SCULLING.
NEXT SATURDAY'S TUSSLE
, FINAL PREPARATIONS
[press association.] (ReceivedJ^gQ.Wl.m.^ Webb will have the services of Jack Mitchell in the last week's training tpr the sculling championship. There is an impression that tne JNew Zealander has nob shown the public what he can really do m his boat. His supporters state that there will be plenty of money to back Webb. _ Towns is easing down in his training, as he is down to about the right Werfn a letter written from Sydney about a fortnight ago by D. Barnett, trainer of Webb, the writer says: — " We are all in the best of health, and Webb is in tip top nick, not too tar forward, bub just ready for the nnal preparation. That, means he will have to do more running, besides.extra fast work on the river. • Towns is out morning and night with his brother and Fogwell pacing him in a double sculler. My. opinion is that, the way they are trying to drag Jum alon" he stands a chance of getting stale before the race. He is anything but a clean sculler. . . Webb has altered his style a bit, and it is an improvement ' which will make him faster. Jim Stanbury has been over giving him plenty, of sound and -good Points in sculling, besides showing nun how to scull his boat- comfortably. He is ever so/much improved, and you will noticethe difference.when you see nim rowing again. . .; . The members- of this rowing club where we stop can t do enough for us, and we have everything of the best. Wehb won't get run down; he has a bigger 1 chest measurement now (40iin), and strips at list lib. He will row at aboilt list. J
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 177, 29 July 1907, Page 8
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286SCULLING. Marlborough Express, Volume XLI, Issue 177, 29 July 1907, Page 8
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