AQUATICS.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16432, 28 January 1919, Page 3

AQUATICS.

CHRISTCHURCH MAN'S SUCCESS AT HOME. / Tho honorary secretary of the Canterbury Kowing Club has received tho following latter from the Hon. A. 11. Myers, Commodore of x tho Waitcmata Boating Club: — "The honorary secretary of the Waiteniata Boating Club has intimated to me tho fact that a member of your club, Mr B. E. Fitzer, formed one of the New Zealand crew which ,Won the International Eights at Reading recently, and that the record they then created ■ wu so magnificent that the crow was characterised as ono of the finest.ever seen in England; further, that the- Homo Press gives it n» the general opinion on the river that nothing that Oxford and Cambridge has produced during tho past twenty-five years can approach this splendid combination .of picked New Zealand rowers. "Permit me to offer you tho hearty congratulations of our own club, and indeed to voice tho feeling that all keen sportsmen must experience, on hearing of the unsurpassed truooees of our rowing men in Home circles. Oxford and Cambridge boatmen have. always been considered (and deservedly so) to be 'the finest example in style and achievement that the world could offer in rowing circles; and to know that a crew composed of our own compatriots has succeeded in. equalling nnd even outdistancing the Oxford and Cambridge standards, is .more than gratifying to all koen sportsmen in Nor/ Zealand, and should sswe rs an incentive to living up to the name that your club's representative is assisting'so worthily to maintain in the Old Country. "That caoh member of the rowing crew in question had scon service in Franca, and had been wounded "in tho cause of Empire and of humanity, adds further lustre to the leaovd of thsir achievements, and justifies our proud belief in our men—that in peac«, as well as in righteous warfare, their qualities nnd prowess are equal to the beet of the stock from which we are sprung. "Again with mo3t cordial congratulations to the club and to Mr Fitzer in particular, I am, yours faithfully, Arthur M. Myers, Commodore, Waitemata Boating Club."