SCULLING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 77, 17 August 1912, Page 7

SCULLING.

THE AMATEUR CHAMPION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, August 15. • Kinnoar. the champion amateur sculler, will not, owing to business, bo able to accept the invitation to visit Australia. THE CHAMPIONSHIP. OPINIONS OF EXPERTS. EX-CHAMPION OEOROK TOWNS' VIEWS. When Ocorgc Towns was asked his opinion of Arnst's defeat lie simply laughed outright and said, '•Well. I can't understand it. The only reason I can attribute his defeat to is that Arnst was not well. But it's no use making any excuse; the other fellow won, and won on his merits. Good luck to him! But I'm sorry that Dick lost. It's really his own fault, yon know: he should 'have kept closer to his work. 1 reckoned all along that he would need to be' well, and I reckon that now. Barry is a good man, but I think, good as Barrv is, Arnst was oil' color. I would never believe that if Dick were well that Barry j could win. He couldn't beat Dick witii Dick rowing as I have seen Mm row. Dick had done no rowing for nine months before, and no doubt lie thought he was well when, in fact, he was- not." Reminded that both Albany and Fogwell led P.arry by a greater distance than Arnst did, Towns remarked that he thought tliat Harry had changed bis tactics and raced Arnst from the very first dip of the sculls, especially as he knew Dick had been ill. "I don't think he gave him a chance to get a blow, and J think he was wise. I suppose Dick will want another race, but he will have to go to work on different lines. If he does. I think Dick could win. Really you know. Dick was only thoroughly At in one of his races' —that is, in his first race With Webb." PETER KEMP'S REMARKS. To the short question. "What do you think of it. Peter?" the ex-ehainpion unbosomed himself:— "I'm not at all surprised. I think that Dick is going oil'. Judging after his race with Harry Pearce. I thought then that the first good man that met him would beat him. Dick will never row again like he used to. Barry's a great sticker, and he'll be a hard man to beat, 1 don't know of anybody in sight. Felton wouldn't beat him, nor do 1 think Harry Pearce would. Dick himself may have a ! chance of beating him again, but three : months is not long enough for a man like Arnst to get fit. Tt, however, will do the sport good. We'll have to dig up another champion." OPINION OF AUSTRALIA'S CHAMPION. Harry Pearce, interviewed after the race, said without hesitation: ."I don't know what to make of it. There must have been something wrong for Dick to have slopped SOU yards from the finish. 1 don't think a very great deal of Barry, and think that Arnst could not have been well. No man if well would stop. In condition. I have no doubt that Arnst could beat Barry. I think I could beat him myself. Besides, I don't reckon Arnst is the same man as when he rowed me. Look at the mile we did on the Parramatta River. Barry is not reckoned fast."