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Southern Cross, Volume 14, Issue 30, 22 September 1906, Page 2

Where many American and Canadian, Dutch, and French eights have failed, a Belgian ci'ew has at last succeeded, and the Club Nautique de Gand will go down to posterity as the first foreign club to have its name enrolled as winners of the Blue Riband of the rowing world, the > 'Grand Challenge Cup at Henley, .which has been competed for since 1839. Thus the London Mail, which adds :—Our vaunted supremacy in all branches of sport is gradually being wrested from us. At cricket we are very little if at all better than the 'Australians, at Rugby football we have had to bow the knee to the New Zealander, and the recent Olympic games •at Athens showed that at both running and jumping the Americans and Canadians were our masters. We can put no wrestler into the field able to stand up against Hackenshmidt, the Russian Lion, and even at boxing our best men are unable to hold their own with the most famous American pugilists. In lawn tennis we are happily still invincible, but even at such a purely British sport I as swimming we find it difficult to j hofd our own with foreign competi- ( tors.