Aquatics
By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright. |PKR UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, January '31. Neil Matterson, who is at preseut m Wellington training Stephenson for his match with Hearn, has issued a challenge to Peter Kemp, ex- champion, to row him for £500 a- side and the championship of the world. Matterson is anxious that the. match with Kemp should corns off before the arrival of O'Connor, who left England for the colonies on Monday last. Later. Kemp has accepted Matterson's challenge, and fixed the .date of the match for April, Wellington, This Day. Matterson explains that he is not anxious to row Kemp before O'Connor's arrival, but wishes that a match should be arranged at once, so that the Australians decide the championship, and the winner meet the Canadian. Matterson rows McLean, of Richmond; on Maroh 28, and expects the match with ' Kemp with be rowed about the end' of , April. Matterson and Stephenson visit the South after the match here to-day between the latter and Hearn, to take- part in the sculling raoe at the Dunedin Exhi- ' bition Regatta.
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Feilding Star, Issue 94, 1 February 1890, Page 2
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180Aquatics Feilding Star, Issue 94, 1 February 1890, Page 2
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