#rowing champion

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"Canada's Bid for the World's Sculling Championship," Ottawa Citizen. October 5, 1912. Page 1. --- FIRST MEETING OF BARRY AND DURNAN IN LONDON. ---- The picture, which reached Ottawa yesterday, shows the meeting of the two champions to arrange date of race, etc. Those in the photograph, reading from left to right, are "Bossy" Phelps, Durnan's trainer; Dan Cordery, training with Barry: G. Barry, world's champion; E. Durnan of Toronto, champion of America, and Lou Scholes of Toronto, Durnan's manager and one-time holder of the Diamond sculls.

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"CANADIAN CHAMPION SHOWS SPLENDID FORM IN TRIAL," Ottawa Journal. October 5, 1912. Page 1. --- DURNAN, the Canadian rowing champion, snapped at Putney, England, where he is training for a world's championship race with Ernest Barry on October 14.

Canadian Press Cable. London, Eng., Oct. 5.-Durnan yesterday did a trial spin, 36 in the first minute and rarely falling below 30.