ROWING ITEMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIV, Issue 9167, 29 July 1890, Page 6

ROWING ITEMS.

The defeat of ex-amateur Kerr on the. Taira by Bubear shows (says an Australian' paper), that a first-class amateur is no match for a fourth-rate professional. , It is reported that there is a likelihood . of J. G. Kennedy, amateur Champion of, Australia, going to England for the pur-j pose of testing the abilities of the Home article. ■ A short time, ago (says the Sydney; Referee), Peter Kemp had an offer made to, him to go to the United States of America; and compete at the Duluth-Dolwick Regatta in Minnesota, which takes place on' the 21st to the 25th of this month. It was impossible for Kemp to get away on ac-; count of the International race. From all I can gather at present, however, there; will be a strong quartette of Australian oarsmen visiting the States ere long. The. combination will include Peter Kemp, Jim Stanbury, Chris Neilsen, and probably Jack M'Lean. , “ Trident ” writes in the Sydney Mail The London Referee has once more shown its dislike to Australians and all they do. : This time our sportsmen are ordered up for chastisement for some supposed wrong; done to O’Connor. The gentleman who' writes these bitter things about us came here some four years ago looking for re-: newed health, and for a time he seemed to benefit, as his opinions of Anstralia were not so hard for a long while afterwards.' However, he “ rounded ” on Hanlan, and! wrote him down very low, although before j that the Canadian had been all that was good and great. Kemp has always been 1 a great trouble to the writer referred to,: and particularly when he persisted ini winning races that the Referee thought it pure presumption on his part to row. Probably in a few weeks Stanbury will be rushed forward as a perfect wonder because be defeated O’Connor. However, we can l afford to regard these press criticisms as a' cause of amusement, and neither the Canadian will benefit nor Kemp lose by the sourness of “ Pendragon.” In the College boat race between Yale and Harvard on June 27, over tho Thames course at New London, Connecticut, Tale won by three lengths and a half, in 21min 29sec. . J. C. Gardner, strobe of the Cambridge University eight, and the finest amateur sculler in England/now that G. Niokalls,: of Oxford, has retired, won the Wingfield; Sculls,'an event which gives the winner the right to the Amateur Championship of England. The annual eight-oared race between the Yale University crew and the Atlanta Club crew took place at Newhaven. When the crews had finished half the course the Yale stroke broke his oar. To relieve the boat of his useless weight he leapt overboard, and was almost immediately picked up by, a boat. Meanwhile, the 'Sale boat shot ahead with its seven oarsmen, who worked so well that they came in at the finish 1 eight lengths ahead of the rival crew, amid enthusiastic cheers. ’ The final arrangements have been made'' for the National Regatta, which will be ; held at Putney on August 18 and 19. Thei races are open to watermen, landsmen/, professionals, and others of the United} Kingdom, the first prizes being as follows i' ‘ —Non-coxswain four-oars, .£100; pair-! oars, .£SO; scullers who'have never sculled! toe £SO a side, .£SO; apprentices, under! twenty-one years of age on August 4, coat,) badge, freedom and. £5 ; heavy four-oars,; . with coxswains, £4O, together with other! > prizes in each race at the discretion of the; . Committee. No competitor can , enter fori two four-oared or two sculling races, in the same regatta; and no one can enter ! twice for the same race. No amalgamation’ of North and South country crews will', be permitted. One spare man may be 1 entered for each four-oared crew. The! heavy four-oared boats must be built, in! not less than five straikes on each aide, and must carry a coxswain who shall weigh not less than Bst ; tho boats to be provided or approved by the Sub-committee.’, The entrance fees will be returnable to' each crew or competitor completing the, course. Any competitor or competitors i misbehaving in any way, or being party to ; any agreement, arrangement, or under-! standing not in accordance with straight-; forward competition, will be disqualified. ;