SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 6745, 17 February 1909, Page 2

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIPS

PEARCE'S DEPOSIT NOT COVERED. In regard to the oroposed PearceThorough;»ood match for the sculling championship of Australia, the question is being discussed as to whether the present chamoion will have to forfeit his rijkt to the title by not covering Pen ice's deposit for the match( says the Sydney;"Daily Telegraph"). Pearce's doposit has been up nearly a month now, and there is still no signs of Thoroughgood coming forward to cover it. He himself admits that he is having a hard task ...in collecting his stake, and it is doubtful if he Will bo able to provide it in the time that is allowed in the championship.articles. • According to the articles governing a race for tho title, it seems that unless the holder of the championship covers any deposit for a match against, him within three months from the time it it," lodged, the ■ title , must be forfeited ts the challenger. Whether this will be the case with ThOrough<;cod or not it is hard to say, as there is always a chan.ee, even up till the last day, for the deposit to be covered. HAGNEY AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP. Hngney, the cyclist-sculler, has been making such rapid progress m his work that many sculling veterans- who have been down to see him rowing have been genuinely surprised at the form he has displayed, and the was' in which he has handled the Club and Gladstone skiffs. With scarcely three weeks, gone, he is looking round for an outrigger to start the real work, andd commence to pick up some ground in his chase after the championship of the world. Harry Pcaree, Haghey's coach and tutor, .expresses himself, as .beins greatly surprised at his charge's improvement. "He has astounded mo," Pearce says, "and a good maiiy others, too, who have seen him, and I think that when he comes to grips with Arnst he will, give a very creditable account of himself. After all, I think that Haghey will not have such an. nphill task as we at first imagined, and before lons I will get him matched with-some of our secondraters here, and then.' look for better material. I forecast a very successful future for Haguey, and think that he will be somewhere at tho top of the ladder in. no time." d ' -