Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-27

You must remember that O'Connor went ont
| to Australia on the quiet and without making
any previous arrangement with the Australian
orsmen. This in one sense is to be admired
| but IL he intended to make an economic trip it
| was risky thing to do, and events show he
has been unlucky. think you will find that
| for most of the races for the championship of
| the world, the arrangements have been settled
before the competitor left his own country.
Similar events as those you mention are of
| frequent occurrence in Sydney and you surely
| cannot expect the men TO cry off these matches
| because a stranger comes in and says, II am
| OConnor. and come to row for the champion
| with the others and accept the match offered
| him with Stans5ury. You say you have no
doubt that fragrant injustice is being done to
O'Connor would like to know what grounds
you have for making such remark.
Is because Matterson is rowing for the cham
pionship which seems to trouble you so much or
| among the men to find representative for the
| Colony7 Let me tell You that these events were
| arranged before they knew that O'Connor was
oarsman has a right to come forward and row
when the championship is open; and first come
| first served.
If you will only pay close attention to the
dinerent events to come off IN Australia in the
next six months, L feel sure both you and
O'Connor will be ready to withdraw the above
remark, and hope that when you have been
satisfied you will publish the same in your
paper. You refer to the treatment of our scul-
ers when away from home: the same applies to
the men that have visited Australia. perhaps
the only unpleasantness that has been shown
to our men was from a countryman of O'Con-
nor's. Do you remember how Hanlan treated
Trickett after he had defeated him on the
the details. but remember what stinger it was
to the Australians at the time. Yours, etc.,
AN AUSTRALIAN.
AFew Words In Reply.
Not many words are needed in reply to
our friend, who, by the way. forwards me
his correct name and address. If he has any
knowledge about rowing it is pity that his
patriotic ardor obscures it and prompts him
to be almost offensive. am ALWAYS ready
to publish anything in reply to what may
have said if that reply is not too long and if
1t is not abusive to anybody. Our Au-
stralian friend makes a mistake when he
intimates that spoke disparagingly of the
Australian sporting people. l did not. and
had he read carefully what I did write he
would have seen that I referred to the Au-
strallan rowers only, and even a limited
number OF them.
stated that their treatment of O'Conuor
wasn't fair. They did know that O'Coupor
was going to Australia long before he went. |
and races for the championship" have been |
arranged since he went there. How about |
Mclean and Matterson and Mclean and |
Hemp? Certainly the fact of a second or |
third-rater like Matterson assuming to row
for the championship to keep O'Connor idle |
TROUBLES me-" McLean's easy defeat of
Matterson iustifes me, and by the way San
Australian" forwards me evidently his
aquatic authority, who in cold type pre-
dlcted that Matterson would lead Mclean
from start to finish. Our friends say that
any sculler has a right to row for
the championship title when it is in
abeyance. OF course he has; just as much
as museum fat man has to try and beat the
limited express from Pittsburg to Chicago.
Our friend ought to have said when he was
writing his letter that O'Connor and Stans-
bury were matched, and that race. by the
way, is the only one I recognized as being
Tor the championship. Admirers of aouatics
like An Australian" ought to know better
than to say that most of the races for the in
ternational championship were arranged be-
fore the visiting sculler left his home. How
about Trickett Hanlan, Laycock, Everson
and others? Both Trickett and Hanlan Sc
cured matches almost as soon as thev landed. |
and matches they never thought of until
they did land. all these men left their
homes to row race, and they secured their
races right away without any third-raters
'rylng to keep them out. Only one word
more. L am aware that there are many
.hlngs, even in my own business, that I
lon know, but before either IAN Austria !
ian" or anybody else begins to enlighten I
lope they will at least devote little time to
he study of the subject at issue. 1 think !
ne ridiculous show made by Matterson on