AQUATICS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16722, 3 January 1920, Page 5

AQUATICS.

Rep. Short, th<» ecnller wl,o hai> from j Gcorgo'a River, New Smith Wales, and who j Li matched to row McDevitt, has design* <>n j tho world's chompion3hip (says a Svdnev | >VTi(cr). Ha baa been rowing eiuce 1914. :;r.d ! in eight etarto in bis; events h::» scored throe wins, two seconds, and two_ fourths, a j very fine performance- for any ecuiler. Standing well over eix feet, Short strips at l:>'. and has a spread from tip to_t;p o{ Cft ."in. When ho went to Ballina, in November, l'Jll, Short was a Taw Bculler. but he won two handicaps, worth £120. That brcusfrt him into I tho front line, but the advent of tho war j put an end to lii* chanccs, and pinco the • Ballina performsr.ee he b*s had only <hh> I opportunity of showing hi 3 alility. 'That | was at the Belgian carnival in 1913. From ! a start of 23 flcconds ]» met tho present | world's champion, Alf. Fe'.ton. and other ! such good r>erformcTs a* Syd. Kemp, Choriio 1 Town*, and Georee Joch. Hxj raco waa won ; by Jim Ellin, who was on tho CO sx?ron<ia mark. Short finished teennd, and was fol- 1 lowed by Tvemo, Felton, Towns, and .Tack. From tho actual finishing times it was fchown : that relton could not then have conceded 1 Short 13 «conds. Th« Gcorce's River man i is game enouirh and strong enough to <!o- j vol op into a champion. i