ABOUT ROWING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 718, 18 January 1910, Page 6

ABOUT ROWING.

v IS WELLIHGTON DECADENT? [Br "Stroke Oab."]'- 1 ;'tfia£ !at jtheiregatta .j '\ SatTir- ' perfect /weatfer coiidi-, ; ton Bomng-Club (secured one first place ataou'ghimt the','day.' 'The-iraferal' query Sa—Wiiy? '' "Oiidor.. ordinary. circumstances uocal-clubs- always \ have -ak ..'advantage -seldom fcopportroity, t&Jrowover.the' course-prior, fto in'whieh' they, are engaged," jbut'.this advantage -does not appear to. helped . the localmen; ono iota, in Jeccurrag a. fiist plaoo against riyer-tiajned.> pnetL\' Further,, "VfelliDgboa"'' must ";, tieces-: Wxrily haTC' .choioo.of 'meii froin' fcwliom.to pick their -CTews;Vyeti (ie xepith .jsentafces.:pf smaller! vclnbsr were 'able; bo': "BhoKiOTir. way.-..TBns'.is senous. di should;.not'be':.in: s a-} seaport'Uke. AVel-; -SnigtoaV-?<>irag,"f]>eiQre;^ icvcu bowhs—should occupy a'spocial placed it;,TOS..in-the days of Budson, Bose, SSullhan, and: H?Kay,: those mighty poll>era.'.'of::twenty. yeaxs.ago. ,Si;Ebere-is;!one 'reason that' might be..as-• Isigned. for what looks very like decadence: Sn .'our- rowing' 6onstitntKJiL.S:V. , F6r J.' many■ yearspost the.rowingicliis'ihaie.:hadv.to' fight for their vecy hvc6 to retain. their -'.present ; si.tes'in..that;(»cnar. of the har/ilKwir/lnear . foot; ot'.Xaramtki SJtreet. jOnimoie,. thai one oocasjori' the:order - his '(almost* gone out that would go a good ;siray. towards -wiping; oat rowing 111 Wellington. . ..The -hand , that iresfcrained has;. . uioweyer,;:under £the ■"■' foroe (one..'assmnes), . jßf commercial. necessity,. so 'bnilt in the ; Borner- with 'whanses that' 'the ;two chilis hoeh "soV cribbbd ainiVcoiLfiiKd .that--'.tho allractiveiMiM of rowing as arecreartion'.has suffered more.than can. be'estimated, and young men, who" should bo ' jcierting; themselves to spirio purpose on ' .[the sliding seat, are plajing'bowls or are the -ranks of tie "lookers-on." );,Iri. : .a 'ymin'g : cou'ntry';llko 'no • young anan 'in. possession: of good -health should jbe a spectator—he «howd bo -a performor, indifferent v - The local! rowing - ohibs arc 1 ia'anm)J: jfortniiate ■ positio'n,. it mast be conceded. ifTlie'y.site:^-r:tl»^«daTis\&- ; iTO:'.onß' ii' harbour, when. ' the-v- prevaiEng rwmds are ■ considered, as it .makes both ' k the northerly and southerly: ccrarsceavail*ablo m. ordinarily decent weather. :?Thss reason, together with the.,fact 'that itho. sheds rao centrally situated, makes [the' prospect of 'a''shift objectionable,to : (the clubs, tat to one ,who has. • stndied (the'growth' of ; Wellington's ..irater-front > 'traffic • for manyi;years ■ past 'it seems'; in-, "veritable'that-at some.date in the future ? ;'li'thfi ! : irksome, ; i'cnd inconvenient that a change. of site. ,;.)vrill i be' necessary :in - the • interests 1 'of ■ row- ' •.ijig : men: themselves. ••'..• i'Sv-In '.thii; nieah'fcime.M t.V is.' earnestly: hoped ?ithat-jthe made iby' the. iWdluig-, ton" oarsmen, on Saturday;does;ii<)t : indir" :' -cate a 'decadencG.'-'acd' that 'our men virill i .juake good at, thie championship regatta ' :to- be. held, at PicUm on Anniversary JJ)ay.