Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1908-02-15

interesting article, telling, as 1t does
Of flrst-hand encounters with the
great sculler. Hanlan rowed in Ho-
nolulu In 1884 and many of the old
timers here will remember the race:
With the death of Edward Hanlan
at l o'clock this morning from pneu-
monia passed the greatest sculler
that ever sat in a boat. AS his friends
used to say, he taught the whole
world the art of sculling. His ad-
vent in the sport revolutionized the
style of rowing, inasmuch as he prov
cd that It required something more
than brute strength to get speed out
CT shell.
Hanlan was no paper champion.
He was his country's idol, and always
true to his friends and the people.
who adOred him. He always gave
mis- best and he went around the
globe seeking fresh worlds to con-
Guer. Numbers Or times during his
long and brilliant career Hanlan was
tempted with fabulous offers, but he
never fell.
Hanlan in his prime never had an
| equal as an oarsman, either among
Ills contemporaries, his predecessors,
! or his followers. In Hanlan's day
there were more first-class scullers
than at any other period in the his
| tory of rowing. II was the climax
of sculling. and not regatta in
| America, but could gather together
| from Is to 20 men, and all
of decidedly more than ordinary abil
| ity. Indeed, any one of these men
at his best could easily take care of
the champions of today. 1t was an
age of champions, and Ned Hanlan
was the king or them all. None ever
beat him, and he beat them all.
Professional boat-racing in Han
lan's time was at the height of its
popularity the world over. The news
papers gave pages of space to the
training reports of the men engaged
Travelled long journeys to the scene
of the decisive events. The crowd
that congregated on one occasion AT
one of the Toronto banks, clamoring
to have its money cabled to England
to back 1.-The boy in DIue," was so
great that the doors of the bank
were broken in, and an extra force
Of police had to be hurried down Ia
give the clerks chance to get the
volume of business Strengthened out
The Trickett Race
In this connection II. J. =. Good
the dean of Canadian sporting writ
ers, at that time sporting editor OF
the Mail tells n story that will illus
trate the interest Torontonians tool
in the doings of the great sculler. i
was In reference to the race for the
worlds championship with Edward
Irickett on the Thames that Mr.
Good speaks as follows:
"The morning of Monday, Novem
Der 10, 1880, was the day set for thu
!ace, and, as might have been expect
ed, tremendous excitement ensued II
Britain, in Australia, in the United
States, and in Canada. Never befor
had sculling match created 81
much interest, and never since ha
, enc done so. All the world was prac
tically agog, and every daily pape
III prominence on this continent eacl
morning contained cablegrams de
failing the progress made in trainin
by the contestants.
"The betting was heavy, never an
thing like it, and the writer of thi
was in the thick of IL, although h
|, never left Toronto. And thereb
hangs tale. 1t was on the Monda
night prior to the race. or on Noven
: Der s, 1880, that a cablegram reach
, ed Toronto saying that, at the fini
, deposit, set then to be made, Lev
y athan' Thompson, who was benin
J. the Australian, had offered to bet
X thousand pounds that his champio
a would win. The cablegram state
T. that the Canadian declined the bet.
B. Hundreds of dollars were subscril
u
= Whitefoot, editor OF the Londo
Sportsman. On the Saturday befol
the race Mr.. Good was overwhelme
with money. He adds:
Arrived at the bank, threw 1t OF
on the counter. But the crowd thu
had gathered in the street was
great that the bank doors had to |
closed, and then the pounding was
vigorous that the bank onicials con
manded the receiver to leave. Coz
sequently the money was placed in
great big silk handkerchief, and, e
corted by Il. s. Cox and bank of
cial, was taken over to the top sto
of the American Hotel, which tn,
stood where the Board of Ira,
}, building stands now, and there cou
ted. What the exact figure was
lost to memory, but ut any rate Il