St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-26

notions nor try a change Of regimen
or physical we'll being.
| This is the rule observed when
| L went to England the year after I
won the championship of America
against all Corners at the Philadel-
phia Centennial in 1876. / was over
there four months before 1 rowed a
competitor, and he was not cham
pion at that-only a rising" man,
John Hawdens, of Delaval. Two
months after that, however. I met
and defeated William Elliot, the
champion of England. How I met
and afterwards defeated in success
sion Ned Trickett and E. G. .Layeoek.
both Of Australia, for the worlds
championship, is now a matter of
history. pursued exactly the same
methods of training and acclimatiza-
ton with them as I did with Haw-
dons and Elliot
The first defeat ever encountered
after l had conquered Charles E.
Courtney, Wallace Ross, Eph Morris,
Frenchy Johnson, Warren Smith and
host of others, I attribute to a di-
vergence from this rule. That was
when Beach beat me in Australia
when I had the victory all but won.
had not been in the antipodes long
enough to be acclimated, and I also
departed somewhat from my system
OF dieting, owing to the peculiar eli
matte conditions of Australia. I had
got away from Beach at the start
and had a good lead up to a distance
from the finish. The Paramatta
river. where we rowed, was filled
with craft of all kinds, and I grew
nervous as we approached the win
ming line lest I collide with one Of
them, the more SO as Beach hung on
to me with bulldog grit, and I could
not shake him. Suddenly a. huge
vessel lowered over me, and that
gave me such a shock that 1 almost
stopped then and there For the
first time in my life my nervous sys-
tenn was out of gear. I attribute
that to my departure from the rules
L nave lald down.
Anyhow Beach drew up, passed
and beat me. 1 have no excuse to
make. l was beaten fairly and
squarely, but. it nearly broke NV
heart then, the same as Beach's was
broken a couple of years later when
Stansbury beat him, and Stansbury's
IN turn when the late Henry Searle
roWed him to a StandStill at the
historic course on the Paramatta
river. And what a race of giants
those Australians are, to be sure!
Tr1ekett, Laycock, Rush, Beach.
Stansbury and Searle among the
oarsmen; Peter Jackson, Bob Fitz-
simmons, Paddy Slavin and Jim
Hall among the boxers. 1t would
seem as if our boys on this side of
the Atlantic as we'll as our English
cousins would have to look to their
laurels if they would keep aquatic
and athletic supremacy between
themselves.
L may state in conclusion that Wal
lace Ross, the gallant New Bruins
wicker, followed the same course of
action that L did when he went to
England. He first got acclimated,
then tackled an easy mark-Frank
Emmett - defeated him, and then
moved down long list of good men,
including the great Australian.
Trickett, whom I had defeated some
| time before.
The Cornell boys are not the only
fellows who erred in the matter of
acclimation. The famous Harvard
crew which went over to England
In 1868 did the same thing. So did
T the Showaecemettes in 1877, and the
American champion amateur oars
man, George w. Lee, in that same
year. These examples will be of adj
vantage to other ambitious oarsmen
who intend to tackle the British lion
in his den. All these boys have got
to do is to live and learn.
EDWARD HANLAN.