ARNST WINS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 31, 31 July 1911, Page 5

ARNST WINS

HEATS PEARCE BY SEVERAL LENGTHS. A GRUELLING RACE. PEA'RCE WEEPS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright. Received 30, 5.5 p.m. Sydney, July 29. Pearcc's essay sto wrest the. sculliroz championship of the world- from Dick Arn&t resulted in one of the most gruelling races on record. The weather conditions "were perfect. There was a. bright sun, smooth water, and a steady ■westerly wind right behind the scullery, with the tide in their favor. Arnst won the (,oss and chose the iniside right "of the course. The men got away well together, the champion rowing thirty-four strokes to the minute, and Pearce thirty-seven. There was no advantage on either side during the first 200 yards. When Arnst was pulling close, Pearce was forced to stop and lose a stroke. This gave the challenger the advantage of a length, which he held to Uhr*s Point—a mile. The defender's mighty strokes them began to tell. He started gradually to overhaul Pearce, but managed the cor-, ner badly. However, he got into Pearce's waiter and was within an ace of colliding with him. { Arnst had to stop rowing for a couple of strokes to allow Pearce to draw ahead. Pearce kept on, thus showing sportimamship. as had he stopped Arnst must have collided and lost on a foul. After negotiating the Point. Dick bent his great back and settled down to a steady pull of about twenty-eight to the minute, overhauling his opponent at the mile peg, Pearce rowing a slightly quicker stroke, but not. with the same power. Once in front, Arnst headed for home and rowed like a machine, gaining steadily until at Cnbarita he led by six lengths. Pearce, undaunted, pulled magnificently, and tried repeated spurte, but the New Zealander was too powerful, and kept driving on in a , heart-breakfng fashion. Rounding Putney, a few hundred yards from home! Arnst was leading by a good ten lengths, and dropped to twenty-two strokes a minute. Here Pearce looked round and waver? ed. but put in a last tremendous, though futile, effort. Without doubt Arnst was never more fully extended than when he passed the poet a winner by four lengths. He immediately stopped rowing and dipped his hands one alter the other into the water. Tt had been a fearful strain —too much for the champion's condition, J causing him to vomit. Pearce, in the last struggle, felt the agonising torture of defeat, and when the pistol was fired he nlaced his hands before his face and fobbed. The' time wis lflmin 4(lsec, a record for the world's ehampionsliip. The first imile was rowed in smdn .lOsec. The attendance was easily a record, and was probably nearly" a hundred thousand. The river was black with small craft. Pearee admits tlmt Arnst. is too good for him. He will not challenge liim again. Arnst declares, thnt it was the hardest race of his life. Beach declares that there i.s nobody in sight to beat Arnst. The takings were £BOO.