ROWING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1102, 15 April 1911, Page 12

ROWING.

(Br Memory.)! Our Friends, Fogwcll and Whelch. There are no regattas at Easier time of any importance, and none at. all that concern lo:al oar-men. -Therefore the eyes of boating men will be fixed on the one nquntic event offering, (ho race between George Whelch, o( Akaica, and "Billy" Fojwell. of Australia, for the professional championship of the Dominion and £2ttn a-?ide. II will be remembered thai, on Easier Monday, 1909, these scullers met over the same course when the New Zealander decidedly surprised the Australian party, and not a few of llic local critics, by winning comfortably. On I hat occasion "Whelch had the advantage'of the tutelage .and company of William Webb throughout his training course, and benefited accordingly. This time he has been working on his own, except for" odd pacing given him by members of the local rowing club, so he is not at all suro how he is going in his work. That he will be fit may bs taken for granted—ho is never otherwise—but whether his boat work is up to the mark must be left to Monday's race, to decide. Fogwell, on the other liMid, has had plenty of work in good company up to the time of the ParraI'j.ilta Hundred.

The Race as Fogwell Sees It,

In discussing Monday's race with a ''Press" reporter recently, Fogwoll stated that he expected to put up a much better fight than when he rawed the Akaroa man previously. "Although I havo not been in a boat since I rowed in the Pairamatta Hundred a fortnight ago," he said, "I hope to get fit by the time Easter Monday comes round. I am at present feeling tip-top, but, of course, I have to with change of climate and many drawbacks that crop up whin 'you come away from home. You can, at anyrate, depend on a ding-dong go as far as lam concerned. My friend bore, Jack Arnst, is to take mo in hand, and with about nine days' systematic training, both on water and land, I anticipate getting into racing fettle." On being questioned in regard to the prize-money, the Australian stated that the race was for a stake of .£2OO a-side, and in order to make the match he had to allow Whelch to take the whole rf the "gate" money, win or lose. "Yoa will readily understand," said Fogwell, "that that is hardly fair to me, for if I win I only get Whelch's <£200, but no sharo of the 'gate.' ' Should I lose, they allow me .'£,iO for expenses. This is a most unusual agreement, but it was the best I could get."