808 PEARCE WINS N.S.W. SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.
(United Press Assn. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, December 23. Bob Pearce, the Olympic champion, cleared away to win the New South Wales amateur sculling championship by twenty lengths. The New Zealander, A. Jackson, was unplaced. The rough water did not suit him, Pearce’s victory gave him the third successive win in the State sculling championship. Getting away well, he established an early lead, and, settling down for the long course of three miles 167 yards, sculled one of the greatest races of his career. The further he went the greater became his lead. The second man, Scott, who is the makings of a good sculler, finished a minute and five seconds after Pearce. Jackson nearly capsized a couple of times in the rough water. Scott beat the third man, Goulding, by seven lengths. Then came Jackson, a similar distance away fourth. Stewart did not finish.
The champion eights was won by the Mossman crew from Sydney No. 1, with Sydney No. 2 third. Mosman ran away antf. finished 200 yards in front of the second crew. It was Mosman’s seventh win in eight rowing sea-sons.—-Australian Press Association.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18643, 24 December 1928, Page 4
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