ROWING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18629, 5 December 1928, Page 12

ROWING.

CANTERBURY ASSOCIATION. A meeting of the Canterbury Amateur Rowing Association, held last night, was attended by Messrs F. D. Kesteven (chairman), W. Duggan, G. H. Hobbs, F. L. Booth. A. T. Evans. 11. H. Berry, D. Bovd, R. Moore, H. W. Ryder, J. H. Williams, S. Dunn, W. L. Whittington, and R. J. Hobbs (hon secretary). The secretary quoted extracts from the minutes of the annual meeting of the New Zealand Association. The secretary reported that those students of Canterbury College who had taken up rowing this season had applied for use of an eight-oar boat so that the college could participate in the eight-oared race at the annual in-ter-university tournament, to be held in Christchurch next Easter. A crew from Sydney University who would be touring New Zealand about that time would row at Corsair Bay, probably against a crew from the combined universities of New Zealand, during the week following Easter. The application for use of one boat only was granted, subject to conditions to be drawn up by a sub-committee consisting of Messrs Kesteven, Hobbs and Berry. It was stipulated by the meeting that the association would, in any case, have to keep one boat for its exclusive use.

It was decided that the eight-oar championship of New Zealand be rowed at Corsair Bay, Lyttelton, on Easter Saturday. SINGLE SCULLING. “We rowers in Canterbury are backward as far as single sculling is concerned. How long is it since the province produced a winner of the single sculling championship?” asked Mr H. H. Berry at the meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Rowing Association last night. Mr Berry’s remarks were made in the course of a discussion on the question whether single sculling races should be encouraged at regattas in Canterbury. No motion was passed, but a majority of the members appeared to be in favour of the holding of such events.

The subject was brought up by a complaint from Mr H. W. Ryder (Lyttelton Club delegate) that only two clubs in Canterbury could take part in the youths’ single scuffing events at the Akaroa regatta on New Year’s Day. Akaroa and Avon were the only clubs which possessed single sculling craft, in which, it was stipulated, the race should be rowed. Formerly, when the one-man event had been held at Akaroa, double scuffing boats had been used. Now such boats were not eligible. This, complained Mr Ryder, was not fair to the smaller clubs, who * should not be asked to invest many pounds in a single sculler when they could not find money for their other craft. The association had previously insisted upon the Akaroa Club allowing the race to be rowed in double scuffing boats, and this should stiff be insisted upon. There was another point of view, that a club would spend £5 in taking a single sculler over to Akaroa for a race which was worth only £3. There would be only two crews in the race this season. The secretary (Mr R. J. Hobbs): The Thacker Shield goes with the race. Christ’s College have now two single scullers. The president (Mr F. D. Kesteven)

stated that the rules stipulated that the race had to be rowed in single sculling craft. Mr W. Duggan: The double sculling boats are too heavy. The boys found the going too strenuous. Still, a double sculler might win against a single sculler in rough water. Mr Berry, after declaring that Can* terbury was backward in single sculling, suggested that if a regatta were not held at Lyttelton this season a single scuffing race could be rowed when the eight-oar championship \Cas held at Corsair Bay. The suggestion w r as held over.

CHRISTCHURCH REGATTA CLUB. The annual report of the Christchurch Regatta Club, which will be presented at the meeting to be held next Tuesday, states that the season commenced with a membership of 77, and the financial membership now stood at 68. Funds in hand at the start of the season amounted to £76 4s, and the amount carried forward to next year was £BB 6s lOd, an increase of £l2 2s lOd. The annual regatta held on the Waimakariri River at Kairaki last February was a great success. Entries were received from the following clubs: Avon, Canterbury, Cure, Lyttelton, Sumner-Redcliffs, Union, and Star (Wellington). THE AVON CLUB. Following are the crews for the Avon Club’s open tours: Jordan, Wright, Thomas and Reaby; Kelly, E. Wilson, Dalzell and S. Wilson: Warlow, J. Waldron, Simon and Norrish: R. Waldron, Dakin, Hutcheson and Williamson; Bennett, Robinson, Hyde and Cliffe. Following is the final OjE the club’s Walton double sculls race: R. Batchelor and C. Kelly defeated J. Brixton and G. Scott by a length, after a good