1906-1907 Rowing Victoria State Championships

1^st Percy C Ivens, Mercantile

2^nd Roy Adam, Mercantile

This championship was conducted on 28th January 1907 with only two competitors. Despite the small field, Percy Ivens won in record time and won his sixth successive win in this championship.

Percy Ivens - Champion Sculler for the sixth time in a row

1^st Mercantile – Bow: Harold Lindgren, Str: J J Fogarty, Cox: A Wickham

2^nd South Melbourne

3^rd Banks

4^th Albert Park

5^th Hawthorn

Bairnsdale did not finish owing to an accident.

The Championship was conducted on 19th January 1907 and was won in a fine race. It was the second year in succession that Fogarty had stroked the winning crew.

The race was originally scheduled for 1st December 1906 but owing to the lamentable drowning of Mercantile member Albert Hoof in a swamping of a four oared boat on that day, it was postponed. Hoof was a most active and popular member of the rowing community and his loss cast a gloom over the rowing community. The VRA annual report the "The Committee cannot speak too highly of the excellent service rendered this Association and rowing generally by the Late Mr Hoof.. ."

Albert Hoof

1^st Mercantile 1 – Bow: Percy C Ivens, 2: William Potter, 3: Harold Lindgren, Str: Alex B Sloan, Cox: A Wickham

2^nd Albert Park

3^rd Hawthorn

4^th Mercantile 2 - Bow: Horace Stevens, 2: J Fogarty, 3: A Moore, Str: Lisle Jones, Cox: O Yandell

This Championship was conducted on 17th November 1906. The race was recorded as being an exciting one which was eventually won by Mercantile. 

1^st Albert Park – Bow: H J Green, 2: J R Corteen, 3: W C Low, 4: C H Kohn, 5: Henry J Whiting, 6: Charles Donald, 7: M G Scott, Str: James Donald, Cox: B Arnold

2^nd Banks

3^rd Mercantile - Bow: G Ferguson, 2: G Logan, 3: M C Brown, 4: J J Fogarty, 5: Arch Dobbie, 6: William Potter, 7: Harols Lidgren, Str: Lisle Jones, Cox: A Wickham

This Championship was conducted on 23rd March 1907 on the Lower Yarra and was recorded as a stubbornly fought-out race. The senior premiership rested on the outcome of this race and so was won by Albert Park.