats on the water of a Saturday we have to get our work in during the morning. On Sundays we go out at 9.45 a.in., but the riversiders have “tumbled to the move,” and 1 by the time we get back to the shed there are generally about 1500 people standing around. I got all sorts of advice re the rigging of my “work,” but I have not been rowing 17 years to learn now what suits me best or which rigging I get the best results from; in fuct ) I will be well pleased if I can put up the I performance I did on July 29th, 1911. I Everything at present points to my reaching my top form, for although we are do- ! ing a full course daily I am still keeping [heavy, my weight being 13.11, while Ar- ! clue Priddle turns the scales at 12.12. The • camp is “all well,” and everybody is tellj ing me that I am looking well already. [ I am inclined to believe them, for I never felt better or more inclined to train, which you will admit is saying a lot for me. I have seen little or nothing of Barry of late i as he still does his training away up at the top of the course. Apart from the fact that he rows daily, we know nothing of his latest moves, but you can rest assured ho will be in good trim.