Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-06-17
HANLAy ON OARsMEN.
The EX.ChampiOn's Opinion of Court
ney and the Other Leading Scullers.

| ney and the other Leading Scullers.
| From an Interview in the Detroit Post
"What kind ola man is Beach?" was asked OF
| Hanlan.
"He's good one, you know. Oh, yes, he's a
| good one. He's large, strong, active and pos
sesses all the nerve a man needs. But such
luck! Nobody can beat that mans luck. I'm
| going to let him rest for year and then make
him another visit. I want to see If his luck
won't change. 1t certainly can't stay by him
always. We pulled there in a flood tide. I
knew was beat when Beach won the choice of
| positions. I knew 1t, and somehow I knew
| he'd win the toss. He's very lucky. But l
was bound to row IT he beat me the length of
pull when rye agreed to- and BESIDE If ia said i'd
| mo to the crowd they had there. they'd have
killed me, you know. They would. sure: He
race than he, and hope to prove 1t some time.
But he's a rower,and you can only beat him by
What have you in View"
well, | have little arrangement with
Teemer. We have q series of races, which 1
| think won't come off until September. By the
| way, I'd like to meet him here in Detroit.
never pulled in a race in my life that didn't
| try to win. and when get alongside of Teemer
want TO be at my best. want to race him q
| good square race for big money, and I'd be glad
to race him somewhere about Detroit. That
came to the front had picked him out and
| told the boys to look out for him. They thought
me quite prophet but the fact was that he'd
come alongside of me one day when was prac-
ticlng, and I'm blowed if could shake him. /
mad good reason to know that he was Il fast one.
Besides this, want to make match against
Hosmer and Gandaur. They just won in a good
double race and tell me they can beat Lee and
myself say they can't, and there's but one
make race if we can. Our recorded time is
under theirs, and as we've been bantering about
the matter want to have it tested. That st:
johns club is ready to back Gandaur for almost
anything"
What do you think of Courtney?"
This question, put as feeler caused the oars
man eyes to snap, for it is well known that
the man whose boat was sawed, who was sand
bagsed the night before race and who went Off
10 get shaved and forgot to return, while thous-
anus OF anxious people waited to see his race
with Ross, has poor standing in the estimation
Courtney could row. 1 don't believe i he ever
saw the day that he could beat 2O:19 in race.
Then he has no nerve. Why, the man shakes
like a leaf every time he talks to me. There's
no use arranging race wi tn him in it, for he 5
unreliable because he lacks sand. You may
think you're all ready to send the boats OFF, and
pany. But that same Courtney made me pull
the hardest race ever had
"HOw was that?''
'.1t was down at Watkins Glen, in New York,
That big race l had there. We were rowing
heats. winners to go in the final race. Ross,
heat. l heard the night before that Lee and
Ross had been fixed to let Courtney win the
Was snd go to have that
Courtney and was satisfied Lee could. went
to these men and said Here, you fellows can't
got to go in and both of you beat Courtney, or
Ross and Lee $50 each. Yes. 1 did; clean
them and shew they eoad
do it. That was a terrible beat. Courtney got
away away; as though shot out OF mortar. He
right down to business and did all they could
Koss crept up but it seemed to me at a small
got abreast and stayed there for u mile in that
heat. They all rowed for blood. Finally I saw
Courtney's head go down and 1 knew he
wouldn't trouble the boys any more. They both
beat him in"
"But how did they make a hard race for
you?"
"Im coming to that. was never so tickled to
see man beat as was Courtney. Iyelled and
hurrahed and jumped. and was still giving
i6r the decisive race. got into my boat with
the wind all yelled out of me, you know. There
| was, pitted against Ross and Teemer, with
my breath gone l never rOwed such IL race.
fellows were after me from the start to the
and would let out shake III him of and 4 try te
regain my wind. Along he'd come again and
Ieemer right with him. Halfa-dozen times 1
end to this cOurse?' 1t seemed to me good ten
miles long; When we neared the finish posi-
lively couldn't see. but heard the yells. knew
[ was steering right and pulled blindIy in one
last struggle When l crossed the line Ross
Tapped my boat and Teemer Tapped Ross. The
press boat pulled alongside to congratulate me.
| heard them say. You won easy, Hanlan. You
make 1t SO closer Do you know it was ten sec
Onds before 1 could say a word, and had that
course been a rod longer would never have
won the race"
slows PlaiSted doing?"
"Well, I'm afraid Fred. is going back No
better starter ever got into a boat. He can go
like rocket for a short distance, but he don't
stay. He don't keep himself up as he ought to-
Lees quite rover, but he's lazy. Ross is q
good one and Teemer can make q har1 race
with the best Of them. want to get 'longside
OF him again for good, big money"