ROWING.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17470, 2 June 1922, Page 4

ROWING.

DISCONTINUED AT WAITAKI BOYS' HIGH SCHOOL. Rowing enthusiasts will regTet to hear that rowing, which has been part of the athletic ( activities of the Waitaki Boys' High School for some considerable time, has now bean | discontinued. This will mean that the jnter-schools' boat race will now be limited to Wanganui, Christ's College, and Christchurch Boys' High School. Waitaki ha 3 been handicapped in the contest by tho lack of a straight course at Oamaru, hut the school's record has been -very fair. In the nine races the Waitaki crew has been, first one* and second four times. The winter of the rowing notes in the latest issue of the 'Waitakiau" says:—"On OU r resumption of school this year we found ■much to our regret, that rowing had ™en dropped off our list of athletics TIS } 3 W " c: ~ FußU y, that it would i>e better to devoto our interest +l,. . major branch of summer TuWoor sooner than to attempt two branches. Secondly f in order to do our necpmsavu * • The h^h 10 CyC '° nCarly tllree do"n"tf on'v to «t T ni " S befol ' 6 breakfast, t t ? j , inadequate straight stretch I of a. few hundred yards on which to pracuae ? time we had was not nearly sufficient' and the boys, after their early mornin^er: W B i n C tt U i DOt IXS €ipected to do their best in the classroom. However, even thee© disadvantages did not stop riwing irom SSor boyt" " PttßUm<s amon Sst the is paid to the enthusiastic work tL trhnnl' hist assistant of tho school, and rowing coach, for the enthusiastic work he had done in the intereats of rowing at tho school. . On the retirement of the school from rowing, states the "Waitakian," it was decided to present the echool racing boat to tho Oamaru, Boating Club in, recognition of its sporting treatment of the echool i n t h 8 branch of athletics. I n acknowledging the wro'te ■We C 'v t r l7 ° £ Oamaru ? Club u iT-j j i f , h lesret tia t it haa I ,^ ofclded to delete rowing from tho boys' [athletic course as during the many years in which the echool and club haw been coi> netted tho best spirit of comradeship has always existed between tho echool and the other members of the club. . . My committee wish me to express to you their sincere thanks for your generous donation, on behalf of the echool, of the school racing boat to tho club." The secretary concluded by expressing the hope that the club would make as good us© of the boat as th© school had in the past. <