SCULLING BOOM.
;■■.•■■• Brisbane, .se»i. n. A big crowd .watched t-hft beat* of the iinsbane- handicap, worth £350 over about a- two-mile corirse, on the Brisbane n / el> v! n hich lef » din ff scullers competed, lhe first lieat proved an easy task i? r ,*. elton » HoDevitt being second! and C. Messenger third. Time, 20.50. . ' The second heat was won by Ghristeneen (Queensland), with C.- Xlatterson. second and Short third.. Ernest Barry, from, swatch, only- 'managed! to get fourth place, twelve lengths behind Short, Time, 18.42. In the third heat Dick Arnst camo first, with Ripley second, and West third, Towns being fourth. Arnst, with long, powerful strokes, steadily wore down the earlier starters, getting m front m. the last .half-mile, and winning comfortably. Time; 17.26^ — U.P.A.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15317, 13 September 1920, Page 9
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