AQUATICS.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 330, 2 January 1889, Page 6

AQUATICS.

Thc"Xew York Clipper 'of October 6 says: — "A cablegram, signed by Edward Haulan, \wii ipeeived from Sydney, Australia, btaliner thcit John Teenier had been matched with Peter Kemp, champion sculler of the world. The dispatch was sent direct to Teenier, and its reception and contents groatlv surprised him. The information that it contained was, hone's or. most acceptable, as he had almost concluded arrangements to stait for the Antipodes by way of Australia. He had, however, some misgivings ot being: able to effect a match with Kemp, in which the dispatch puts an end. It will save him a lob of trouble, as he will start with the satisfaction of knowing that he willhaxea match on hand when ho arrives in the land within whose borders ho anticipates the winning of irc«h laurels. lie will return to his home in Pennsylvania shortly after his present engagement at Madison Square Ciarden *s ended, and pioposes to sail from San Fr<.i.nci«co for Sydney early in Novcniber, accompanied by Al. H-*mni, who w ill act as hi& trainer and partner in any double scull races in which he may take part while away, while bho latter will take advantage of any good cliance he may ha\ c to set on a match for himself w ith pome of the Austialiau scullers. It is also their intention to take part in the intcinational regatta for valuable prizes which it is proposed to hold in the colonies next reason. Barney Morris, of M'Kec&poit, the champion*, old backer, may al&o make the tiip to see the country and pick tip something more than expenses on his protege, whom he eonsideis invincible with the sculls." The fact that a monthly "magazine of sport, ghes a portrait of the well-known Cambridge University sculler, Mr J. C. Gaidncr, together with six pages of biography, encourages a newspaper to scntentioubly remark,' Every young man ought to be more or less of an athlete, no doubt; bub when this exaggerated importance is attached to athletics a\ c may be pardoned tor thinking with Mr Sala ' that the rising generation spends too much time in play.' It may be, however, that there are those who prefer to read about rowing men rather than bother themselves about the disgraceful science of modern politics. Moreover, Mr Sala's dictum about the ' rising generation "docs not happen <o be correct. The men of the present time are working harder because they work faster, then ever their fathers, did, and it will be so with the ' now crop ' when it begins to fruit. Play, and plenty of it, was never so much needed as now, wlion men work 1001b to the square inch compared with the old-fashioned pressure of 401b or 501b. If they don't rest and lecreato there will bo some very thin plates in the boiler, and athletics of all sorts, either as a spectacle or a personal enjoyment, are -worth all tho encouragement that can be given to them.