THE BOAT RACE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 113, 20 August 1910, Page 5

THE BOAT RACE

AIR,NOT WIKS PROM START TO FXNILSH. CONDITIONS. PERFECT. By Cable.—Press Association. —Copyright Livingstone, August 18. ■The meeting of Arnst and Barry has been looked forward to with interest ever since i)*./ uecided to row for a £IOOO purs*., put up by the Chartered Company. Barry is probably the most scientific oarsman "in the world to-day, and Arnst is looked upon as the most powerful. The water conditions were simply perfect, and tihe water was good. The course is one of the prettiest and best in the world, a little on the shallow Bide at the top end possibly. The palm trees down to the water's edge, reflecting beautifully, together with tne incessant roaring of the famous Victoria Falls, it bout a mile down stream, put a finish on a scene that must be seen to be appreciated. AN UNUSUAL SPECTACLE. The Acting,-Administrator, Colonel Garden, and suite were present. The attendance was large, quite a record for the river. The black population, in all their imaginable finery, turned out en masse. The hippos were also on their very best behaviour, being quite content to gaze .upon the scene of action from leafy grandstand seats, thanks to the teachings of Dreyer, who has been busy these two months teaching them, per medium of his rifle, to keep their place.

THE START. Punctually at 2.35 the Administrator's launch, started with the referee, iMr. Spencer Gollan, press representatives and supporters. Both men left the Zambesi Boating Club's landing for the starting post amidst cheers from the spectators. Arriving there, no time was lost in acquainting the scullers with the conditions governing the race, and tossing, for places, Dr. Tbacker representing Arnst, and Mt. Nickalls acting for Barry. The former chose the north, bank, ■which gives the advantage of deep water right along t'he' course. The condition of the two men was much discussed by those aboard the launch. The champion, as brown as a berry, looked fit to row for a kingdom. Barry, with his white skin, looked anxious but very fit. The men's respective weights were: Arnst 13st 61b, Barry list 81b. Both men wore a very anxious expression, Barry especially. A BiEAUTIFUL START. (Nto time was lost by both men in effecting a beautiful start. Arnst immediately struck at 32 to the minute, and forged) clean ahead, being practically a length to the good in the first half mile. Barry struck, at 33, but could not hold the champion, who at the mile was leading by a clear lengith. From there (home, Barry rowed with forlorn 'hope, and finally gave up about two hundred yards from the finishing post. COMPETITORS INTERVIEWED.

Barry, interviewed, said he was quite satisfied that the better man won. He had found Arnst a very stiff proposition, and was in trouble after half a mile. The climate here did not agree with fcim. ,i. .. ' : i I s." •• !*• • Arnst says it was his hardest win, but •Dick always says that. PUTNEY'S THE PLACE. WHY BARIRY LOST. INVITATION TO AMTST. Received August 19, £K3O p.m. London, August 19. Guy Nickalla cables that Barry's fine "watermanship was not equivalent to Amst's muscle and sinew. If the race had) been rowed at Putney, Barry would j have won. Arnst confessed that it was the most "gruelling" race of his'life. English newspapers are congratulatory in their comments on the race. The Telegraph says that Arnst is possibly the best sculler of modern times ; otherwise he would not have beaten Barry so readily. Louis Scholes has invited Arnst to go Home via Canada to row Eddy Durnan in Toronto Bay. THE CHAMPION—HICHAM) ARNST. Arnst' record in recent times is more than a twice-told tale. When once he struck rowing form, after forsaking the cycling track for the water, he had demolished all opposition for tlhe sculling •upremacy. Early in I'MB he looked in vain in Australia for men to measure blades with him. 'He was looking in the Commonwealth and the Dominion for sculling business, and eventually came the encounter with Webb, on the Wanganui river, in 'December, 1908. Arnst easily won in 1 Sniin s"2see, and in June of last year he again proved that he was in a class above Webb, by vanquishing the challenger in lSmin 15 sec (record time for the 3%-mile championship course). In the handicaps at Wanganui last January Arnst easily triumphed. Xn the final heat ho had Webb and Hagney to beat, and he comfortably finished' ahead of them. On April 4 last he defeated George Whelch, at Akaroa. The water was lumpy, and no official time was taken, but non-official watches registered 91<min 50 3-ssec. 'ERNEST BARiRY. In a recent contribution to an English journal Barry says of himself: "So far as age and height are concerned, Arnst andi I are well matched. Arnst stands 6ft., while I touch Gft. also; in years I have the advantage of him by twenty imonths —if it can be called an advantage. But in weight my rival (has a decided superiority, for he scales 13st to my list 101b. In the earlies stages of my training I shall lose some of this, Ibiut in the latter I shall be sure to regull it all.

