SCULLING.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3167, 19 April 1909, Page 5

SCULLING.

ARNST v. WEBB. THE PROPOSED RACE. By Telegraph—Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH, April 17. At a meeting of R. Arnst's guarantors, last evening, it was unanimously decided that Arnst should accept Webb's challenge tojrow for the world's championship and £SOO a-side. There was some discussion as to where the race should be rowed, the people of Akaroa having offered very substantial inducements to the present champion to row the race in Akaroa, while Arnst, who, as the challenged party, has the right to fix time and place, but no right to decline to row at the time and place fixed, naturally desired to eliminate as far as possible, any chance of unfavourable weather conditions, which in the open harbour might render the result of the race more a matter of Juck than sculling ability. Eventually it was decided that an endeavour should be made to have the race rowed in Canterbury, as Arnst JJis now recognised as the Canterbury representative. Mr R. Heaton Rhodes, one of Arnst's guarantors, will proceed to Dunedin to-day to negotiate with Sir James Mills, managing director of the Union Steamship Company, with regard 1 to the transport of spectators to and from Akaroa in event of the race being decided there. The final decision as to the place at which the race will be decided will largely depend upon the result of these negotiations.

Seen by a reporter last night, R. Arnst stated that, feeling particularly fit, and anxious • that the championship should be rowed with as little delay as possible, he anticipated that the date to he fixed for the race would be towards the end of May, and he proposed to go into active training at once. His trainers would be Floyd and his brother J. Arnst, and his pacemaker Fogwell. The race would decide whether he or Webb should fulfil the engagements already entered into by him to row Durnai in Canada in August, and Barry in England for £I,OOO a-side in the following month. In conversation with a reporter last evening, J. Arnst, who has just returned from Dunedin after a successful attempt upon the Christchureh to Dunedin cycling record, stated that it was his intention in the near future to follow the example of his brother and take up the sport of sculling in preference to cycling. Meantime he intended to act as one of his brother's trainers, in order to gain some practical experience.