AQUATICS.
SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF AUSTRALIA. PEARCE DEFEATS DAY. A CLOSE FINISH. The sculling match for the championship of Australia and £lOO a-side, between H- Pearce (holder) and G. Day, was rowed on the Parramatta on Saturday, and resulted in a win for Pearce. Pearce was the better away, and was never overhauled, though Day, who rowed splendidly, and made a plucky race of it, kept him moving. Several times Day got on close terms, and he was pressing the champion in the last half-mile.
The finish was exciting. A hundred yards from home Pearce was leading by about three lengths, when he suddenly and momentarily stopped, owing to something going wrong with his left arm.
Day got almost level before Pearce again got going. The actual win was only by half a length. Time, 26m. Is. Pearce won the title of champion of Australia from Thoroughgood in March (Parramatta, 21m. 195.), and held it in July against Mitchell (Parramatta, 23m. 435.).
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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1021, 30 September 1909, Page 11
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161AQUATICS. New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVIII, Issue 1021, 30 September 1909, Page 11
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