SCULLING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 7

SCULLING.

AUSTRALIAN CHAMPIONSHIP: PfIAROE TO MEET MITCHELL. (or TiLEasAfH—ritEss iSBoGi/cnoic-ootfniianti) (Rec. June 1," 9.20 p.m.) Sydney, June 1. H. Pearco, who recently defeated B. ThoroUghgood for the sculling championship of Australia) has aooeptetl a challenge from John Mitchell, of South Grafton, to row , for the championship and £100 aside, about July 17.' ti,' Mitchell was pacemaker to Thorough' good, and it was staled recently that ha was to meet G. Day, Pearoe's pacemaker. Ap»arently he has gone a step higher. The Clarence Biver people have faith in Mitchell.! WHELOH'S f>nOBPECTB. --■ ' The change of honours in Australia, and the activity in rowing over there, give an added interest to the prospects of the New Zealand 'sculler,-Wheloh. who, after being beaten by Thoroushgood, defeated Fogwell. A correspondent of the Sydney "Eeferee" writes:-As an. attempt has been made to belittle tho performanee put up by Geo. Wheloh in his raotrwltk Thoroughgood at Raymond Terrace,' I made It my business to obtain from Thoroughgood. o dofinito statement as to what he thought of , tho little New Zealandcr as a rower, and this is what thd Australian champion Says.— "I notice in a Sunday, paper mention is made ' of my races with WhcM and Fofiwell and Towns and Trosidder. Well, I Still Bay that Whelth is tho fastest rowsr I ever met in a race, because I was much Impfoved from the time I rowed Towns, Tresulder, and Fogwell, and under the conditions the time was faster, as Wheloh and I rowed against the tide, ovtr the safflo course. -The time was lflmin. Saseo., and the race with Towns ocCUpied'lOmin. 15see. ■ with the tide. The time of the Tresldder race was lßlnln. 9sec, also with thß tide. Itewihi; with and acaiißt the tide will make fully two ' minutes' difference, and another disadvantage 1 Wheloh had in addition to the tula waS that I was giving him my wash after the first 300 I fards, and that means a. lot in three miles. 1 in addition to tho tide and my wash, he rowed ' around all the bohds, whioh means another 150 or 200 yards, as, rowing with the tide, we would row a straight course. So I think, after it is all reokoned up, that my race with Whelth . was the fosteal." ••'•■''