ROWING CHAMPIONSHIP
PEAR CE-PHELPS MATCH ARRANGED. (Received 10 a.m.) TORONTO, July 17. Bobby Pearce, the world’s amateur sculling champion, today signed a eontract to meet Ted Phelps, the world professional sculling champion, in a three-mile match race here on September 1, the winner to receive £IOOO. Pearce is guaranteed £SOO regardless of the result of the race which will be rowed on the Lake Ontario Canadian
National Regatta course. It was not the lure of the prizemoney, Pearce said, that was leading him into the professional ranks. “There is something in the blood which demands that I enter into further competition in an endeavour to attain the last remaining title open to mo. I just want to be able to pull down that regatta course just a little bit in front of Ted Phelps, whom I regard as a very great sculler.”
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Northern Advocate, 18 July 1933, Page 6
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