WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

Grey River Argus, 1 September 1927, Page 5

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.

? IN SCULLING. Goodsell and Barry Row on Monday. (Received August 31 at 5.5 y m , , VANCOUVER, August 30. With the course charted, the buoys set and two steamers aud three official launches chartered, all the preliminaries have been completed for the Goodsell v. Barry Championship Scullmg Ba?e on sth September. The course is one of three miles on the andtocked waters pf Burrard Inlet,

known as Vancouver Harbour. Starting opposite Barnet Mill Burner, which is nine miles due east of Vancouver City, the scullers go eastwards of Dead Centre Inlet, finishing opposite Port Moody Sawmill Town. The inlet is half a mile to a mile ,'vfcde, with mountains skirting its northern bank, enabling thousands to get a perfect view of the race gratis. Both oarsmen have been practising daily, easing off as the date approaches.

Major Goodsell, the Australian, is openly confident. He states his willingness to let all the earnings of the cinema rights go to the winner, when such a. proposal was unofficially mooted. Barry is modest and silent. To day Barry covered the course in the fastest pace yet, using for the first time a new twenty-six pound shell, made by Simms, of England, from the model used by Ernest Barry, Bert’s uncle. Fresh winds and rain threat.ui, and at present the barometer is falling. The stakes are 2500 dollars a side.