AMATEUR SCULLING
PEARCE EASILY WINS CHAMPIONSHIP. Press Association— By Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, December 22. Bob Pearce, the Olympic champion cleaved away to win the New . South Wales Amateur Sculling Championship by twenty legths. Jackson (New Zealand) was unplaced. The rough water did not suit him. Pearce’s victory gave him his third successive win of the State sculling title. Getting well away, Pearce established an early lead, and, settling down for the long course of 3m 167yds, lie sculled one of the greatest races of his career. The further he went, the greater became his lead. /The second man, Scott, who has the making of a good sculler, finished Imin osec after Pearce. Jackson nearly capsized a couple of times in the rough water. Scott beat the third man (Gouldin) by seven lengths, then came Jackson, a similar distance away, fourth. Stewart did not finish. The champion eights was won by the Mosman crew from Sydney No. 1, with Sydney No. 2 third. Mosman ran away and finished 200yds in front of the escond crew. It was Mosman’s seventh win in eight rowing seasons.— Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 11
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185AMATEUR SCULLING Evening Star, Issue 20057, 24 December 1928, Page 11
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