SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 3108, 29 December 1921, Page 5

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

I'TXAL DKPO.MTS PAID. (Per Press Association.) WANGAjNI’i. Dec. 29. The final deposit of £IOO aside were put ip the Herald office this morning m conneclion with the sculling championship. 11i.tllield's was paid in hy one oi his supporters, while Ariel cycled down from his camp and pa it lin Ids cwu cluMpm. 1m champion is looking lit and did a fast two and a half miles row yesterday. 1 his amriniini he mten.is lo lake mailers easy Ike snpp.irlers ot lladlicld arc very (M.nhdeiil, hui die balance of .pinion here seems lo ho in favour of Ariel. .Mr .), 11. Parker, of ('hrlslchurch, one of Dick Ariel’s original hackers, has returned from a veil lo "Australia, in order to see die Ariel liadlleld race on the Wanganui river in dm first week in January, i-speak-ing about .sculling, -Mr Parker said that Ariel was a wonder at gelling buck to foirn. and now dial he seemed lo he in fettle m‘ should he a hard man to heal, if tlmre was a rival to A rust in Australia it was James Paddon, who was a bigger man Imm Artist, was considerably younger, and mid been a waterman all Ids life. A meeting between diem should resell in a great rare. Mr Parker learned in Sydney dial it Arnsl beat 1 ladlield a challenge would lie at once issued by Paddon. Tim kilter sculler beat \rnsl when he met him on die 1 arramaiia a <-oiij»lo of years ago, bin on that (mmitsion i' was si.id that Arnsl was not in the best of health.