More About Hanlan.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 102, 26 March 1884, Page 2

More About Hanlan.

[W-w Z'alrnd Herald.]

The cl.arapion sculler is a frank-look-ing manly young fellow. He is of a medium size and well built, but. there is little m his '%p.pe& ance to indicate the cxlraordinar/ strength of muscle which he possesses. He fa, very pleasant spoken and has a winning smile. I f;iucy that m Sydney he will be all the rage among the young ladies, but as he has already a wife, he is not likely L to- lose his henrtaraong tht? Tb'6aiitieS ""oT New South Wales. He has a remarkably high forehead, which is surmount -ted by a cluster of dart chesn at" cOrls; his brown eyes beam ,vyith intelligence, and his complexion is fresh *nd clear. JTherelis nothing oft lie " profession d " about bin>. .He. looks a well-t)do young Ehglfsh. gentleman. v Hanlan thus explains Jnovr lyj? c km* "to»be ari oarsman-J:-^ % VMy niothjet died^ when I was^two year.sold, and : to the cai-e ofViny' ,two eider owe 1 whatever JLh ere ik that .js, good m jme. NoE long after" mother -s deatlir, father removed to Toronto Island, a styorjt distance,.^, from the ,city, ,T*hej^ | he, I Sought and ran a smallish summer hotel. This. residence m childhood explains,my being. an oarsman: to. day, for, being cut, off -from;..: the mainland \ byquite a stretch of water, boats we c our cpnstant means of conveyance and communication. I could paddle about very handily m one before I was five years, old, and from five to fifteen I was constantly rowing sprint- races with the. island and city boys. I soon became known among the boys as the best rowei" for my ag*e id the lot. It was through their belief m me that I was induced to enter for my first pub- ; lie race m; a regatta held at Torpnto m the summer of 1872." Since ..then Hanlan has: : figured: ;in nearly all the great races whick have been rawed, and his success has;been phenomenal.

His method of training for a race is 4ijtevetsngv „y" Wheu • preparingiibr a race," he says, ,". I rise at 6.45 a.tn., and take a brisk walk of an hour before breakfast. , £he latter consists pf^mutton chops or steak,, medium cooked, with dry toast and tea without mjlk or sugar. After breakfast I sit around reading or writing, i>n4 4hen start for an hour and a half walk At 11- -I- get into my. boat aud, pujl ..for an (hpur, going seven miles, more or less, asl' may happen to fjeel. ;T|ien comes a bath and a rub down, and then a sit around till dinner at 1 . At this meal I dat roast beef or mutton, with , stale bread and very little m the way^i-'veg^t&bl'es and m the way of drinkables sitmer a glaps of Hass's ale orJof i'uilk.' :J Fi'oin 2 till i I walk at an easy gait, then -a rest till 5.60, aud^ihen- a five or six inil&row. Afte^ thisii,bath,v and tba kt-anc/ l 'This 4s 1 always a liglit 'tneial with me, consisting of pggs or a bit of broiled chicken^ with' dry toast and tea. Supper oypr I read for. a ? whjle, .and \\k\i Stroll drbuhU qufeiiy- 'itntat'OO ; chat over the day, and then to bed." j