SCULLING MATCH BETWEEN LAYCOCK AND BOYD
(Rbuter's Special.)
London, July July 3rd.
The sculling match between Laycock and Boyd, for £200 a side, was rowed on the Tecs to-day, and was won by Laycock by five lengths.
Elias C. Laycock is the well-known Sydney man, and Robert Watson Boyd hails from Middlosbro'. - (Several fruitless attempts were made to arrange a in -itch before an agreement was eventually arrived at. Laycock was anxious to have the match on the Thames, as ho had entered for the Sportsman's Challenge Cup, but as Boyd held out for the Tees, he gave way, and Boyd allowed him £50 for expenses. Tho course fixed upon is thruo miles and a-half long, and has only a single bond in it, about a mile and a-half from the start.
The road from Gore to Maudeville, says a contemporary, will have a different appearance about next Christmas to that it at present lias, inasmuch as there will then be about 1500 acres in crop in blocks on either side of the road. Tt' is a .significant fact that two years ago all this land was in the possession of theConipany, and was chiefly tussocks, and now it is from ("lore to Stony Creek (a distance of eight miles)— with the exception of about 'looo acres— all disposed of to practical and onergefcic fanners, who will, if . fortune and weather favour them, turn the soil to good account.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 21
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239SCULLING MATCH BETWEEN LAYCOCK AND BOYD Otago Witness, Issue 1598, 8 July 1882, Page 21
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