COMPETITIVE rowing in Scotland should get under way on Saturday, when

Glasgow Rowing Club hope to host the Prontaprint (Paisley) Fours Head of

the River race on the Clyde at Glasgow Green.

This event was postponed at the end of last year because conditions

were unsafe then and, in the light of the unrowable conditions on the

Clyde over the last couple of weeks, the organisers will decide as early

as tomorrow whether Saturday's event will go ahead.

While the entry for Saturday is down on the record of more than 100

crews achieved for November's cancellation, there will still be many

disappointed clubs if the event has to be put off.

Regardless of weather, Scottish rowing's International Committee has

been able to carry on with its activities, having started at the weekend

with two meetings for Scottish international candidates based in the

London area.

''Please don't call us Anglos,'' was the plea from Tim Lees during the

Putney meeting at which half a dozen exiles affirmed their availability

for Scottish lightweight squads for the next two years.

Later, during British heavyweight squad trials at Henley, more exiled

Scottish internationalists added their names to the availability list,

including world championship medallist Fiona Freckleton, Olympian Dot

Blackie, Oxford Boat Race stroke Ian Gardiner, Diamond sculls holder

Rorie Henderson, and home international sculling champion Cal Maclennan.

The International Committee's work continues tonight at Strathclyde

Park and tomorrow at Perth, when two meetings for home-based aspirants

are being held.