ROWING

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 496, 1 May 1909, Page 9

ROWING

, CEY MERCTBY.) Says 'the "Referee" on a certain championship : "Harry I'careo expresses himself as foelmg pretty weirfor his race with Ben Thorouehgood, for a stake, of £100 aside and the championship, on the Parramatta. Ho is doing' steady work : from his boat-shed at the Spit, Middle Harbour, and now has George Day to give him some pace. Ho will not leave for the river for some time yet, when ho proposes to put himself in the hands of Peter Kemp, flie champion is looking well; and is now, going out from Geo. Towns's shed .on the river. It is yet too earljr to speak of the comparative work of the men." ' - . V - On a championship, recently fought out nearer home, the samo paper says:—ln rowing circles' Whelcli's decisive victory :over Fogwell still causes surprise,, and the wise ones who looked upon'the match as a; cakewalk for smiling Billy do not appear to like it a .bit. One. would-be exceptionally clover authority sa.vs: "Whelch's miserable showing against Thoroughgood makes the defeat all the more difficult to understand." As "Whole)], much below weight and in $limatic conditions that did not suit him, made a distinctly creditable showing against Thoroughgood, tho bottom falls out of the contention_ of tho argument. Asked, about his race with-Whelch, the Australian champion said: "It had been said that his win was an easy one, but he could tell them it was a hard race, and absolutely the fastest ho had over rowed." /And again: "Ho freelv admitted that Whelch ■ was tho best man ho had ever met." Mr. W. M'llroy. secretary to Thorcughgood's, comniitteo, said at tho settling: "The race was (the best.ho had ever witnessed. 1 . . . /Wheleh did tlie "country that sent him every credit.". Mr. M'Uroy also predicted that if Whclch' and Fogweil ever met, Fogwell would bb beaten. A "miserablo' showing"! "Whrit.iie^t?Fact' is that some people have, got it into' their heads that -neither Webb ntir Wholch are any good as scullers', and tho belief sticks hard. ■ ,