SCULLING.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13929, 12 June 1909, Page 2

SCULLING.

THE APPROACHING BATTLE.

ARNST AND WEBB.

Per Press Association. WANGANUI, June 12. On Tuesday next the final deposit of £300 per man will have to be made eood with the stakeholder in connection with the sculling championship on the 22nd. • , Interviewed yesterday, the champion (who has not been well for a few days) Baid: "I c*tt feel myself coming on, and to-day I feel more like rowjngthap I have done for some days past. I expoct to improve every day now, and should be Al when I go to the P«f^J had rather a bad turn and it puHed me down a bit, but I shall be all the. better for the spell." Later on, when Arnst stripped and got on the scales, hia weight was Ms*. 5J lb.. or three or four pounds heavier than he was a couple of days Prenous He looks upon the increase «f weignt as very satisfactory. Yesterday morning Arnst and *ogwell went over the championship course, indulging in a few sprints Qn the way. In the afternoon the course was again covered, the champion stnkinE about 24 to the minute, his long sweeping strokes having great power m Webb took things easily yesterday, rowing by himself over the course iv the morning, and in the afternoon drivingto tEe sea beach. This morning, accompanied of Whelch, he had a solid row £>▼•*. •, couple of miles, and the pair Ihen indulged in sprinting in which the exchampion was seen to great advantage, showing a lot of pace. J-