SCULLING.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 464, 10 July 1909, Page 3

SCULLING.

L ' The Sydney, Referee, in referring to the sculling championship, ■ is saysS-AWebb and Arast’g. stain. . . JSsec. for the mile is a fecord inf i'. any weather. » The rape op the 22nd, although rowed- in grand ■ , - - time, was beaten under somewhat similar conditions by Nielsen in 1992. In tße secotid heatjof the F&ramatta River Sculling Handi- 1 cap (rowed September 26, 1892), Nielsen, Kemp, and Towns com- . peted. Kemp was expected ;to win. With a strong ebb tide in addition to a “fresh ” under the , the men, and a good westerly.be-, hind them, Nielsen cut but the course in 17mm. 46^sec. Times for the points were: Mile, smin. agsec.; Putney Bmin ißsec.; Tennyson, 1 ora in. sosec. ; " Gladesville, 13mm. sosec. One Man Wharf, ismin. 48sec. : , finish 17 mm. sec. The previous record was made on, June 26th, 1891, when Sullivan beat .j. Butch in iSmin. 3isec. Sullivan’s 7 times were: Mile/* smin. ipsec.; . . Putney, Bmin. iSsec.; Gladesvllle, i4min. iqsec.; One Man Wharf, i6min, 22sec.; finish, iSmin.. 7 4i}£sec7 Thus - " Sullivan’s mile (although he took- longer for thW course) was faster'; than Nielsen's by rosec.; but 1 Webb and Arnst’a was 4 sec. fastef still. Artist’s ' times were: One mile, srain. 15 sec.; 2 miles,. lomin. srj^sec.; zH miles, iSmin. issec. If aaythiag Vi Webb just led at the mileabout a quarter of a length.