SCULLING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12292, 9 October 1907, Page 2

SCULLING.

THE WORLDS CHAMPIONSHIP

ABOUT ARNSTS CHALLENGE.

Arnst's challenge (says the Sydney Sun) will doubtless come as a big surprise. But his position is unparalleled. Here is a man who never even rowed a pleasure boat until he came across to Sydney less than 18 months ago. Yet he persevered until he could sit a racing shell. He fell out a number of times, but tackled racing. He won two out of three handicaps, capsizing in the third. He is a fine stamp of sculler, the best man we have seen, in fact, since Stanbury's best days; he is possessed of groat strength and stamina, and is only 23 years of age, but a perfect scare seems to have set in against him amongst scullers. He has tried everybody for a match, but has not yet been successful. Even Whelch, the Akaroa sculler, who promised him a race after the next New Zealand Amateur Regatta, cabled him during the week, refusing to meet him. Charlie Towns a few days ago agreed to give Arnst a race, but as Towns is training Fog well nothing can be done for a while. Arnst, however, has determined to get the next race for the title, and has lulfilled the championship conditions and laws.

The question of domicile and the £25 deposit is sure to crop up, but Arnst knows what he is doing. He is quite prepared to raise tueMcposit to £100, should ii bo necessary, but there is nothing in the c ouditioiiri which imposes on him the o'jh 6 ation of rowing for New Zealand .if he desires to race as an Australian after his long domicile there. The new aspirant sprang into prominence when he won the great Sydney Thousand cycling prize. In that event he had such continental champions as Meyer and Rutt, aud the crack Australians, up against him, he broke away for a lap and a half on his own, and notwithstanding the tremendous sprints of the fliers behind him ran home in sensational style the winner of the greatest cash prize in the cycling world. Arnst has won several big cycling prizes, and has been successful at putting the shot and throwing the hammer. Singularly enough, Arnst trained J. Searle for his race against Mitchell a few woeks back. As mentioned above, Fogwell, Mitchell's present opponent, has promised to row Arnst later on.