Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-12
WORLDS CHAMPIONS.
Scullers Who Have Won In
ternatiOnal Matches.
"reminiscences About Cele-
brated Knights Of the Oar.
Australians and Americans Who
Have Contested in the Past.
A History of the Worlds Greatest Scull-
ing Matches fer the Past Fff-
teen Years.

England has not produced first-class
oarsman since the days of Chambers and
Sadler. In 1875 Ed Trickett, the Aus
tralian giant" wrested the worlds
championship from Sadler, since
which time England has not won a
sculling match in which the champion
ship was involved. In fact, no English
oarsman has even won an important
match since that year. Trickett was the
first Australian scu!ler to win cham
pionship, although he was not the first
to make the attempt. In 1868 R. A. w.
Green rowed Chambers, OF England, but
the antipodean was beaten. Trickett
held the worlds championship for just
four years. In an unguarded moment
he accepted an offer to 60 to England to
measure blades with E. Hanlan, the Gel
brated Canadian oarsman, who since
1878 had been sweeping everything be-
fore him on this continent. Hanlan
defeated in rapid succession Plaisted,
Morris, Courtney, Hawdon, Elliott and
Riley. I
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According to the ethics of champion
ship contests, Trickett could have made
| Hanlon go to Australia to meet him.
The champion has always the right to
name the course as he must necessa-
rily be the challenged party. Trickett
waived this right and journeyed to Eng
land to meet Hanlan over the Thames
course. The race excited widespread
interest. The Australians backed their
man in a most liberal manner. Cana
dions and Americans were for Hanlan
to man. The latter won the race and
the championship Of the world, but the
writer will never believe that Trickett
in 1880 was the man he had been in for
mer years. Ned Trickett was phenom-
email oarsman in his day, but as he had
not rowed for some time in Australia be
| fore going to England to row Hanlan, the
antipodeans were not aware of his re-
PROGRESSION and labored under the delu-
sion that he was as good a man as when
he defeated Laycock in 1875.
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| In 1881 Hanlon defeated Laycock in a
sculling match for the worlds cham
pionship. The latter hailed from Aus
tralia and had beaten and was beaten
by Trickett. Hanlon swept everything
before him for several years. Like
Trickett, he left home for other worlds
to conquer. He met the same fate. In
Australia he defeated Laycock. This
was in 1884. He next tackled Beacl,
but succumbed, the antipodean, to the
surprise of the people on this continent,
rowing him to a standstill. In 1880
Hanlon beat Clifford, rising young
Australian sculler. Beach defeated the
same man few months later. Then
Hanlon and Beach came together again
the same year and the Canadian was
again defeated by the stalwart colonial.
Hanlon returned to America leaving
the championship behind. 1t has re-
mained there ever since.
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In 1886 Beach journeyed to England
and beat in rapid succession the Amer
leans, Jake Gadaur and Wallace Ross.
Hanlan paid Australia a second visit
during 1877 and 1878. In these two
years he suffered defeat four times, twice
at the hands of Beach and twice at the
hands of Kemp. In the meantime
another man was rapidly gaining fame
as an oarsman. 1t was the late lament
ed H. Searle. In 1888 he defeated such
good men as Stansbury, Nelson and
Kemp. The former was mere youth
at the time, but even then was regarded
as prominent candidate for champion
ship honors.
In the meantime w. O'Connor OF Can
ada had come to the front in this country
by defeating the best oarsmen in
America in rapid succession. A match
was arranged between O'Connor and
Searle to come off in England in 1889.
The latter won and brought back the
championship to Australia. The world
renowned oarsman died very suddenly
the day he landed in the antipodes. His
death was accounted public calamity
and thousands attended his funeral.
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Beach and Searle never met. The
former retired about the time Searle
came to the front. There was a big
hustle for the championship made
vacant by the death of Searle. Candi-
dates sprang up on all sides. Australia
had Kemp, Mclean, Stansbury and
Matterson anxious to wear the crown,
while O'Connor thought he could land
the championship with Searle out of the
way. The year 1890 was the most pro-
life one on record for rowing matches.
On March 25, J. Mclean beat Master
son. On May 15, P. Kemp beat Mclean.
June 30th, J. Stansbury and O'Connor
rowed an international match. The
former won, on November of the same
year Mclean beat Stansbury. Dec.
18th, Mclean beat Kemp.
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The above record brings one down to
the latest match for the worlds cham
pionship, recently chronicledl in the
HERALD. Stansbury won the match,
and is now the champion OF the world.
He is twenty-three years old and first
saw the light of day in Australia. The
time he was beaten by Mclean did not
involve the championship, but he has
since defeated his old rival twice.
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1t will therefore be observed that the
following scullers have won champion
ship matches since 1876: Trickett (Aus-
tralia), E. Hanlan (Canada), w. Beach
(Australia), H. E. Searle (Australia)
and j. Stansbury (Australia.)
Professional sculling is at low ebh in
America. Such men as Teener have