TRICKETT CHALLENGED FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

Evening Star, Issue 4306, 14 December 1876, Page 4

TRICKETT CHALLENGED FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP.

Referring to Rush’s challenge to Trickett to row for the championship, the ‘ Sydney Morning Herald ’ says ; —Rush expects to receive boats from England in a short time, and it is said will then he prepared to meet Trickett. There certain proposals by Rush which would seem to complicate the matter, namely, to bring Higgins out here” and row a “ three-handed ” race for the championship, a course which Sadler refused to adopt on the Thames. To decide which is the better of the two men—and there can be no doubt that both are first-class rowers— it would be a much more simple process for them to row for the championship of the world herefor the regular amount a-side, L2OO, and leave England to send out a man to wrest it from the winner if he can. To import a rower specially for that purpose would certainly be an act of the highest liberality, but one for which there is at present no piecedent. If the people of England value the honor to the extent for which they have credit, it will not be long before a representative of the Old Country will put in an appearance on the waters of Port Jackson to make an effort to restore the championship of the w®rld to the Thames or the Tyne.