Six Lengths Behind.

The rowing commenced an hour late, and "Smad" was able artificially to produce a vociferous approbation of rowing in general and A.U.C. rowing in particular, and at the same time to cultivate a genial tolerance towards the V.U.C. splashing display. We stood, with 37 other people, on an empty barrel (one of the few in Dunedin before Easter Monday), and obtained no better view of the race than anybody else. We hear that V.U.C. finished only six lengths behind the leaders, with only two boats in between. Although defeated, the V.U.C. eight rowed creditably for a crew comprised largely of novices who had had only eight rows together. The race was rowed in faster time than the inter provincial eights and the fact that our boat was only six lengths behind a crew which the Dunedin "Star" considered worthy to represent their province, is a happy augury for the future, provided their initial keenness under the stress of bad water and injuries is maintained. Congratulations to Eggers on his N.Z. blue.

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