SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 3 June 1907, Page 5

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

TOWNS' REFUSAL TO ROW

BARRY.. ORDERED TO SURRENDER GUP. I By Telegraph.— Tm*» Association Copyright. A :';;"'. ■ Losoox, May 31. : I The trustees of the Sportsman's Cup have decided that George Towns, of Sj : Sydney, has forfeited the trophy: for cot complying with the conditions in a jrespect to Barry's challenge, jjnd if have requested him to return the • cup..". . / ~ ■ ' - (Received Jane 2, 4.36 p.m.) .. ' Stdnet, June 2. George Town* says he is annoyed id th» n action of the Sportsman Cup trustees in l * calling upon him to return the cup. He * says he has not been property notified of d j Barry's challenge, either by the trustees or tl the challenger. His knowledge of it cam* 1C from the newspaper*, and be had cabled » 8 Home practically accepting for next year. Ie He had al*> written explaining the position. Had it not been tor the race be-t-jtween bis brothei Charlie and Webb ho >| would have gone Home straight away to "*|meet Barry. ~. * ><>■■' ■■■._ _ * Towns adds that the action of the trustees * will upset the whole of his arrangements for the visit of himself and brother to England. ■« Tom Sullivan, who has the custody of the £ cup, can hand it over if he likes, but it the ]. trustees demand it he will forfeit the trophy, it and neither ho nor his brother will ever at- ** tempt to regain it. He has not received a l' challenge for the cup since he left England «- in 1902, and believes that the trustees are 't annoyed because a message received in Eng* ]] land, and purporting to coma from him, ?r stipulated that a race should be arranged for d- his brother Charlie, for the championship of 3 ' the world, when ho (George) went to row l," for the cup. it- " .-' ~~ ————_-»_— ir ,11 Tito Sportsman's Cup was- established in 1876, and it has been held by R. W. Boyd, r, J. Higgins, W. Elliott, Hanlsn, and other ig scullers-, until it finally reached the hands o- of Towns. » .;. " "" -—••—,