SPLASHES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 882, 28 January 1930, Page 14

SPLASHES

Profiting by the weather. several crews rounded North Head on adventurous excursions during the weekend. P. Graham, who is sculling at .Hamilton tomorrow, was going well off Cheltenham. A sub-committee of the A.R.A. is meeting this evening to consider changes in the association's rules, which are necessary, as the A.R.A. is to be an incorporated body. The Auckland crew for the StuartReid Eights will be selected from the following:—Bridgart, Ross, Thorburn, Bygate. Andrews, Duck. McComish, Rose, Barrett, Martin. Albrecht, Porter. Bridgart is to be stroke, he having had considerable experience in eights in Australia. Auckland intends sending the juniors, the heavies and two other crews to compete in the Nixon Cup race on Saturday. This race is rowed under the jurisdiction of the Tamaki Yacht Club, and the trophy is at present held by St. George’s. So far West End selectors have been unable to get out a light-weight maiden four. It is however, hoped to have a crew for Ngaruawahia and the A.R.A. regatta on the Whau. Floyd Conway (West End) is not likely to start in the handicap sculls at Hamilton as he is starting in two other races—the maiden four and pair. NEXT SATURDAY Trial fours will be rowed by North Shore and Waitemata next Saturday, the latter club rowing for the W. E. H. Reynolds trophies. West End and St. George’s are likely to have an off-day on account of the tide, and Auckland intends concentrating on the Nixon Cup race. Secretaries of some of the City clubs are not aware that the Nixon Cup race is being held, but Auckland is quite definite on the point. * * * INTERPROVINCIAL EIGHTS Three selectors have been appointed by the A.R.A. to choose Auckland’s crew for the interprovincial eights which are to be rowed on the Whau qn March 22. The selectors sure Messrs. V. Dunne, C. C. Cairns and W. Oliver, and they will be looking for promising men from now on. A coach is to be appointed later and, among the names which are likely to come up for consideration is that of Mr. W. Logan, who was W. A. Stevenson’s coach. Mr. Logan did sterling work with the Hamilton senior four last season before the championship regatta. OARSWOMEN Devonport has a girl who is a success as number three in a four-oar crew. She practises regularly with the crew and has a neat style. Few of the beach habitues who watch the crews at work notice that the white jerseyed number three is a woman. Some years ago, both Whakatane and Tauranga Rowing Clubs trained girls’ “fours,” and they tried conclusions at the Tauranga Regatta. Indays gone by the Ngaruawahia Club had four girl “pairs,” and their trial races were always an attraction for spectators. The City clubs had oarswomen who used to go to Ngaruawahia to row at the St. Patrick’s Day Regatta. The early Mercer Maori regattas, as they were termed in the “nineties,” always had an event for girl rowers. They pulled in the old-fashioned dinghy, for, in those days, bridges were scarce, and many girls were expert in handling a boat on the rivers .* * * HAMILTON TOMORROW Rowing men from the City clubs and Tauranga will race at Hamilton tomorrow on the Waikato. In spite of the absence of Waitemata and Auckland crews, there is a total of 45 crews entering for 11 races, which gives an average field of satisfactory size considering that there are only fijve clubs competing at the fixture. The eights for the Somerville Shield race have been railed down, and the club boats were sent last evening. The Hamilton Club has offered to unload and store the club boats until the City oarsmen arrive in the morning. The most interesting events of the day should be the Somerville Shield eight-oared race, the senior fours, though only St. George’s are going to tilt at the champions. and the handicap sculls, with a good Hamilton representation, and two strong men from Tauranga in Turner the champion, and Haua. SHORE NOTES St. George’s light maidens were KI en 7ur S T °i me .?: XBr cise in the race for the Mcllwraith Cup on Saturday at Devonport. The pace of the ' two leading: boats was beyond the maidens but the row was good practice for Hamilton. Cotes is to be congratulated on winning the cup for the Shore, which club has won it for the second year m succession and five times altogether, f. J\ orris had a Shore crew that at one part of the race might have won second place, but Cotes’s pace, after passing the Devonport "Wharf, was too hot for all the others. Bright's St. George’s No. 1, had half a length lead there, but Cotes overhauled him and was going very strongly at the finish, while the St. George’s crew, especiallv the bow, was “all out.” West End made a. belated attack, and might have passed St. George’s if the course had been another 100 yards longer. The start of the race by Mr. V. Dunn was excellent, the starter having a capital position on the stern of the Nucula. The winning Shore crew nearly missed its appointment with the starter. Off the Sheerlegs Wharf it was discovered that a bolt in the rigger was loose and the help of a member of the crew of the Nucula had to be requisitioned to obtain a spanner, which was lowered on a line by a bluejacket from the Veronica, moored alongside the oiler.