SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 12 February 1913, Page 8

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP

ARNST AND BARRY(Press Association. —Copyright.) - (Kec. 10.55 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Arnst's backer agreeing, he has withdrawn'his deposit of £IOO for a match withßarry. •Aerial- polo has been tried ip New York. - It is played by women on horseback with a small toy" ballcon and tenns racquets. ( .According to an official estimate, the-e are more than 45,000,000 sheep in .New South Wales, and over 3,000,000 he-id ofcattle. i ANew Orleans surgeon is. suing h. mil- ] lio'naire for £SCOO for an operation fori appeudictis •which took two minutes to 'perform. 'iast week a bishop the Church of EnMand, easily identified by his athletic %uild/ prime of life vigour, and the pUTpIe stock of a high Church dignitary; sought relief from the sultry corir ditions in the surf at Bcndi. From the dressing sheds, he emerged on the sands iii'-a, smart Canadian costume of blue, slashed with white. Entering the surf ■vyhere hundreds -of men and maidens were disporting themselves, he breasted the "waves'and shot the, breakers as if he * was well.used to-that sort of thing. The; ■-'news spread rapidly in -the surf, and many hugely enjoy-d the novel experience of rubbing shci-kTers with a rsal bishop out of his garb. The dignitary was Eishcp Long, rf Bathurst. Asked op Thursday concerning h:s impressions cf the Austi'3.ian surf, he stated that the r. rev ior.s dcy was practically his first 3*d rience as a surfer, though he hr-d b?en well accustomed to the'"water in England and. in Victoria. He acknowledged" that he was an adept at shooting the breakers, and that he wjas a good l rwimmer. The Sydney "Sun" adds: —"It may new be accepted, that mixed bathing" h 3« received the official sanction of the Church. One of these 3avs. perhaps, the surfers at Bondi or "Manly will welcome the Australian surf baptism of Archbishop Kelly, divested of his red cassock and brretta, and attired in' a well-regulated bathing costuine of green line and modest cut. '