Sport: Rivers
Can you locate the River Brisbane? It flows east into the Pacific Ocean out of the highlands behind Brisbane, Australia. It often floods its flats, causing destruction in the low-lying suburbs of Brisbane.
What of this? Along its sluggish surface, one J. Padden, world's professional sculling champion, last week propelled himself and his slender shell fast enough to put six lengths between him and Alfred Felton, 1919 champion.
This race has never been held in the U. S. and only once in Canada. That was in 1901, on Rat Portage River. Favorite scenes since 1880 have been the Parramatta River, New South Wales (18 times); Thames River, England, (11 times); Wanganui River, New Zealand, (4 times).
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