THE BARRY-PEARCE RACE.
PRESS CRITICISM
[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] London, July 22.
Pearce lost much ground by going too far into the Bay. Barry had an eight lengths lead at Barnes’s and then slowed down and sculled within himself to the finish.
The Sportsman says that the race was a disappointment but clean and honest. Barry never won more handsomely or easily. Pearce’s stylo war typically Australian and unsuited to the Thames. { , The Daily Mail suggests that the result was a triumph of style against strength. The Standard says that the victory was a triumph for English style, proving it to be the best over a long course.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 23 July 1913, Page 5
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110THE BARRY-PEARCE RACE. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 66, 23 July 1913, Page 5
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