SCULLING.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 524, 3 June 1909, Page 7

SCULLING.

iTHE WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP. Arnst and: Webb row - three weeks from yesterday for £1000 and the championship of tho world.. _ . ./' /■".' Tho second deposits of £100 each man navo i been.mado good, and the stakeholder (the editor of tho "Herald") now holds £200 from eaoh man. The-final deposits of £300 eaotr will bo-made good a fortnight hence. : Both men have .done a lotof good work during ' the last few' days (says, "Victor". .in the ''Herald"). The' otherday, • Webb covered, about two miles in his jaew boat at a very!solid pace all tho way,-finishing up his task ini a style which proved that:his con-. I dition tij>-to[>. Ho set. off at a 'fast i pace and maintained it . right through, Bculling in-a very pleasing and clean style,., .his rate of-stroke averaging about, 27 for the whole distauoe. ,The.spin was a mpst satisfactory one, .proving ,as it did that the ex-' champion.is jn' excellent, form,-. and that" the new beat is a really good one.

■ Arnst also has put in some splendid rowing ;recently."aad' has had a couple of ."ding-dong" goes with Fogwell oyer two: miles .-orf- : ; the championship course. In those ;'. .spins ; the champion drove his boat along at a remark, ably fast.rate^and -was going "strongly at. tliq_ finish, testifying to tbo fact he is' very fit already. :,An impression' appears to prevail that Atnst will.not bo' ablo to get down .to rowing weight at this season of tho year, and that he is'tiot likoly to be so well as ,ho was last December. Hbwever, he is now only some 31b. over tho weight at which ho wants to row (13st. 31b.), and r think he is going to,demonstrate on, June 23 that he is ' a faster and hotter sculler than ho was when lie won tho title. Even so, .he will probably find that in Webb ho is up against a doughty opponent, a man who will keep him at top all tho way, and perhaps beat him homo. '