SCULLING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 8 January 1908, Page 2

SCULLING.

THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP,

WEBB V. TRESIDPER

When Trosidder stepped out of his ski ft" yesterday morning after an eightmile spin, it was easily seen that he has £omo to Wangamvi in condition that needs little* fining down. After housing his boat in the'most tender manner, he made a hop, step, and a jump, and almost in a second had taken ia header down below. "Ah!" he said as ho camo tt> tha surface and. clambered on to- the <W.II C._ staging, ".this is just lovely! I do enjoy rowing on this river." Then the rubl>mg-down process was proceeded with, and later on, ml the buff, Tresid?ler took the scales and' tipped th!o beam at 12st. 101b.

Asked as to whether he considered •that as a fail- rowing weigjht at the present time, he smiled genially, and his trainoi- then intervened with the remark, " We'lL. take a few pounds more off him yet, and then build'-him ud for the big struggle."

Asked, then, by the übicmiious reporter, the Wallsend man quickly replied,. "I shall row, I ihwpe, at a'Httle over. 12 stone;' it may be 12.2 or 12.4, but not over."

"And have, climatici conditio^is affoete:l you, so far as your sojourn in Waiiganui'is ooncbrned?" was the next question put. and the reply wise prompt. "Never better in my. life!" This should absolutely bs> the homo of scullino;." <:_As to your. iMimer and anethod of training, do you observe any strict rules?'-'

'"WcH. you sds. we \mvd. as yon: rointe:l -out in the 'Chronicle' yesterday, ■ivcwk by the clock. I nevar -cleViaLo. fro'in that. My work goes on in that wny: honr-n the condition I am now in. ancl I will. certainly.give my backers a'gcocli'nii..:Bcr their money/ " ;

_ Several local .scullers h&l accompanied Tfpsicldor cm liis spin np-.rivoT% an:l most of tlicni pvaisstl. ibrs finirsherl stylo of rowing. b:it. to tilio wri-tci'. who nkc> v.-ibnf;33?.cl tbo i:&o," it seamed tliat the finish was far better than the ca.kb— that is to say, thcvisitci-'s loft hand has more hold of tho waiter 'than the right, thns ca-usino) tbici <iraft. to wobble when the actual weight'is being put on; bnt tliero is no doubt about the length and stiT-iigth of the stroke.

Latftv on, one of our representatives raw Webb, who* Las evidently entered upon his task with a very light heart, ami in the best of spirits, notwithstanding bi-3 reoemt. in disposition. At the present time the champion goes tt> pcalo at 10.10. but ihis course of training increasse his weight, eo^ that, ail being well, lie will iw at, say, 11.2. As previously r.tated, Webb is a very easy man to t:\ain. and'whatever weisht. bo does pivt on after this means abspluta musoio. just the same as wben ho train~ ed for the races- in which he defeated Stan bury on the Wanganui and O. Toavjis on the Parramatta.

It h sigiii-ficanfc of the- interest which U already being exhibited 'throughout tho Dominion^ in this interesting eo.ntest for supremacy in the sculling worH. that the railway authoritiev^ arerarr.angins; for a special train- to be ,rnn from Wellington to Wanganui oai the day of th« race—2oth February—antt no doubt other oxciiraionis of a like- nature -will follow Tt js hkewiso satnfactoi v +o note that our popular caterer, ~SIr W S Dustm, has undeMtaken tho citeii.ie niinnaemeiih for übat promises to b« +be larg^j: aqii'at o %<ithering jet ]mld in th^ Sauthem,iHemisnlie.<\ and Vni h si.ffcient guarnnK-e tint our vi§'tc--B tijJl ]>■ adrqaaWy looked aft^r, sit any r.;le to-> far a, the rcquiipnimt of th^ jmier man are cdncerneid.