SCULLING.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 September 1927, Page 1

SCULLING.

GOODSELL AND BARRY ROW ON MONDAY. (Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) VANCOUVER, August 30. With tho course charted the bouys set, and two steamers and three official launches chartered, all the preliminaries have been completed for tho Goodsell v. Barry Championship Sculling Race on September sth. The course is one of three miles on the landlocked waters of Burrard Inlet, known as Vancouver Harbour. Starting opposite Barnet Mill Burlier, which is nine miles due east oi Vancouver City, tho sculi’ers go eastwards of Dead Centre Inlet, finishing opposite Port Moody Sawmill Town. The inlet is half a mile to a mile wide with mountains skirting- its northern bank, enabling thousands to get a perfect view of tho race gratis. Both oarsmen have been practising daily easing off as the date approaches. Major Goodsell, tho Australian, is openly confident. He states his willingness to let, all tho 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 threaten and at present the barometer is falling. The stakes are 2500 dollars a side.