SCULLING.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1826, 6 August 1906, Page 3

SCULLING.

VETERANS’ RACE WON BY KEMP LAYOOOK’S GRAND FINISH. CKKSS ASSOCIATION — COVI'RIGHT R"oeived 8 8 p.m., August 4. I

Sydney, August I The Veterans’ Race rosulted : Kemp 1 Layccck 2 Reynolds 3

Reoeived 5.20 p m., August 5. Sydney, August 5. The weather was fine and the water smooth. There wr.s an enormous attondaoor. Tbo betting was sto 4 Kemp and 2to 1 Beach. Too ooursn wai about a mile and a half. From a goad star) Beach first went in pursuit of Green. Tbo latter j maintained his advantage with surprising vigo-, and was not displaced until Tonny- I son was ror.ohod. Hero Kemp, who hud steadily improved his position, went to I the front, Beach boing third. Tbo latter I got into seoond position soon after. Then I Layccck, spurting brilliantly, went up seoond off ibo gaswo>k->. and going strongly, bnd overhauled Kemp as Puinoy. The wash from a launch mterfe-ed wiih I Laycock, but despite this is took Kemp all ko oould do to keep in the front tn the finish. He won by ha’f a length, Beach fonr lengths off third, followed by Peareo, I Reynolds, Rush, and Green iu that order. The time was 8.40. Six crews siarted for tbo Ladies’ Double ( Championship, whiob was finely oontf-ned v from start to finish, an! was won by Mesdames Woodbridge and Hyde, wbo covered the mile and a half coarse iu f 12.82, c