A Japanese ship coming upriver appeared to be in the path of the Shanghai crew, but the Shanghai cox, Gerry Neal, had the situation well in hand and with but slight deviation from his course, gave his crew their best opportunity to bring off the prize of the day, but here again, as in the case of the Shanghai Gars-men were unable to bring off that superhuman effort which characterised the final spurts of the Tientsin crews, and Tientsin was again able to bring off a narrow victory to the plaudits of their large crowd of supporters.
Shanghai being unable to provide a sculler, Kouleff the Tientsin representative had an easy victory from Hridilka the Harbin sculler, thereby completing Tientsin's straight victory in all events.
To decide second place in the fours, in view of the shortage of boats which had previously necessitated the drawing of a bye in this event, Shanghai and Harbin rowed off again, and the local most of their training—the pairs getting used to the "side seaters" and the fours to "sitting up" the light boats which certainly required a considerable amount of good rowing to keep in balance. In the eights, Shanghai was more at home as these were the old boats which the Shanghai Rowing Club presented to the Tientsin Rowing Club four years ago.
Harbin had dropped completely out of the picture, and the issue again law between Tientsin and Shanghai. crew won handsomely without effort from Harbin, A. dinner took place at the Tientsin
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