Scnlling Championship. AN EASY VICTORY FOR KEMP

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 243, 25 February 1888, Page 8

Scnlling Championship. AN EASY VICTORY FOR KEMP

Pet'br Kemp has lowed his sculling race for the championship of the world, and lla» proved victorious. Tho title? which washanded to him by William Boach he can now claim in his own right, having at any rato defended it against the iirst coiner Thomas* Clifford was hopole.-dly beaten' and has handed over hi* stakes,, £200, to bis more accomplished competitor. The event was regarded as ono of no little importance in aquatic circles and by the general public. Sportsmen lwd been excited over it for days previously, and on Saturday people flocked in thousands to the Parramatta»Rivor to view tho race. I Particular* of the race have already been published. ' [ '

Hanhm v. BJellson. Hanlan and Neilson met at Beach'» Hotel, to arrange matters in, connection wifeli their race. As is tolerably well known, this match, \> \ich is for £200 a-side, was made at Graf tori at the commencement of January last, Hivhlan agreeing to row NeiLson oyor a two-mile course oh the, Clarence &nd give him" <i start of 3j'lerifgtfis. l% If the' race is rowed*oh-the parramatta it may t£ake place on the 24thinstant. ' The'course will doubtless be from Tehjhyson to Charity Point. '

Haitian v. Kemp for the €hani|>iouship. Immediately after the termination of tho boat race on Saturday afternoon Hanlan challenged Kemp to. row ior £500 a-sido and the sculling championship. The challenge was promptly accepted by the Hawke&bury man's friends—in fact, one leading sportsman offered to back Kemp to row Hanlan or any other man in Australia /or -£500 a-sidfr. At a meeting held at Beach's Hotel on. Saturday evening, tho preliminaries of. the proposed match between the Hawfcesbury man and the Canadian were talked over, and it was ultimately agreed to po&fc'pono the matter until Tuesday evening,, when the articles binding che match will prabajjly bo read ovor and. signed by the parties* interested. Kemps friends are willing that he should meet Hanlan, but they are not inclined to let him row again under three months, as they consider that he aeeds. a good long re-t after the almost cohbiauoud hard work he has been doing lately, on tho Nepean and the Parramatta. Qn. the other hand, it is- believed thab the Hawkesbury man's supporters would be agreeable for him to meet the Canadian, next Saturday; but Hanlan is nob likely to concede to this.

Interview?'. Interviews with tho contestants, and with a keenly observant onlooker—Edward Hanlan—subsequent to tho race, go towards amply proving (.hat the event was a onesided one from tho start to tho finish. Space unlimited might be occupied in connection with a detailment of either man's views. Suinmari&ed, they cue to the following effect: — Clifford stated that at the outset he and his backers felt confident as to the issue. Ho was lit, well, hcaity, and encouraged. Throe or four false starts occurred, but his antagonist got away with the jump, and led at the eighth of a mile. At the mile he (Clifford) was bohiml iully four lengths, and then (lie frunkly admits) the flag was down to all intents and purposes, although ho resolved to do what he could. After passing the Caaworks, said he, "we drew too clo?ely to tho shore, and I nearly fouled a steamer, I think my leader gaining a couple of lengths. It was all the same, however, for he had me ; I was tired all over and pumped out. It was a fair square race, but Peter was too rauch for mo. What olsocanltellyou than thatl was rowed down on my merits by a younger and a much better man ? I have done with pulling now, and I shall never enter a wager-boat for a public match again." H©added that complaints had reached his oars to the otlecb that ho had been recently sculling "too high," and that, consequently, ho altered his method and rowed lower. He otters no complaint whatever with regard to his boat or to his trainers ; but he straightforwardly avows himself a somewhat eusily beaten man. Ho is not prepared, or, at all events, is nob inclined, to otter any opinion with respect to tho probabilities of the forthcoming match botweon Kemp and Hanlan. Kemp, though nob boastful of his victory, is none the less prepared to admit thab he paddled in the victor with *' a considerable bit left up both sleeves." In other words, he falls in with the popular verdict that said good bye to his erstwhile>redoubtable antagonist with considerable easo. His views with regard to the race may be summed up in a sentence, viz., *' He knew that he had him almo3t after the blades touched water, and although Clifford pub on a few good spurts, tho rece was over from the first few hundred yards." From Uhr's Point he had everything his own way, and he was at no time called upon to fully stretch himself. Hanlan, his next competitor for the world's championship, followed the race in a steamer, and thus tersely sums the event up :—" It was a race ; but tohat, I suppose, is all that can be said about it. From the jump Clifford was a beaten man. He was nowhere. Kemp was too good for him, though I don't know what the other puller may have been. On Saturday ho didn't seem to pull half. He was a gone man from the start, and anyone could see it clearly. He evidently meant well; but he had no style, and he wasted all his strength. Tho odd& ought to have beea. a million to nothing after they had gone a few hundred yards." With respect to his ideasinconnection with his forthcoming match with Kemp, Hanlan does not care to assert much. Ho is none the less fully satisfied wi'h his own chances ; But admits that Saturday's victor is a " tough one," and also that should ho (Hanlan) be in any way "off colour" on the clay of their contest, but very few yards will bo placed to the score of the winner— whoever he may turn out bo be.

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