Rowing Notes.

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 128, 13 December 1902, Page 19

Rowing Notes.

By Native.

Tli© fine weather prevailing lately has enabled the local olubs to get in a fine amount of practice, and club racing. In the Star Club Junior Pairs Kitohing and Killiok beat Hamilton and Barrcxn in the final, after a good race. The following crews have been selected for the Star Boating Olub's Fitgeraild Fours; first heat to be rowed om Saturday next — H. Barron (bow x W. N. Smith (2* J. M. Burnett (3), A. J. S. Thompson (stroke) ; H. Langdon. W. H. Warren W. Mcßeth, R. L. Evatt (stroke) , J. Orr, W. J. Stevenson, A. H. Johnstone, H. A. Cooper (stroke)F. Nancarrow, W. "Wilkinson, H Smith, D. R. Menzies 'stroke)- G. D'Emden, A. Macdonald N. Smythe, D. T. Mowat (stroke) , H. Fulton. J. J. MoLeod, J. Hamilton, F. Barclay (stroke) , A. Turnbull. H. yon Dadelszen, A. E. Boyes. J. A. McLeod (stroke) ; R. Buckley, — G. Watson, W. Alexander R. Gray (stroke) : J. W. Minifie, R. O. Chesney, J. Northev, F. Gill (.stroke), R. Weston, H. Buddie. E. Pickering. G. H. Fell (stroke) H. Raymand. E. Kilhck, J. Brewer, H. Kitchmg (stroke). Evatt, Kitchin,^, and Menziesi seem to be the pick. Menzies ought to« win. The Wellington Club have got a challenge orew in training against the Maiden selection. The crew consists of H. Jones. C. Jones, W. Evans, and J. Ellison. I think that they will make it lively for the present selection. There has been an alteration in the Star Maiden Crew, Duff being taken out for some reason outside of his capabilities as an oarsman, I should say. Wheeler has taken his place, and is certainly worth a place in the crew, but I think that any of the remaining three might have been taiken out before Duff. Bow and stroke are still rowing badly, the former preferring to us© his arms, whilst the latter is still falling forward at the beginning of the stroke. A Maiden, challenge orew, consisting of Evatt, Alexander, Gill, and Macbetih is also in training from the club. I like their chance, but think that the orew would have been strengthened by tihe inclusion of Duff and Mowat in place of Alexander and Macbeth. The Star Junior crew is still going slow, paying special' attention to the catohi and drive, which is becoming effective. There is likely to be a break up in the senior crew, by the probable departure of A. T. Bendall from Wellin~ton. I will not be surprised 1 to see him in the Canterbury Senior Four before the season closes. Ido not think that the Star Club's chance for the Champion Fours will be lessened. There is likely to be trouble between the N.Z.A.R.A. and the Akaroa and Lyttelton Regatta Committees in connection with the class of boat for the Maiden races. The Regatta Commititees want the. Maiden Pairs and Double Sculls rowed in the stump outriggers generally used in Canterbury, but. as the rules of the N.Z.A.R.A. state that all Maiden Races must be rowed in boats as defined by the Association, the Managing Committee are insisting on the rules being observed. The only way out of the difficulty is to change the name of these races 1 , and row them under the Maiden qualification. The Riverton Regatta is to be held on Boxing Day. The Southland Amateur Rowing Association hasi been formed, with a membership of five clubs. Local associations have also been formed in Otago. Canterbury, and Wellington. I presume that the Northern. Rowing Union will merge into the Auckland Rowing Association. Likewise, the Wamgranui Regatta Association into the Wanganui Rowing Association. This will leave Hawke's Bay, Marlborough, and the West Coast and Nelson clubs to move in the matter of establishing local associations. They will not be recognised as clubs after the sth January. The following officers have been elects ed by the newly-formed Otago Rowing Association. — President, Mr. John White- vice-presidents. Messrs. L. R. Wilson, John Mills, J. Galbraith, A. E. Gascoigne, and S. S. Myers; secretary and treasurer, Mr. W. L. Hooper. •There is a membership of six clubs with about 500 members. The Canterbury Rowing Club will be represented bv the following crews at Akaroa — Junior Fours' — H. Hobbs, S. Styche, Horsley, R. Lake; Maiden Fours— C. Hobbs, R. Appleby, E. C. Little, R. Hobbs, Junior Double Scullsi — W. Evans and G. Beauchamn ; Maiden Double Sculls — Mcllwraith and Little : Youths' Double Sculls— E. Guthrie and Beattie. The following will represent the Union Rowing Club — Junior Double

