SCULLING.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 6, 5 August 1908, Page 13

SCULLING.

Arnst, who is to row Webb for the championship of the world in November next, is (according to a correspondent oi his in Greymouth) training actively in view of his match with Pearce, which takes place on the Parramatta River next month. After this event he will come to New Zealand to start training for the championship. Arnst will probably train on the Manawatu River. Mr. Spencer Gollan, the well-known New Zealand sportsman, is finding the money for George Towns, of Australia, in the match arranged between Towns and Ernest Barry, of Brentford, for the English professional sculling championship and stakes of £4OO, to be rowed on the Thames championship course next autumn. The match was duly ratified on Wednesday at a meeting held at the Vesta Rowing Club, Putney. Barry, who looked unlikely at one time to secure sufficient backing, is being supported by a few sportsmen from the Central Markets. Towns has twice won the English championship and three times the world’s championship, while Barry has yet to scull his first match of any importance. The race is fixed to take place on October 12 next. The United Kingdom won all four events at the Olympia regatta, Henley, the Leander Club beating Belgium in the final for the eight-oared race.