SCULLING.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12708, 20 March 1911, Page 5

SCULLING.

THE PARAMATTA HUNDRED

RESULT OF FIRST HEATS

DICK «ARNST RETIRES

(United Press Association. —Copyright.) Received March 19, 5 p.m. S\DNEY, March IS. For the Paramatta Hundred the. wcathfr was fine, and there was a ris-

ing tide-. First Heat.—Ripley (S3soc±) 1, Theo. Towns (48s€cs) 2, Day (ISsees) 3. Ripley was never overhauled, and won a gocd race hy a length. Second .Heat.— Norman Towns (44 sees) 1, W. W2. t < 7Ss.cc s) 2, McLean (75&ecs) 3. Towns gradually forged through ay.d won by two lengths. A j great finish to.jk place between the, other placed men. J. Arnst pushing Mc-j Lean hard for third place-. Third Heat.—Hagney (l&ocs) 1. Simpson (70sees) 2, Paddon (4osces) 3. The presence .of A rust and other cracks, including Messenger, gave.additional interest. Hagney, with -a... good start, oveirliaitled the liaiit man at Tennyson. Lawsou (COseas) lying fourth, Arnst (&or.) with il2ssei:g:r (32seco) together well in the rear. At Cabarita Arnst retired despite many requests to finish tho course. Hagney, 'finishing well, won by four lengths, Lawson' fourth, and Messenger in the ruck.

Fourtn Heat.—Fog well (lSvecs) 1. F. Matterson (403ecs) 2, G\ Matterson (75 sees) 3. Fog well steadily mad® his way to the front, and took charge at Tennyson, when lie jumped away and finished two lengths to the good. Kemp was fourth.

Arnst's defeat has robbed the final next Saturday cf a--good deal of interest.