BOATING SEASON OPENED.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 622, 27 September 1909, Page 9

BOATING SEASON OPENED.

.y}:X. ;;,;'A; PLEASANT ]?UNCTION^-v : ■■: '..;. boating season took/place, on-Saturday afternoon': under; very.. 'pleasant conditions." The'sun- shone, bright, j and several hundred vieitors/'-ihcluding. a largo proportion of ladios; assembled-at the sheds .'oi- the Star illcatiug Club and Wellington -Navals, which 'wore adorned,'with (lags 'olid bunting. Music wan!;pro'vidcd;,by 'Jiipp's Band, -'and .afternoon tiii Was served.• Oyer a doz<ui;race3',wbre' rowed, the events'exciting a good deal'of-interest.- The water -was a Jitlo .rough:-for facing, but-pot enough to iifaar the pleasure of the afternoon.,, ■'.'' The Mayor.: (Dr.; A.:, li'.. Newman) ; made';a short speech, in which'ho warmly-advised rowing': men to follow./the example .01 • the. footballand athletic bodies in sending teams to Engj land: and 'Australia. He referred .to thd aiic-. cess of -the AthlotesMvho recently visited .Australia, ■ and ■ also / to : tho example >of thS'. "All Blacks.'':: He did not'see why, teams ; of oadmeji'Shbuld not be likewise.sent abroad, and he-recommended the idea to the. Bowing'Association.'lf'tho difficulty of expense .were raised ho would , 'remind'them that that difficulty had also faced the prbjeot;6f sending, off tile: Athletes and the "AH Blacks" and ih:both,cases it had been triumphantly //overcome. / s Ncw Zeaiahders. had;acquitted thoraselvcs "n;ell in; Oxford' and Cambridge -rowing events, WO had produced tho champions, Webb and Ariist, and there'were other :hno oarsmen hero to draw upon, -v Ho referred to ithe stimulus which was given'; to .a sport w,hcn representatives /. were 'sent-''abroad to compete.: : '.'.';..:■;,■, : The .'-following were the results: of races. Mr. ,'R.:\V.'M'Villy was judge:— ' ::.',;.;.'. • ! Naval Cutter Eaco.—Wellington Navals, 1; No':'3 Company N.Z.A.V., 2. ; /Junior: pours.—Pirst; heat) Wellington 8.C.,, I;' Wellington College,-2. .Second heat: Petone 8.C., 1;' Star 8.C.,: 2. Pinal: /Wellington 8.C., l'j.Petone 8.C.,,2. ■■: "■'■ . -•--: ■.■-::■/ ■ Senior Pours.+Pifst heat : Wellington R.C-, 1; Star-8.C., 2. Second heat: 'Star '8.C., 1 and 2. Pinal: Wellington 8.C., 1; Star 8.C., 2. : •Veterans' 1 Pours.—Star 8.C.;, 1; -Wellington' ■K.C.,:2.. : ->■:''■'■ .'"'-""/■ ':'■■:'-:' -•-.!' . Junior Double Sculls.—Wellington; 8.C.; 1; Star 8.C.; 2.'-' ."-/'V-/'- . ; '.:""/ -'' -."' Senior .Cutters, Bac?.—Present, 1; Veterans, ■' 'Speci.al.'.Bace.—No. 2 Wellington Navals, 1; 'Engineers; 2., '■>'" :■' :■ '-'-/ .' ■ " "' '*"-,- /■/Senior Double Soulls.-Star B.C.* 1; Wellington .:H.C„ 2. "■:• ' . ■•.-■' ' ./'•■,■','■:;";■