Rowing

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 22

Rowing

By "Btr.k«."

WEATHER INTERFERES

LOCAL SEASON

REDDING SHIELD CONTEST

Rowing in Wellington has had a bad start this season, rough weather preventing for two -Saturdays running the holding of the Bedding Shield contest. There was some discussion at the meeting of the W.B.A. this week as to whether tho contest should not be definitely wiped off the- slate for this" season, the shield to be awarded to the club gaining most points at the local regatta to be held in January next. Some members expressed the opinion that the Bedding Shield regatta, which was originally intended to be contested at the opening of the season by crews which had had little practice, was today being taken too seriously. In at least one- club members had been out training solidly jjor the contewt—and gradually becoming worse. It was pointed out that the season had been opened a week earlier in order to have the con-tos-t run off and to allow clubs to get on with their own competitions; i-.nd the W.K.A. might as well finish the job'now it had begun it. Accordingly it was decided to hold the legatta today. STAR BOATING CLUB. The Star Boating .Club has some fifteen or sixteen" new members. Eight new racing oars and a dozen new pracr tiee oars have been purchased, and members are now engaged in repainting the club's whaleboats. It was pleasing to see at the opening of the season a large number of old members. An innovation was the taking of ladies out for a spin in the whaleboats. It is very many years since this wag- Cone, although at one time it was quite' a common practice. On the Ladies' Tours Day, set.down for February 3, it is intended to repeat the proceeding. The programme for Star's season is as follows: —Novice pairs and Fitzgerald fours, Monday, October 15; junior and senior fours, Ist heat, November 5; President's fours (open to all oarsmen), Ist heat, November 26; Norman Duncan Memorial, Saturday, December 1; junior pairs, Ist heat, December 17; junior and senior single sculls, Ist heat, January 14; McLean Bethuno fours, Ist heat, February 16; Ladies', fours, Saturday, February 3; Whaleboat Memorial race (Old Members' Day), February 23; junior and senior double sculls, Ist heat, March 9; senior "pairs, Ist heat, March 28. WELLINGTON CLUB. An important event in tho Wellington Club's activities this season is the boating of a senior four. It is now several years since the club had a senior four in competition and it is hoped that in this, the club's jubilee year, tho four will perform with distinction. . The club has twenty new members to date, bringing the total membership to eighty. It is hoped that delivery of One of the new tub pairs will be made this weekend to enable new members to receive more attention. Considerable delay in the training of ne^y recruits has been caused ljy bad weather, but, had the builders delivered the boats on the date agreed, the resulting inactivity of new members would have been obviated. To commemorato fifty years of active sport the club is arranging a number of functions this season. A jubilee dinner and reunion at the Bitz Lounge is to be held this evening and a jubilee ball will take place later in the season. Several old members days are also to be held. PETONE CLUB. What promises to be an excellent season confronts, the Petone Club. The clubhouse, to which a wide balcony has recently been added, and the plant are in first-class order, and full facilities are provided now that new practice oars have been put into commission. The club has some '20 now members this season, and the entry list is full. All members are displaying keenness, although bad weather has not. allowed much opportunity of practising. Each new member has been allotted to a senior oarsman whose duty it is to coach the novice in his charge. Under this system the following crews have been paired off and will race later in the senior and novice race: Kirk and King; Gardiner and Drummond; Bigby and Linney; Crane and Douglas; Slinn and Morrison; Sharon and Smith; Anderson and Boss; Pritchard and Lawrence; Duncan and Tegg; Duncan and Brodie; Edmonds and Murray; Bishop and Nuttall; Wakelin and Wakelin; Hope and Howe; Mcßride and Perkinson; Clayton and Hill; Crabtree and Scott; Gane and Calvert.

The trial Fours ,will bo held next week, weather permitting. This club competition is open to all members with the exception of novices.