AQUATICS.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1695, 26 July 1879, Page 3

AQUATICS.

SCULLING CHALLENGES.

The decision of the international race between Hanlan ar.d Hawdon appears to have somewhat stimulated the dormant energies of the rowing fraternity, and several challenges have since been issued. Mr Chris. Barrass has offered to back Robert Watson Boyd to row Wallace Boss over the Tyne Championship Course, in six weeks from signing the articles, for £IOO to £SOO a-eide, and in reply to this Wallace Boss offers to row Boyd for his own sum, over the Thames Championship Course, in six weeks from signing articles, and to allow the customary expenses. Nothing further has been decided in the matter up to the present time. John Hawdon, of Delava], challenged either Boyd or Kempster for a match over the Tyne course for £IOO a side, or he would take 10 sec. start over the same course from any man in the world, or, bar Hanlan, G sec start. In reply to this Mr Barrase, on behalf of Boyd, offers to match that sculler against Hawdon, giving the latter a length start, and row him any distance between half a mile and the full Championship Course for £2OO a side ; while Mr Mat. Forrest is willing to match J. Kempster, of Sunderland, against the Delaval sculler for a mile on the Tyne if the latter will stake £3OO to £IOO or £GOO to £2OO, or Kempster would take 10 sec. start over the full Tyne Championship Course. No doubt some of these suggestions will lead to business.

ELLIOTT AND COUBTNBIt.

The negotiations for a match between Elliott and Charles Couitney, of Union Springs, New York, on Saratoga Lake, in the month of August uext, are proceeding. No definite arrangement has, however, yet teen come to.

THE LAKE GENEVA REGATTA,

Commodore Ben. P. Grady, in speaking of the failure to get up a regatta on Geneva Lake, says:—‘‘We never could get English oarsmen to reply to our letters, and the regatta would have been a success had they responded. Austria, Germany, France, and Switzerland responded favorably, and we were assured of several entries from the United States. Hanlon wrote me he would enter the professional race, as likewise several English scullers. But we could not get a word from English amateurs." The “American Register,” published in Paris, tartly remarks :—lt is a well-known fact in the sporting world that Commodore Brady, of New York, acting with the Municipal Council of Geneva, has been for some months trying to get up an International Regatta, on the Lake Geneva, for the coming summer. Favorable answers have beep received

from all the nationalities invited to partici pate, except England. In throwirg a bucket of cold water on the proposed International Begatta at Geneva, the London “ Field ” comes out with an article strongly deprecating international contests of every description. We do not deem it impertinent to suggest that the following remar’ a >lc series o£ “victories” may have something to do with the “Field’s ” very marked aversion (o these international testa of strength and skill :—The victory of the yacht America, off Cowes, against all England ; and over twenty years after, her beating the Enfield yacht Lady Dnfferin, in New York harbor ; the victory of the four-oared crew of Ward are best adapted for dinner-table decoration, such as Cocos Weddelliana I think many gardeners grow this species in too high a temperature. I have seen plants grown in different degrees of heat, and those in the lower temperature were far the best. Such species as Kentia Fosteriana, Seaforthia elegans, Arena Verschaffeltii, and A. aurea are the best for general house decoration ; and for the dinner table, such as Areca aurea, A. lutesceas, Cocos Weddelliana, PicaioDorops fijsus, D. plumosus, D. palembmicup, and Geonoma gracilis, the plants beiog employed whilst in a small stated