THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

Inangahua Times, Volume X, Issue 1535, 15 April 1885, Page 2

THE SCULLING CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE WORLD.

♦— What Beach and Hanla had to say AFT) R THE RaCE. Mr Beach said this was th« second time he had reached the winning-pest some lengths ahead of the great sculler Hanlcn in a champion race. He was grateful to them for their congratulations upon his success in keeping the rowing championship of the world in sunny Australia. No man would wrest it from him except on the course where he had the good luck to win it from their distinguished visitor Edward Hanlan, whose name and fame would alwayslive in the memory of the thousands of friends he had wen to his side since the day of his landing on our shores. He has beaten the best scullers that are at present known. 4> He never pulled a man so strong as I am. I have pulled all the best men in Australia, and I never rowed a harder race than I rowed to-day. The public, 1 ' said Beach, " need scarcely question whether we both rowed our b«st. It was a race in which both men rowed to win. Hanlan worked to sustain a big record. I pulled for reputation, and ' heart and muscle were in it, and, as I ' have said before, I believe the best man gained the day." The champion added with a laugh; referring to his possible speculations en the result of ; the race: "1 U'ft betting to my supporters, but I did win .£10." Mr Hanlan was pretty brief, feeling his defeat veey keenly. " Well, boys," said this plucky Canadian " I have been beaten by a man better than myself, which I must acknowledge. I am not one who boasts, but I speak my full confidential opinion that I have been beaten by a man such as the world has never seen outside Austi alia. 1 am sorry I am beaten, and lam pleased to see a better man than myself. I can say fraukly, and will bet all the money I have in th« world and it is anly £2 or £3 that I will row any sculler bar' Beach ; but Beach I can't beat. If as you say, I have raised the character of rowing in Australia, and have myself combined the instincts of a gentleman with the unexampled skill of a professional athlete, then more than ever ami grateful for coming here. I have at anyrate been the inno cent means of making Btnch a rich man, and this reminds me of something. You know that much has been made of my declaration when I arrived, that I had come to Australia for the purpose of making money. Well, 1,-;jiav« been disapointed. I brought very little money with me into the country; and I shall not take much away."