SCULLING CONTEST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19730, 1 September 1927, Page 9

SCULLING CONTEST.

DESCRIPTION! OF COURSE. GOODSELL FEELS CONFIDENT. A. and N.Z. VANCOUVER, Aug. 30. All the preliminary arrangements have been completed for the sculling race for the world's championship between the holder, Major Goodsell, of Australia, and Barry, his English challenger, which will take place on September 5, at 2.30 p.m. The course has been charted and buoys j set. Two steamers and three official launches have been chartered. The course is three miles long, on the land-locked waters of Burrard Inlet, which is also known as Vancouver Harbour. The starting-post is opposite the Barnet Mill burner, which is nine miles due east of Vancouver City. The scullers will row eastwards in the dead centre of the inlet, and will finish opposite Port Moody, a sawmillirig town. The inlet is half a mile to a mile .wide with mountains skirting its northern bank. Thousands of people will be able to get a perfect view of the race for nothing Both men are practising daily, but are easing or? as the date for the race approaches. Goodsell is openly confident, and stated his willingness |to let all the earnings from the cinema fijm of the race go to the winner, when this proposal was unofficially mooted. Barry is modest and silent. To-day ho covered the course at his fastest pace so far, when he used for the first time the new ' 261b' rowing shell which was made by Simms, the well-known English boatbuilder, from a model used by a former champion, Ernest Barry, his uncle. There are winds and rain at present, and the barometer is falling. The race will be rowed for a stake of £SOO a-side.