AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 138, 22 May 1884, Page 2

AQUATIC CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

The Sydney Morning Herald of May 3rd has the following re the arranging of the match between Hanlan and Laycock: — “At the Oxford Hotel, last night, articles of agreement were signed between Edward Hanlan, champion sculler of the world, and James Hunt, landlord of the hotel referred to, for a race to be rowed between Hanlan and Elias Laycock, of Sydney. The stakes are £5OO aside, and the sum of £6OO has been deposited, and the race will take place on the Nepean River, in best and best boats. interesting event will come off on the afternoon of Thursday, the 22nd instant, and a course will be marked out for a distance Of about 3Jmiles, and extending from near the Gorge to within a hundred yards of the Nepean Bridge. It has been arranged that the start shall be by mutual consent, but if it is not made within fifteen minutes after the men are at their posts, the umpire will start the men by signal, or in any other way he may elect. The race is arranged to commence at a quarter-past three o’clock, and if only one competitor is then present, he will be entitled to the stakes, qo matter what causes the other to be absent. In the event of the river being unfitted for the race in consequence of flood or drought, the umpire may decide upon a postponement, but he will not have power to choose another course. The men will pull according to the recognised new rules which arc used by the Oxford and Cambridge Universities, so far as they are not inconsistent with the articles of agreement. The final deposits will have to be placed in the hands of Mr. T. M. Alcock, who has been appointed stakeholder, by the 20th instant. Mr. P. J. Clarke will act as umpire.”