NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 705, 3 January 1910, Page 9

NOTES FROM WANGANUI.

BOAT-SHED GOSSIP. (By Telegraph.— Special Correspondent.) | Wanganui; January 2. i For the impending sculling handicapy the | ohief interest outside of Arnst, and- Webb centres in. Hagney, Feltonj and ; Mitchell; | The' first-named' is showing considerdble improvement onliiii Foxton form and get® good pace on." his 1 boat;: despite/ the fact that, his style is still ■ a - trifle . rugged: 'W ; ith'jlo»6,:..3tart.-:.1i6, ';«M»iddvbe: able to make ■: a' good - showing against • those •. in front /of . himj . though he will .probably find himself up against something solid in Rawhiti. . Whether he will, be able to keop in front of Webb, or Arnst, should ■he meet 'themv in the..final, is doubtful. . Felton, with 13sec., looks a fairly. good 1 proposition.-. He, sculls T\itli plenty of dofcerminationi and some power, though it .does vhot.vs'eeia >possibtey^^ win from Arnsf in the ; first, heat, provided the champion is himself. .Mitchell is a pretty' sculler,with : r a;. good' tuf n v of speed, • N.tiiitlieu is.; riota good/dietance man, and,- if Webb is in.foim, the, second •heat should go to the ex-champion. Ra* whiti. will probably give -.Hdgney-most trouble' in the third -heat* as■■ already stated,' but; being .a heavy- man, .he is difficult to boat.. His old craft .was, far too light for. him,, and.twhen , out a few. days, ago on rough-.water, -she,.collapsed in* several pieces under. then he has been using. "Jim" Stanbury's old boatj' which'the ,Wanganui Club, offered him, and has been making a bettor sliapd in • her. - As a--Now Zealandetj Rawhiti naturally carries the > • hopes , and,, good wished vof '• manypeople;''here;,ibut:. : the' probabilities are that Hagney should, bb able ito get homo ah6ad or himj of the 15s:j. difference in their handi 1 • caps.t' ,The - weither - for. .the w&fek lifts been - distinctly; - unfavourable , for. training, a strong wind.and iough water v'.'ihe', • men. •• '-on V several;' - siona' to .take land exercisfc instead; of getting-'afloaL-.: ; ;•