Sculk— F. Otley and A. Barlow; Youths' Double Sculls— A. Webb and H. Mansfield; Madden Double Sculls — W. Duggan and T. Chambers, and P. Ebert and J. Tibbald. At the Mercer Regatta, on the 29th ult., the Waitemata Bowing dub won both Maiden Races, West End the Junior Fours, and Auckland the Senior Fours. West End and Waitemata rowed a dead heat in the Junior Fours, and in the row-off West End won by two lengths. Mr. George Lee is retiring from his position of custodian of the Star Boating Club. I understand that a Sydney resident will replace him. A presentation, is to be made to Mr. Lee on behalf of the members on the 19th instant.

Lempnere Pringle, the stalwart and handsome singer, is in Melbourne, and ia playing ''Faust" for Mr. Geo. Musgrove. * • • George Wirth, of circus fame, wails tihat he has lost one night a week through bad weather during his New Zealand tour. Finest climate in the world, too! * * » Still another Hebrew gentleman takes his wife from the stage. Mr. Louis Schatz of Wellington, will marry Miss Connie Butt el, of Pollards in March next. Amy Castles is t pped to warble m Sydney in January and elsewhere colonially thereafter. ' This is o-athered from a recrudescence of Amy literature in the Churoh press of "t'other side." John Fuller No. 2 commenced a Victorian tour last Saturday. His silvertenor parent, who is busy running three Tasmanian houses, is at present in Wellington, where he is making arrangements to instal one of his Biiou companies at the Choral Hall. * • * An old sinner, who haunts the stage dors of a Southern theatre issuing invitations to fair players to picnics and things, is, fortunately, unable to attend any such distraction at present. Some of the little chaps who throw "flips are awfully strong, and some of them are married. * • • The young lady in the Opera House, the other night, who was asked to remove her hat, so that a gentleman might see what was happening to Godfrey, remarked that if she. held the article on her lap she would block out her own view. * * * FitzGerald Bros., fearing the threatened invasion of Buffalo Bill, are putting in some really novel "turns" in their Melbourne Hippodrome. Among them are swnrming horses, prisoners escaping, and bloodhounds dogging, bullocks, elephants, and other non-salaried animals in the menaeerie swimming across an enormous tank of water extending the full length of the arena. * » * 'Dick Whittangton" will prop up, m gorgeous array, on both sides of the Tasman Sea, at Christmas. Williamson and MusErrove cm the "other side," and Percy Dix this side, have decided that it is "the only wear." Dainty Olive Lenton is to be "Dick" in Wellington. The Williamson Comedy Company had the honour last week of opening his Majesty's, at Dunedin the newest and, admittedly, the best theatre in New Zealand. "The Runaway Girl," it is perfectly safe to say, filled the house as it has never been filled before on the 3rd December, and the comfort-loving "Scotties" have been filling it in the same style ever since. * * * 'Twas &aad a while ago Harry Riekards had threatened to go Home to Suffolk, to take un farming, with a special regard to horsebreeding. Now, the. vaudeville monarch, is settled down in su magnificent new residence, "Carthonai," at Darling Point, Sydney and is buying up airti, it is evident feksLt he has given the "gee-gee" idea beet. Mdle. Dolores has been belling an interviewer how to sing. 'I, don't suppose he wants to know, but he is telling people through the medium of his paper. When one remembers the Grecian bend, the .Roman hump, and the various attitudes assumed by the average singer who is anxious to show her jewellery, or bis massive neck to tihe best advantage, it is interesting to know the correct position of the body for the ideal singer, to assume. *•♦ i > liazern, the mystic, is Harry Rickards's latest capture. He eventuates on Monday m Sydney, ajid elsewhere as the fates direct. His weird, clammy business is said by the "Era" to be the most fascinating "turn" ever seen in London, and he alternates a deluge of spirit hands in the air with comedy. It is said that by a wave of the hand he can delude a t>erson in the audience into the belief that his other self is staring at him from behind the footlights, and that the audience is able also to see the "alter ego."