SCULLERS ON TOUR.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 428, 10 February 1909, Page 9

SCULLERS ON TOUR.

'- 'FOGWELL; ANp ■ '''P : ; , ■'■ }-y: • A -LETTER FROII/ '}'. ■ '■'■' .' Messrs. ; Fogwcll. and; Floyd, pacemaker and trainer of Arnst,tthe champipn" sculler, arrived in .Wellington- on Saturday eveniri" after an enjpyab|p cycling, tour of the island..-.- Accompanied.-. by Arast,' the party left for. Wanganui.by,train,/ and then "cycledthrough tp New Plymouth,; frdm-Zwhcre.they made the. aspent -pf Mount Egniont, Messrs. FpgwElland ' Floyd '■ being /.the. only . two'/ to, struggle to. the/topmpst peak.-. They, did not have a very .good, view o( : the surrounding country, for barely,-had thoy" reachedvthe : top when it began to snow, and the descent had to be made in double quick time. From New they went on thrpugli ■ Waitara and/Mokou. to.,Te Kiifii,V.9rid--'after,-Wd-'a' visit, U> Putaruru, whore therei are big tim--%-,?,i!)!?g, operations gojng on : faidetf by a - 60rraiIe light tramway . the bush). .-A pleasant break' was .'made at , Rpfprua, and, pn 'Mpnday last, Arnsf leftVthere fpr Auckland, and FpgweU and:fjoyd left' by' bicycle for.Waitapu, and Taupp:ccmi!ngpn to Wellington via,Tpkaanu, 'faihapo,? Palmerston" Npithi Manafwatu Gorge, Wairarapa, and theRimutakas'. • J; .■■■■, '-.'■/•': ,,-v.-v.-.-■-..■ : ' '-.■■ .':■' ■;'■/

They left for ■ Lytteltori-last .evening,' find-.- proceed on from there on' Wednosday to Akarpa, where Fogwoil" is to begin training; fpr the. £200-asjde . rnatch . with Whejch, to •b6--.rpwed-iherfs-.-pn ■Easter' Monday, The articles tor tKe'niatch'iyere signed when -Fogwell .was. in , . Ectopia.^ : '- Arnst' will•' be. dcwn a, little later "to : act' as pacemaker for.thp AUstralwnlaspiraritfor the ohamP'Pnshjp -pf- ?few . Zeafaiid. '"■; Fqgwoll states Mat .-.if he is a wipner on iEaster Mondavi ho: will ge to Londpji. to compete .w 'the 'Nugget ,T . Polish Compan>'s; fiqOO'.BpullinE handiqap.pn i the'.Thames.' ■'.Hβ . has' had ' a new boatbuilt hy_ Gep; Towns'for'the fprth'rai^W?- : '- 6 , tv, '° fee|f" ; l()iippr than the "Jim Fjeld'Mho boat iv|iiph;l e 'brought over'with him from Sydney.to Dace'Arrist •: In view,of the fable'.news'"from Sydney yesterday referring - to : a -niatch' ""..b'etiveen Arnst and Durnan: (Hanlon's - nephew)' a let-' ter -reoeivcd.by.Mr: Harry Floyd from exchampipn William Beach is of 'interest Beach/says', that: he has 'left '■ the "hospital, and will be all right ina-few-vreekß' time. But I do apt think I could tate part in. a. , : rowing contest," he writes with humour,, "as.the dqctor says I must hot',lift anything heavy, for some time to cpme but if I keep on imprpving as-I have done since' I left the-hospital I will bo abje'to lift a bullock.'? The old champion-has formed the opinion that Englishman Barry would be an /'easy iionquest snap! , for • Arnst/' ljkewiso Durnari, if a match 1 with the Canadian" could bo arranged. Beach savs that Mr,'' Andrews (rowing ■ scribe, for. thq -. Sydney'."Sunday Sun'.')'had told-him that "Mr. Commerford had just.returned 'from Canada, arid that ' lie (Mr. Commerford) has. commissioned' Mr. Andrews to make a match with: Arnst to row Durnan'for any amount up to £5()0 : a-sido. V • Both Messrs; Pogwell and Floyd state'that there have been no developnieiits in the negotiations; between Arnst aiid.Biirrysinpe the jatter sent his_ answer, to the', champion's; challenge (offering to: row Arnst on 'the Thames < for £509; and .providing ' £100 ; ; exSenscfs) j-: but: if a•• match could be fixed, with lurqan it.was' more, than likely, that 'Arnst ; ivould accept;- , Barry's .-terms; The assertioii that negotiations for a match between Arnst and the Englishman'-had been all,but completed waseWß to both meaV'.-; v--' ■'. ,