ROWING.
PACE->AtA ; KING FOR ARNST—FORBIDDEN, TO AMATEURS. (Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Feb. 4, At the meeting of the committee of tlie Auckland Rowing Association tonight a- letter was read .from the secretary of a local club asking for permission for a crew to pace R. Arnst, the world’s champion sculler, m an exliibition scull on the harbor on Saturday. ArnSfc bad approached the club officials, and they wrote to wet an expression of opinion from the Association on the point as to whether an -amateur crew could assist in a professional! exliibition. A lengthy discussion, took place, _ at the conclusion of Which the following motion was- carried—“ That in the opinion, of the- Auckland Rowing Association such 'an exhibition is contrary to the spirit of-the clause defining amateurs accor ding to- the ( New Zealand. Amateur Rowing Association rules.- The Association therefore cannot, approve of any club affiliated with at assisting in ia professional exhibition
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19090205.2.12.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2418, 5 February 1909, Page 3
Word count
Tapeke kupu
153ROWING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2418, 5 February 1909, Page 3
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in