ROWING

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21828, 15 December 1932, Page 5

ROWING

By OtfTBIOQEB,

FIXTURES December 26.—Macandrew Bay regatta; Riverton regatta. January 2.—Bluff regatta. January 21.—Port Chalmers regatta. March 4.—Championship regatta (Wanga- *■ nui). To be fixed.—Eight-oar Interprovincial Championship (Wellington). Easter Saturday.—Queenstown regatta.

PORT CHALMERS REGATTA It required two meetings to raise sufficient enthusiasm to decide if it would be advisable to hold the Port Chalmers regatta this season. The second meeting, held on December 7, was fairly well attended, and after it had been decided to hold the regatta, most of the evening was spent in finding the right man to accept the office of chairman. It was only when he had visions ■of the regatta falling through altogether if he did not carry on that Mr W. J. Wilson again' accepted the office. Mr L. Neilson,was appointed secretary. The same programme of events held last year will take place this season. The date fixed for the regatta was Janu-ary-21. OTAGO CLUB During the week training has been somewhat hampered by the weather, a strong southerly wind making rowing very difficult. However, whenever suitable the crews have indulged in some hard training, although the youths’ crew could make an effort to get in more practice than at present. The members of this crew should make a point of being in attendance at the shed every night, and if the water is too rough they should indulge in' floor work or land training. If this were carried out the men would derive the benefit of their work when it comes to the last half-mile of the race at Macandrew Bay on Boxing Day. There have been two alterations in the crews for the Macandrew Bay regatta. In the junior crew C. Brown replaces G. Brough, who has been unable to train owing to overtime work. J. Petrie replaces H. M'Alpine as stroke of the second maiden crew. The second senior crew has been scratched owing to Brown going into the junior crew, hut it is hoped to have this crew in action after the Christmas regatta. PORT CHALMERS CLUB Several alterations have been made in the senior and junior crews to represent the Port Chalmers Club at the Macandrew Bay regatta. The crews will now be as follow:—Senior Four (No. I)—J. Solomon (str), H. Pritchard (3), C; Neilson (2), and G. Thorn (bow); Senior Four (No. 2) —H. Hill (str), L. Monson (3), E. Adams (2), C. Cramond (bow): Junior Fours (No. 1) —J, Anderson (str), C. Cramond (3), P. O’Brien (2), A. O’Brien (bow); Junior Four (No. 2) —W. Erridge (str), R. Cramond (3), W. Broadley; (2), E. Brown (bow); 'Senior Sculls fNo. 2) —C. Neilson- (str), L. Monson (bow); Maiden Scull (No. 1) —A. O’Brien (str), W. Erridge (bow); Maiden Scull (No. 2) —T. Lewis (str), W. Broadley (bow). QUEEN’S DRIVE CLUB During the past week very little "training has been done, owing to the exceptionally bad weather that prevailed. The club races for the Lady Mills Memorial Medals were arranged for last Saturday, but had to be abandoned because of the squally _ south-west wind and rough sea. There is little less than a- fortnight in which to prepare for the first regatta of the season, and club members are devoting_ as mud) time as possible to strict training.

CHAMPIONSHIP REGATTA The Wanganui Rowing Association intends to donate £135 as prize money for the championship regatta to be held at Wanganui, on March 4. " It wae decided at a recent meeting of the association •that as an incentive to each club to collect for the championship funds 10 per cent, of the required sum (£150); be divided among, the three qjubs in proportion to the amount collected by each; that any sum- over £l5O be divided equally among the three clubs and the association; and that a donation of £5 be given to the club whose queen wins the carnival competition. It was also reported at the meeting that a profit of £5 had'been shown on the first of a series of three dances held to raise funds for the’regatta. ■ MACANDREW BAY REGATTA . Eight races, the same as those on last season’s programme, will comprise the oarsmen’s contribution at the Macandrew Bay regatta on Boxing Day.’ Being unable to increase its donation, the Regatta Committee has offered £2O, which was also the figure given last year, and the money will .be distributed as follows: Youths’’Double .Sculls, £1 and 10b; Maiden Double Sculls, fl and 10s; Junior Double Sculls, £1 10s and 10s; Senior Double Sculls, £2 and 15s; Youths’ Fours, £1 10a and 10s; Maiden Fours, £1 and 10s; Junior Fours, £2 10e and 15s; Senior Fours, £3 10s and £l. Following are the;officials appointed to control,the.racing:—Messrs W. Robinson, S. G. Styche, W. Lysaght (judges), W. G. Glengarry (starter), E. A. Newman and timekeeper), and W. J. Wilson (N.Z;A.R.A. representative). GENERAL NOTES The Riverton oarsmen are training very hard at present, and should be to the fore at the forthcoming regattas. The youths are mostly novices as far as regatta racing j 8 concerned, but should improve. The maidens are shaping well, and all the juniors are showing good form. The club will be well represented in both sculls and pairs. ( Feet only separated the Wanganui Collegiate School and the Wanganui Technical College crewa when they raced over a mile course on the Wanganui River on the evening of November 30. Collegiate maintained a slight lead all the way, and with a splendid sprint , over the final 100 yards drew away from College to win by a length. The losers kept too far out in the middle of the river, thus getting into more dead water than their opponents, who steered a better course. It was a splendid race, and both crews rowed well. ; The Wanganui Collegiate crew will row Christ’s College to-day, and the Technical College will row the southern crew to-morrow.

The official opening of the St. George’s Rowing Club’s new boathouse at Auckland on December 3 will be long remembered iis .a red letter day in the club’s history. Many visitors, including numbers of oarsmen from Auckland c]ubs, were present. Since 1883 the St. George’s Club has occu. pied four clubhouses. The latest is located at Campbell’s Point. At a recent meeting of the Auckland Rowing Association the following notice of motion was received from the Auckland Rowing Club:—“That with a view to popularising senior rowing in New Zealand two subdivisions of the existing senior class be instituted, to be known as senior A and senior B, the latter status to be intermediate between junior and senior A.” This was referred to the Eights Committee to draw up conditions and submit same to the various clubs for consideration and report to the association. Members of the Auckland Police Force recently formed a sports club with a view to enabling them to compete in various branches of sport, including rowing, swimming, lawn tennis, cricket, shooting, and others. •'

A letter was received at the last council meeting of the New Zealand Rowing Association from the Avon Rowing Club, Christchurch, reporting that serious damage had been done to the pair-oar boat lent to the association for the Olympic Games and asking that a new. boat be supplied. Mr C. A. Healey, coach of the Olympic rowers, is to be asked for a report on the matter. England’s rowing decline is dealt with in a Berlin newspaper by Tom Sullivan, the old New Zealand and former English sculling champion, who has been coaching ■with success in Germany. In the opinion of Sullivan, England’s lost supremacy is due to the adoption of the "Fairbairn style.” He says there is a tendency in English rowing circles to return to " sound common sense," and forecasts that when the old, or classical style is again in favour English oarsmen will again become dangerous to their German rivals. The race for the women’s four-oared championship of Australia has been fixed to talce place at Hobart on March 25, provided that date is approved by the associations of the mainland States. The Buckingham Ladies’ Rowing Club, being the only active club in Tasmania, will control the event. Intimation. has been received at Hobart that crews from Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, and fiouth Australia will take part.