SCULLING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXX, Issue 11973, 17 September 1906, Page 2

SCULLING.

BY "VICTOR."

The Edmonds' Challenge Cup, which was won by Mr W. Webb at the championship regatta at Picton, was presented to him at the annual meeting of the 13 .8.C. It is a very handsome trophy, and it is sincerely to be hoped that another "light blue" sculler will prove equal to winning the cup at the next championship meeting. There is little doubt that Mr Webb would again carry off the trophy were he to coispote — and the cup would then become his own property — but, of course, his match with James Stanbury will debar him. It ia quite on the cards, though, that tho amateur championship will not be allowed to leave Wangamii, aa the U.B.C. shed shelters another sculler who may provo equal to winning the title. At all events the "light blues" are very hopeful that he will.

Writing from Tarn worth (New South Wales) where he is in business as a general draper and importer, Mr "Jack" Ferry, in the course of a letter to his father, says: — "I have read the articles in tho xieralds received regarding 1 the probabilities of tho sculling match on the \\ anganui River, and believe that even if V-Vbb is beaten it will be worth thousands of pounds to Wanganui ac an advertisement. There will be an enormous influx of visitors, and people in all parts of Australasia will be talking about Wanganui who never heard of it before. All the sanio I 'would' like to see the Wanganui man down tho Australian ('and so say all of us') for I am a Wanganuiite before anything."