Rowing Notes.

Free Lance, Volume X, Issue 499, 22 January 1910, Page 10

Rowing Notes.

By Tingle.

THE elements could not have been kinder than to- roiwinig; men on the occasion of the local regatta last Saturday. A light southerly breeze, made the water on the town course all that could be though few of thei finishes were dote Sited: 063 thr °^ were hotly * Fours. Pictom, quickly demonstrated their' superiority by hind S vl ? far hl nmd. Their lead lent them spirit spi mts. they crossed the, line first. * • ■ *~.••■ The Senior Fours was a peculiar race should ;be ?l,i ? m f'^f? re tLe foremost S Ch P*telmrch. Union be£S satisfied to plug along steaaiv untl leached, where they came' upon.TS out ? P &*on,w.ere S ooS out of it, and the Star coxswain took InxTcT We £ a distant S tlnough rougher water than, the other crewsi facedL Wanganui Union and Chraetchuimh Union had a tussle tor honours, # the former triumphing? dilcSy. W ° n JUDi ° r Pairs Just before tlhe Senior Double Sculls visited the skid®, and succeeded in WW about a foot off the stem of tar Tp lu ? s best-and-best doublescullcr. Dowland and Turnbull, who X?+if at l' d + l n • tK * bo **< were thereby cheated of their chance of cairying the Star colours to victory. wSS the evenj> started, Wanga4i went to S«rf an i although closely a ™ of Wanganui, won the Youths' JFours by a length from Petone. Stars had to substitute am indisposed member of their crew at the last moment, and would have run into secom place had the distance been a little Maiden Double Scull® went to Onristchurch Union, with Star second. Wangan/ui Union got home hailf-a-length ahead of Stars in the Senior Pairs. Canterbury went off at a good pace and led for nearly half-a-imle fcut they could not withstand the at"tacks of their challengers. .Picton 1. ChTiistchuroh Unioni 2 Wamgaarui Union 3, was the oirder of ™™g in-. the ( Junior- 'Fours. Stars and Wellington finished poorly, the ■latter having the advantage. The Single Sculling Race did not provide much interest for on-lookers on account of Marshall's disqualification on a foul after having, beaten theWanganui Union man Christiansen, by eight lengths. ■ _■ ChTistchurch Union appropriated the Madden Pairs, with Star second, and Canterbury third. Joe Stansell and Stara Butt never had .to work so 'd for a second place as they did on this occasion. ' * * . ' *' • + Taben from a general •standpoint,, the officials cara-ied out their tasks to the l satisfaction of contestants and "the public. "There is a happy land," and Felton. of Foxton fame. ; nearly reached lt \ . After fle na d raced- with such spirit in the Foxton handicaps, he was introduced to the pa, and the natives became enthusiastic, and desired to make a chief of him, but he thought it behoved him to depart before he became bound over. , After their smash-up on Saturday'. it was feared that Dowland and Turnbull would be unable to' take part in the championships on Monday, 24th. The Wellington!. Rowing Club have been kind enough to lend their double-scull-er to Dowland. and it is hoped that he will do well in it. .-""■;-. r ' : '