SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17119, 14 April 1921, Page 9

SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP.

AENST ABBIVES TO DEFEND TITLE. (PRESS ASSOCIATION' TELEGRAM.) WELLINGTON, April 13. "DicV Arnst, the champion fcculler, arrived from Sydney by the Manuka Way, rftef an absence from New Zealand of ten years and proceded to .his home in Canterbury by to-night's ferry steamer. Interviewed by a "New Zealand Times, renter, Arnat stated that hs had returned to New Zealand in order to row Paday Harfnan for the world's championship. Prior £ tho Feltan-Barry race on the Farramatta rivei laft "earf challenged .the dinner tor the titte, and, according to the comh ; «Jv*« iwcribed deputed at the lMeMt Harry retained the title, bmth.conusti.ua K was deferred nniJ the champion returned to England, when he announced his jetTremeut, and said he would not meet the challenger. U the New .ear Arnst again Sensed bv cable jnen-» S e, but received no xewv? 'The rules ataue that a chalfen4mut.be accepted within three.months, Otufmso the holder forfeits the title, lap prescribed period has now pewed, and Arnct eUuw the title of sculling champion ot the "aU has now challenged Arnat, and. the rat. will .-be rowed on tho AYa:rau *ivcr, Marlborough, at the beginning- of Juno. AMrtMW ttatwfooon » he. reaches Blenheim b* intends to. get down to the hardest Ho- anticipates a really %« b he can recondition bimself, ho expects to win-