"Here I may say that lam extremely! fortunate in that I have never suffered from the sportsman's bugbear—"nerves." Wihien I went out to scull against Towns it seemed no more important to me than an ordinary pleasure spin at evening .before sundown, with nobody watching. (Possibly that is why I won, and beat the Putney-Mortlake record by 31 3-5 sec. I have always hadi the ambition to be champion sculler of the world, ever since the day I started, as a bov, my apprenticeship as an oar and siull maker to Mr. Norris, of Putney. As I stood at the bench over my work I used to look out at the iscullers, and wish that I could be like them. And I didn't stop at wis-h----ing. I took up scullimg <>e though my very life depended on it, and by the time I was sixteen had entered for my first race—a .handicap at Wandsworth, in which I was accorded .thirty-two seconds r ? i Se ou k a 'conviction that I ishouidi win, and returned home with a determination to do better next time." — i 'THE RECORD. j Races for the title of the World's Champion since 1876 have resulted as under:— 1876 E. Trickett beat J. H. .Sadler, Thames, 25.23. liß77—'E. Trickett beat M. Rush, Parramatta, '23.27'/a----1879—E. Trickett beat E. Laycock, Parramatta, 23.39. 18S0—E. Hanlon beat E. Trickett, Thames, 26.12. 1881— E. Hanlan beat E. Laycock, Thames, 25.40. 1882 —tE. 'Hanlon beat R. W. Boyd, Tyne, 21.25. 1882—>E. Hanlan beat E. Trickett,! Thames, 28.0. 1884— E. Hanlan beat E. Laycock,' Nepean, 22.45. ' I 1884— W. Beach beat E. Hanlan, Par-' ramatta, 20.28V 2 . 1885— W. Beach beat T. Clifford, Parramatta, 26.0. 1885— W. Beach beat E. Hanlon, Parramatta., 22.51. ISBS—W. Beach beat : N. Matterson, Parramatta, 24.111%. 1886— W. Beach beat J. A. Gaudaur, Thames, 22.29. . 188(3—W. Beach beat W. Ross, Thames, 23.5. 1887—' W. Beach .beat E. Hanlan, Nepean, 19.55. 1888—P. Kemp beat T. Clifford, Parramatta, 23.47. 1888—P. Kemp beat E. Hanlan, Parramatta, 23.36. 1 1888—P. Kemp beat E. Hanlan, Parramatta, 21.25. 1888— H. E. .Searle beat P. Kemp, Parramatta, 22.44%. 1-SiH)—H. E. iSearle beat W. J. O'Connor. Thames, 22.42. 1890 —'P. Kemp beat X. Matterson, Parramatta, 2 l-.l 3%. 1890 —P. Kemp beat J. McLean, Parramatta, 21t.45V». 1891— J. McLean beat P. Kemp, Parramatta, 22.13. 1891. —J. .Stanbury beat J. McLean, Parramatta, "22.1>5 1 ,i. *lB91 —J. Stanbury beat J. McLean, Parramatta, 18.27. *lB92—J. Stanbury beat T. Sullivan, Parramatta, 18.27. 1896 —J. Stanbury beat C. R. Hard- ; ing, Thames, 21.51. , I>B96 —J. A. Gaudaur beat J. Stanbury, Thames, 23.1'. 190! —G. A. Towns beat J. A. Gaudaur, Rat Portage, 20.30. 1904 G. Towxs beat R. Tressider, Parramatta, 21'.48 4-5. 1905 —J. Stanbury beat G. Towns, Parramatta, 19.50. 1906 G. Towns beat J. Stanbury, Parramatta, 19.53 1-5. 1907 —G. Towns beat E. Durnan, Par- , ramatta, 22.27. • 1007— W. Webb beat C. Towns, ■ Par- • ramatta, 20.45. 1908— W. Webb beat R. Tressider, Wanganui, 20.28. , 1908— R. Arnst beat W. Webb, Wanganui, 19.52. 1909 —R. Arnst beat W. Webb, Wanganui, 18.15.' ' 'l'OliO—R. Arnst beat G. Whelch, Akaroa, 21.50. *These races were about 'half a mile short of the full course. The Thames course is 4 miles 400 yards; Parramatta, 3 miles 330 yards; Tyne, 3 miles 713 yards; Nepean, about 3y 4 inilea.