ROWING

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17203, 8 March 1930, Page 16

ROWING

COLLEY AND CO. SHIELD NEXT WEEK’S REGATTA The last of the shields available for inter club competition will he disposed of on Saturday next, when a series of four double-sculling races will he rowed on the Wairoa River. The competition promises to he most interesting, and given good weather the regatta should attract much attention from Lhe public of Wairoa.

The representative pairs of the respective clubs have been training assiduously for some time, and in each of the four divisions of the shield regatta there should be. sterling racing. Last year Wairoa won the Colley and Go. Shield, taking two out of the lour classes, while Gisborne and Poverty Lay clubs secured one class each. A good deal of interest will attach to the senior division this year, for G. Forbes and K. Hanna, who have won two years in succession, are still available to represent the Gisborne club, and belli the other clubs will make, determined efforts to wrest tile honors from them on this occasion. The particular importance of the senior race, apart fiom the fact that it represents the real supremacy of the East Coast A.R.A. district in double-sculling, is due to its points value in the competition, three points being awarded for a senior win, as against two points for a win in each of the other classes. A club winning thc_ senior event needs only to win one other class to he certain of victory in the shield competition.

GISBORNE ROWING CLUB

REMAINING GLUE EVENTS

Racing in the double-sculling competition for members of the Gisborne chib m connection with the A. J. Cox cup, was to commence Ibis afternoon on the Taruherui River, over a course of threequarters of a mile. This event is conducted on a handicap basis, and is one of the most popular events of the club programme in each season. Following tins series, there v ill be two singlesculling events, one for novices and one open io all club members, those also being on a handicap basis; the novico sculling races are to he commenced on March 21. and the open series for the Buscko Gup on March 24. Practice fbr these events can he carried on at the same time as practice for the four-oar series, and it has been decided to call nominations for the President s hours, the principal event of the season, to close on Thursday next. Crews will ho picked the same evening, and a threeweek interval will le allowed for the training of crews, the races being set. down for April 7. It is honed that the entry for flic President’s Fours in particular will he representative of the full membership of the club. Handicaps for the Cox Gup doublesculling races, together with the draw for the series, were fixed a! last night s meeting of tlm executive as under: Coates and .Knox ssec. row dcGosta and Allan ssoc.; Li m e and Zaehni'iah 9see. row Forties and Hanna scr. : Honan and Brosnalian 12sec. row Armstrong and Egan 16sec ; .; Kennedy end Brown 4sec. row Anderson and ‘Stevenson Usee. : Unit and Horne User, row Slmltz and Seymour lOseo. : Morrison and Roddick lSsec. row Sloan and Soderston 11sec.; (loffe and W'mlbnrlm- ssoe. row WondCarey and Dandy 9sec.; Hunter and Carey lhsec. row King and Rawlings 9soc.