ROWING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 148, 9 November 1912, Page 7

ROWING.

Ernest Barry, the sculling champion of the world, speaking at a dinner given in his honor, supplied his own modest version of the way he beat Arnst last July. His plan, he said, was to cling to Arnst as tightly as he could; to give a big man like him a blow was apt to prove disastrous. When they had travelled half a mile he thought the quicker he could overtake his rival the better, because by that means he could hold him the better. The race was not really hard till they reached Hammersmith, when he pulled up to the side of Arnst. There he found out- that Arnst was a racer, and was not woing to allow him to pass as some competitors in other races had done. So he dropped back again. He then made several attempts to get ahead, but Arnst "was not having it," and going up to Chiswick Eyot, said Barry, "I had some very funny feelings—anyone could have bought me for tuppence." But he knew that if he could hold Arnst to the top of the Eyot the station would.win him the race", so he nursed himself as best he could, and when he got into his own station, having the best of the water, he let go what little reserve power he had left, and it was just sufficient to win the race. Mr. Barry added that he had tried for many years to keep himself "fit," and prepared for such a great occasion as this was, and no one was more pleased than himself at his success in regaining the sculling laurels which England had lost.