ROWING PROTEST

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21980, 26 March 1946, Page 8

ROWING PROTEST

NO UMPIRE IN LAUNCH COMMITTEE BLAMED WELLINGTON, March 2.1. "The eight-oar nice on Saturday was -i u'roet disappointment to the oarsmen, said Mi. A. A. Whiting. president of the New A cal anu Amateur Rowing Association. "Why didn't they have an umpire following in a launch to warn crews oil when they were getting clone?" he asked. "If. «f| f ' 1 ' warning, they still steered a wrong course, he could disqualify them there and then. "You can't umpire a race Horn a bank, particularly on a course like Oriental Kay. The committee which ran the regatta must he held responsible for fading to have a launch to do the ,ioh properly.” "We wore properly disQualiliccl and the crew that won should have been awarded the [ ace. It was for that reason that wo ret used to start when a re-row was decided upon. In these words the manager of the Canterlimy crew which competed in the inter-pro-vincial eights. Mr. !•'. H. Thompson, explniem! the Canterbury point of view of Ihe fiasco which marked the race at Wellington on Sa t - ui'day. , , Mnrlborouch had shared the Canterbury opinion, with the result that when Wellington heat Union (Wanganui) in the re-row it was regarded as a very hollow \ ictoi j.