SCULLING TITLE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 141, 5 September 1927, Page 1

SCULLING TITLE

RACE AT VANCOUVER ENGLISHMAN’S CHALLENGE MATCH WITH M. GOODSELL By “RIGGER." A T 2.30 this afternoon, Vancouver ■*** time, Major Goodseil will row H. A. Barry for the world’s sculling championship. By local time, New Zealand being a long way ahead of Vancouver, the race will not take place until 10 o'clock to-morrow morning. Tomorrow’s cablegrams should therefore announce the result. Competent judges on this side of tne globe regard Goodseil as one of the finest champions the world has seen. His faultless bladework and orthodox swing raise him much above many others who have held the title, and distinguish him from mere “plugg-:rs” who won their way to the front by virtue of sheer physical strength. Of Barry’s prowess little is known here, except by hearsay. According to English standards he is a very line sculler indeed. and therefore should have a good chance against the Australian. SCULLING TRADITION

A nephew of a former title-holder, Ernest Barry, 11. A. (Bert) Barry has sculling in his blood. For generations members < T his line have been Thames waterin' I professional boatmen, as jealous oi their trade as were the craftsmen of the ancient guilds. Ernest Barry first came into the sculling picture in 1910, when he was beaten on the Zambesi by Dick Arnst. but lQng before that, in IS9I, a W. A. Barry won Doggett’s coat and badge, the livery and badge presented for Thames professionals by Thomas Doggett, comedian, in 1715. .

Ernest Barry avenged hfs Zambesi defeat on the Thames in 1912, and subsequently beat Durnan, Pearce, and Paddon. Losing to the Australian, Felton, in 1919, he recovered the . title on the Parramatta the following year, and then “bequeathed” the title to Arnst. who was in turn beaten by the Aucklander, Darcy Hadfield. Goodseil, then, was just a stripling, who could handle a boat exceptionally well. When Paddon was holder of the title, after Hadfield, Goodseil challenged. only to fall out of his boat, though he cimbed back and managed to run his long opponent to a fair finish. GOODSELL TAKES CHARGE Mc-Devitt claimed the championship when Paddon retired, but was beaten by Goodseil. who li:i« held h since. Of earlier champions, some of the more famous were Ned Trickett, of Sydney, the first Australian to hold th« Htle, though the first Australian challenge • was R. A. W. Green, who was beaten by Chambers in 1863. Those were great days in professional sculling. Into the picture steps J. Renforth, a Newcastle (England) miner, one of the most famous oarsmen and scullers of his day. He boat his friend Kelley for the championship in IS6S, and three years later took a crew of professional oarsm* n to Canada to row a match against a New Brurswick crew on/the Kennebecasis River. Tragedy intervened, for during the race Renforth collapsed, and died in Kelley’s arms. Trickett’s success introduced the long line of colonial champions. He was followed by Hanlan, of Canada; W Beach, who defended his title seven times and Peter Kemp and Searle, both of Sydney. Searle went to England, and defeated the Canadian, O Connor, and on the way back to Australia died at sea under tragic circumstnce?. Th famous “broken column on the PanamAn Aucklander, T. Sullivan. _wh° worked in Logan’s boatbuilding establishment at North Shore, soon wards challenged, but was beaten b> P Stanbury. Going to England. Sullivan was successful in Wxnnin & th English championshipTABLE OF RACES

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