SCULLING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 9 August 1907, Page 4

SCULLING.

A Wellington rowing man, who is now. in tlii. words of liic famous o'il Song. 11inLT .-.nuewhat "slow on the feather." I.nt who >till t.tkf< a keen in tere>t in the >pori, ciiatti'il in an inter-«-»tinp maimer [o x Wellington eurropomlent riling »oiue of the past Xew Zealand champion-. j J<> 1( . lm m . lrt-r™ the rare in Wellington harhur between Stevenson ami Hearn. Ileavn vv» champion of New Zealand, and held till- champion-hip for -evcral yenuntil he lias almost an elderly 'mui. lie ivas a Ue-t Coaster, and one of (he famous IXilly Varden crew. Stevenson, who was unite a juiin:; man, him. and <-.mie over from Australia for the rai-e. which was rowed on a l.eiii'ifuliy Clear, calm day. Stevenson won ijiiit!- :iv. \|y informant, who wis "I""' fn "» memory, -aid lie licliewl Ste.,asiMi lielil the eh unpionship until it was taken from him !>y Tom Sultan. Sullivan wn- in the old torpedo eorps in Auckland. and had lieen accustomed only to rowing in wlialehonts. He e Jme to the capital city, and joined the Wellington Rmvin<r ( lull, in which he lornied one of t'ie famous nv,vMcKay (stroke). I!i.-e (Xo. 2>. Snllivni (Xo. 31, and Rrid-on (low). Rriilso.i. who is now manager for Itri-cne and (o. here, was al-<, ; i W,v Zealand anrateur champion. MrKae wa- a fanio.is stroke, and fancying Sulliv mV -Irensth and style. lie took him into ihe lnul as his Xo. X Jlns,. „ov.-, T believe, an architect a* Masterton. This ce'ehrated crew won the championship nf Xew 7eil!ind three years in succession, and held it altogether for four vears. Of these four. Mi-Kay was the first, amateur champion. Then cimc Rriilson, and next Tom Sullivan. Sullivan h-'.it Stevenson for the championship of Xew Zealand. Then, says my informant, iic went lTotne and won the championship of England, but he was defeited on 111- 1 Thames for the championship of the world. Uearno is now working in a timber factory in Wellington.