ROWING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 242, 3 January 1928, Page 14

ROWING

By OUTRIGGER TURNER ON THE JOB W. Turner, the Tauranga sculler, intends to compete at the New Zealand championship regatta in February, and may row in the senior sculls. A most promising sculler, and a pillar of the progressive Tauranga Club, Turner owns a boat that was formerly the property of Paddy Hannan. On Wednesday last he was distinctly unlucky not to win the handicap sculls after he had made a wonderful recovery when in danger of tipping out through almost losing a scull. FALLACIOUS CLASSIFICATION One of the New Zealand Rowing Association’s fallacious rules is that which classifies as a senior a sculler who has won a handicap event. This appears to defeat not only the object of classification, which is to place scullers and oarsmen in well defined grades, but also the object of handicapping as well. There is room for more than a suspicion that in rowing, as well as in sculling, the existing classifications are too severe. Many a man who is more than a maiden or more than a junior is kept out of rowing, for an indefinite period, through inability to find a place in a crew in the grade above. WELTER-WEIGHT MAIDENS The experiment of including in the programme a race for welter-weight maidens, in the lOst 71b class, will be tried this season by the Wanganui Rowing Association, which is running the championship regatta, and good entries are already promised for this event. Before the war the junior welter-weight was a class that was very popular in Auckland, but it has lately been dropped. The virtue in such gradings is that they make provision for the light man who, after racing as a light-weight, puts on a little weight. * * * ODDS AND ENDS A. McKay, tne Waitemata skipper, spent th© holidays yachting, but was at Whangarei for yesterday’s regatta. A. B. Andrews, of the Auckland Club, was unable to get leave for the Tauranga regatta, but will turn out for later fixtures. Owing to the injury to Werges, who damaged his hand some time ago, the Otago senior four is participating in none of the holiday regattas in the South. F. Corlett, of Hamilton, is said to be under transfer to Auckland, where he will probably join the Waitemata Club. SAW THEM WIN The public works trains running to Tauranga are advertised to run on time-table, but did not do so last Wednesday, when the lateness of a train from Whakatane was responsible for the non-appearance of T. Wigley, Auckland, in the Youths’ Fours. When Wigley failed to materialise the Auckland Club transferred Thorburn from two to bow, and put Eaddy in the two seat. This combination, regarded as the outsider of the day, romped home from a good field, and Wigley, watching from the train as it crossed the railway bridge, was just in time to see them win.