KEMP V. SEARLE. Auckland, October 27.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 312, 31 October 1888, Page 5

KEMP Y. SEARLE. Auckland, October 27.

Th k great race between these two scullers for the championship of tho world comes o(T on the Paramatta Hiver this afternoon. From present indications the race will cause the greatest interest taken in a boat iac c since the second Beach - Han Inn event. E\eryonc is talking ot the great race, and public opinion is very evenly divided. Now, the Clarence River man's reputation kas been made in a a lew months by his defeat of Wait, Stansbury and Neilson. Besides this ho has done nobbing ot note. YYulf he dofeated very easily, but Stansbuty rowed him a determined race, and the time all down the liver is the iecord for the champion course, the race talcing 19 minutes 53 £ seconds. £Jeilson was outpaced irom the first hundred yards, and could not extend Soailo alter half-a-mile. So far we cannot say how good the Clarence Rivei hculler it, for he has been improving fast, and is reported to have rowed some remarkably fait tualb Shortly after the Kemp-Han-lan race started Searle came down the liver, and it is rumoured that he was about 10 seconds faster to the mile point than Kemp. It must be admitted that the champion i& ;i moie finished sculler than Searle, but it may be that the latter can give away a little in science foi the ditfeience in their :\get*, which le 13 yeai>. Kemp has been i owing splendidly dm ing tiie past yeai, and has pio\od himself a really good man in eveiy lespect. He it. fast, poweitul, and ha? wondeiful powers of endurance. He is compactly built, and has a well developed, muscular body. The man that can beat Peter Kemp is piobably the best man in the woild. Kumoura have been going the round of the Australian press in regard to Searle that, if reliable — and there seems to be no leason to doubt them — he must truly be the most wonderful rower we have ever seen. Kemp has> shown us something bettei than his challenger lias, but it may be that Searle has not yet been fully extended. To show w hat a really good man Searle is we may recount the last race he rowed on the oth inst. : —The race was between Seaile and Hughes, and took place at Newcastle, X.S. W. Hugheb leceived lOsec start, but was never in the iace after the first quarter of a mile. Here Seaile met with a mishap, the framewoik of the seat of his boat breaking oil. This caused him to stop. He soon got to work, however, and overtook Hughes, and passed him. holding him easily all the way from the half mile. At a distance of nearly a quarter of a mile the race was a gieat procession, Hughes being palpably overmatched in eveiy lespect. The time was 21min 16sec. tseaile lowed undei gtedt difficulties, his boat being lull of water all the time, and frequently washing up his back. He pro\ed himself a scullei of oreat power and lemaikable coolne^ under the ciicu instances.