THE WEBB-STANBURY RACE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 81912, 28 December 1906, Page 2

THE WEBB-STANBURY RACE

, 'AN UNSOUNDED. LIBEL., f; <j Tluw. tlta; Wanganui Ch. ronWe ' M .Wednesday's sculling rac ,._ Tue : watching crowd loves +„,..;*„„, „ ' vigorous ending, „,-„ u"\ t ■ i , °' " .*(l is ant to wax i.! iv 1 of •- S, > icioll9 when it-i* si ,t tt if right to- ?. 'I. lioni-sc while the issue' f1,„.. "« s '« t"« balance. Bitter, ""•'.nfore, was the ; disappointment when, just as all throats had jwjiA. cleared for action, the AustrajH| Hercules was seen to "throw iflpHJ sponge" and leave the race, tlie honour—everything—to his,BHflP, ful opponent to win ns hc~aHpJ| Quick as a Hash a reckless onIHH whispered a cruel and callow VH and in a twinkling a, t' thoughtless tongues were w the same effect-a swindle ~ %£ S strain" mTho wake'ol J " l ,?!£ > ' v d H ther beard the wh* lil V C , f ■ heeded the shouts of I"™ 1 , »' u « , i ~,• l. . I , praise which£!■■ mastered tlie.se •' .'■ ' (r v ,[ till seven Z„- U ' wuo lor wc " m o l ßßl oarsmiu of " aui bocu llle T%&£ the world, lit u, been ,■ bv a com y rowc ' a t0 a ill tlvt' i" lratlv '' l -V unknown amaM to "to ' was lelt fov Mm to ioWl '■ratv ," ko I,is gnlel ' lilie a Sin- e tlle wiuner J a nd acknowHßi iself outclassed. As for his lflfl| J idges, they will assuredly little calm consideration will conflH them that their condemnation ofBH defeated man has nothing rest on than the slender groundJM their own chagrin. They know how heart-breaking had I tlie pace for the greater part of IH race. They did not know, jwhat timekeepers knew, that the srnt nH had been covered in the fast timeßß f>ni 40sec, and they did not stbpJßJ think that Stanbury had to lose ami comparatively n«rfflßj to gain by throwing away th/IJIB Even had it been possible M StflH bury to have backed Webb ' aeaflH himself to the extent of cannot Bee that it woudl have iflH cannot see. that it would ]i avo pHfIJ an igiiominous and dishonourable jH tiremeut from the arena in whichJßj has played so conspicuous and BlicdflH ful a part, and would have dnmlH| for all time his otherwise brilliantßH putatioii, We do not believe IH| stalwart ex-champion is made of, ■■H poor stuff. We prefer to r J( .|H that he was honestly beaten, ~hHB himself frankly ' acknowledr , es Bfl that his defeat signifies tl ,f ] IO JBS able conclusion of an ImnoiuWMß