SCULLING.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1677, 18 February 1913, Page 6

SCULLING.

AKNST CHALLENGES PADDON. By Telegr*ph—Prosi Aeioolatlon—Copyright * Sydney, February 17. Arnst has challenged Paddon to row the 6culling championship of Australia,' - / THE NEW CHAMPION. James Paddon, ,of Evans Head, "rrho won tho Australasian sculling champion* ship on Saturday, is described as tapping the beam at list, tall, powerful, and yell developed. In .fact, ho is one of the tall, est and weightiest men who has ever taken ' to the sculls. ' . , ■ ' Born at livans Head on November 19. • 1886, Paddon's age is a little over 26, and during most of Mb boyhood and early manhood ho has been accustomed to heavy ;; boats, both at sea and on tho river, lowing the cultivation of the oyateiv' ■ . Lismore\was. the scene of his. first, tri* umph, when' in October, 1910, as an amatcur, ho won a race in olub 6kins ;ovor a mjlo course. Altogether the aspirant for the/Australlan Championship rowed nine races in club skiffs, including'two championships, with tho same result—he won them all., In fact, he has never met' with dtfeat in this class of boat,,,and has givon away good starts. Ho forsook'■ this type of rowing about October, 1912, ; and j6mod the professionals. His first race was at Coraki • Regatta, when, over a courso of two miles, with ;42sec. from Arnst, on scratch) he succeeded in gain* ' ing second place". . ' , ! At Broadwater'Regatta a little'. later, with 18sec. from Syd.Komp, he won. His next race was on the Parramatta last . April in the big handicap, when, though unplaced in;his heat, ho finished strong and hard, and must have forged into second place after' a gruelling row had ho 1 not finished the wrong side of tho judge's boat. His height is"6ft. 4}in., •■.• weight list., chest (normal) iljin,, expanded iGin. . • '