THE REGATTA.
To the Editor, Sir, —In reply to your correspondent “ Fair Play,” whose letter appeared a few days back, I would inform him that the definition of the term “ amateur,” according to the Sydney rules, is “ anyone not earning his living by manual labor.l would explain the delay in Bending this reply by stating that I have been endeavoring to procure an authorised copy of the rules, out at present without success, and therefore cannot give the rule in extenso, but merely the gist of it. Heavy four-oared boats we have had more difficulty in defining, and this is the reason that the management committee must approve of the boats on entrance What is intended is to get up a race for boats other than racing gigs, or lighter skiffs.—l am, &c., A Committee-man. Dunedin, December 6.
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Evening Star, Issue 3989, 7 December 1875, Page 2
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138THE REGATTA. Evening Star, Issue 3989, 7 December 1875, Page 2
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