SCULLING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6049, 4 October 1887, Page 3

SCULLING.

« Beach and Hanlan. [from our own correspondent.] (Per s.s. Waihora, at the Bluff.) NEW SOUTH WALES. INVERCARGILL, Oct. 3. Beach, the champion sculler, will shortly take up his quarters on the Nepean. He has been living quietly at Dapto, occasionally working hard to keep himself in condition, and is now in the best of health, full of confidence, and within a few pounds of his rowing weight. He is immensely pleased with the Nepean course, which he says is the best he has ever seen. He will be trained by Peter Kemp, who will attend Beach at Ryde during the next fortnight, which will be occupied in making preliminary arrangements for a regular course of practice. Hanlan, the ex-champion sculler, who lately arrived in Sydney, attributes his defeat on the Parramatta river by Beach to his having to row against the tide. Beach being much the stronger of the two, this tidal disadvantage militated greatly against his (Hanlan's) chance of success. He says he would never have revisited Australia to row for the championship on the Parramatta, but looks forward to a much lighter pace on the quieter water of the Nepean. While owning to his recent defeats in America, he claims a fluke in each case. He denies the report cabled to Australia to the effect that the race with Gaudaur was rowed in the dark, and says that for publishing this the papers had to apologise publicly. He also explains hiß non-participation in the Thames races by stating that Ross and j Teemer's challenge having been accepted prior to his challenge arriving, and a spell of sickness following, it was too late on his arrival in London to arrange anything with Beach but the forthcoming race.