NOT IN PEARCE'S CLASS

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 12

NOT IN PEARCE'S CLASS

Jackson Et)en Failed To Stall Off Second-rate Scullers -:" , (By Cable— From. "N.Z. Truth's" Special Sydney :■.-. '. Representative). By winning tlie sculling championship of New South Wales on vSaturday afternoon, Bobbie Pearce showed that he undoubtedly is the' greatest sduller m the world to-day. This fact was admitted after the race" by such fine fudges as -Jim Stanbury, Harry Floyd and George Towns'.

THE New ; Zealander, "Gus."' Jackson, 11' who went to. Sydney under the . . care of Billy Webb, to." ascertain how, good an oarsman he really was, proved an absolute washout-r-in fact, by no stretch of the imagination 'did he demonstrate that he was a, waterman. ' •• .'.-.•■ '■■■• • ' ' ■ -■■'•■ >' ■'■ Jackson could neither master the tide nor the stiff nqr-eastei\ and be-. fore the first quarter-mile had been covered) he was left well astern, even *y. rmen , regarded as \ being mere when compared with iPearce. :. ; : ; \-. -.i:... ■':' '.-■.■■.':•• :V „ '-vV:'" The Olympic. champion won't as. he pleasedj the official verdict' being twenty lengths,' equivalent to 65secs. m jthe three-mile course oh. the Parramatta. ...•■. ■.•;."' " \ ■;•'. ■' o< ■;. '; ■■■'■■'■ ' : Pearce had everything m his favor. He drew the northern shore position, which sheltered him a good deal. Even if he had been on the . south side of the river, the result v would not have been any different • It was ex-New Zealander -"Allan Stewart who shot to the front at the start, but he did; hot hold. the..■advantage long, as Pearce went to the lead. The champion never' turned a hair.

He maintained an average of twentyfour strokes to the minute from start to finisn, wlaile Scott, who drew toy far the .worst ... position, rowed all out ; with ,; an.'/ average , ; of twenty-eight. Pearce cut the first mile out m 6mins. 3secs. He : , was .. flye lengths' .ahead of Scott, who was four lengths m front of Goulding,. while /Jackson was thirty, lengths. behind the leader m fourth' place. ' ': -'. •' ' ' ■ ' ; ' The positions never varied and the became a mere/ procession, Pearce sculling easily. ... .' Jackson was poor m the choppy : .-' v/ater, and his coach-made the ex- , ciise that he was : rowing with a '. strange paiC; of sculls, ' having smashed' his own on Friday during a trial. " ; - Jackson has :thuch to. learn before he: can even be classed a' ! first-grade : sculler.'/ ■.•..'.■'-:-■..■;. ■.''.''"'• '. , He is not even . .m the same street as 'r.bther great New Zealanders of tl^e past, such as Ernest Webb, Had'fiela or Harman. ; :'-,:■■ ■ ■ ; Pearce's : ; time ; was Zlriiins. 15secs. ' for'v the whole, distance.;Jackson appeared at ; the Balmain regatta on Boscing Day.-- •: '