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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 881, 20 August 1910, Page 2

More kudo for New Zealand. Arnst has succeeded in holding the title to the world’s sculling championship. Webb was a more serious proposition to Arnst than Barry the English champion. So great was Barry’s fame as a sculler in England that within a very short lime the sum of was subscribed to enable him to meet Arnst on the Zambesi. Before they started, Guy Nickalls, a noted and champion amateur sculler, who played a prominent part yesterday as Barry’s backer, said : “ Englishmen need not feel in the least bit alarmed as to Barry’s chances of recovering the championship for this country. The mere fact that he can beat any pair of double scullers in this country and make a treble sculler sit up is sufficient proof of his qualities, if no other were required.” When Innes, another noted expert, first saw Barry in a boat he wrote, “ Ernest Barry will be world’s champion.” But neither of these experts had seen Dick Arnst in a boat, and so they spoke from lack of knowledge. The New Zealander is under promise to meet Barry again on the Thames, so that the world’s experts may have a chance of seeing this aquatic wonder. But where is the man who can extend him. ?