AQUATIC.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8553, 22 May 1895, Page 2

AQUATIC.

The Beoent Intercolonial Boat Race. Straining 1 a Point. (By Eleotno Telegraph— Copyright;.) (Pat TJnited Frets Auooiatian.) '" BbISBANB, MkJ 21. Speaking at the picnic given in honour of the eight-oxred crews from Victoria and New South Wales, the Hon. Thomas J. Byrnes, Attorney-General, referring to the action of the Rowing Association of Sydney in ordering the New South Wales crew to withdraw from the contest became one of the men of the Victorian crew was alleged to have raced for cash is a bicycle race, said if the crew had withdrawn it would have be«n the death blow to the international contests. He considered there was nothing in the point raised, and looked with great Concern on the arbitrary definitions regarding professionalism being introduced into rowing. To his mind a professional was a man who applied his skill for professional purposes,, and all the colonies ought to agree as to the definition of an amateur, which should cover the whole of Australia. Mr Guisfc, of New South Wales, said the ] Victorian crew had been formed long before the New South Wales orew had left Sydney, and if the Bowing Association had wanted to tak* the axceptiotl it should have been done before the Victorian crew left Melbourne. In refusing to obey the Association he 'was guided by the rule that men should be recognised as amateurs when accepted as such by thair own colony. Ha considered ha would have acted in an unsportsmanlike manmerif he had withdrawn. No doubt ha would be censured by the Association, but in what he had don* he was supported by the whole of the crew. Mr Upward, of Victoria, endorsed the views of Mr Quist,