Year: 1879




wobbling boat. and had to look constantly ahead
to avoid the floating stuff Still he admits not only
barring accident and interference the race was his
but it was plain--though he was too modest to say
long before race day that the Canadian could win
he liked


was 30 out of sorts and Ward him off to the
North, the latter says he would have thrown up the
sponge and forfeited the race rather than let his
man row in the shape he then was But happily he
was in such trouble when the time arrived.
Matters running on very smoothly. A good
stirred herself to help them ali she knew. Thev
mad sensiby secured a little boathouse to them
selves. They let no Englshman into their confidence
he q most faithful soul. His name was
Wright and. true to his name. he never betrayed
Hanian to see the change that had come over Elliott
whom he saw the result OF the Hawdon race His
tokened all over that new revolution had stirred
his, till then. hopeful mind But he the man. If
wrong to do what ne could to get right. and it was
this endeavor. this cropping about day after day to
get all Hanans points. to watch his STYLE to copy
his slide and dip and reach and swing. which so
amused the little man who had no copying to do.


,ELLIoTr's GOOD POINTS. o


And not unreasonably had England pinned her
faith on this same William Elliott, of Byth some
how. since Hanian thrashed him ali TO pieces Amer
leans have inclined to the idea that he was not
really hrst class man after all champion of England
though he was. Wallace Ross, when he passed
Elliott no such man = higgins had been in the





tor Higgins lattsrly. But that is not the way
Hanlan now rates him, or rather Hanan's
party; for most carefui and jndicious is Hanlan in
speaking OF his rivals. Instead an ordinary he
evidently extraordinary man. pitman by trade.
forty-six inches around the chest-as large. within
stalwsrt body. but tough and strong could be
wished. He is thoroughly strong man all over
beget and deserve confidence. But not his
looks alone not his long years vt the sculls. not
his victories oyer such good men Boyd and Black
and thasa nhA6t tha
confidence felt in him by shrewd. betting England
There was another aud . sater test-the comparison
Of this famous man with the best Of the past
the best that England has ever sent to uphold her
name and fame the sculls For years and years
marked OF from Scotswood Bridge to q stake at the
head OF the meadows--a mile and three hundred
yards-on which the best men are timed and
tested. Over and over had Renforth sculled this
distance. until the number of minutes he could do
it in known TO all the country. But In thirty
different trials Elliott averaged not merely well
Renforth, but actually niue seconds better at, as
nearly possible, the state of the water and
in ali respects under almost exactly similar cond-
tions. This is most surprising news. but it can
scarcely fail to carry conviction to all boating
10 have once scored such time would have been
enough to satisfy most but here he averaged 1t for
thirty times. Here, then this man Hanlan had been
rowing agan, instead Of being anything Indifferent.
not only the best sculler of his day id England,
but the fastest Sculler England ever produced Is it
any wonder that Hanan feels good ut thrashing
manY He said yesterday he found that in the first
il any wonder that the stewards were unwil-
ling to have the English championship rowed else
where than in England and have decided that that
noble cup which lowered up the mantelpiece in
room No. Is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel yesterday
must come back and be rowed for there whenever
any one challengesf II viii be hard enough to And
any one. 1t Is thonght, for q good while ut least,
with the temerity to ask to raco for in Eng
land after the twenty minutes work which it
the 10th OF last month.


AFTER THE RACE. 1.41 sstw


And how did the English take that terrible de-
feat? Hanlan says that while at times during the
race there was that "desth-like silence spoken of
would 20 up rousng. glorious cheer: and an Eng
ush cheer, he said, "wss something you'd remem-
bor it hearty and grand" And the sight to
for thousands OF pitmen. clad well below
the waist and . good piece above the knee.
thousand pitmen. as Ward put it, ran along the bank
in their stout. hob-nailed shoes, gloriously un-
conscious Of how appropriate A their costume would
hearty and sincere was the Welcome these men gave
to the brave foreigner who had whipped them so
own chosen sport Go whore he would after the
race. it was always the same; all wanted to shake
ferent class Of mon interested in boating from what
they had expected. they found that while moncycd
men could quickly form Hanlan club in America.
there was nothing OF the sort in England. still it
was well stoned for by the thorough devotion
OF these half-ciad Tynemen u their own William


Colonel Shaw. United States Consul at Manches-
ter. was the first man to Welcome them to
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last to bid them God speed as they sailed
for home. prefacing the parting with . generous
banquet. White silk handkerchiefs yard square.
nearly with fat and lusty beaver In each
and British and Canadian coats Of near the
monogram 4. H. in the centre. were sold after the
Hawdon race. and more gorgeous banners after the
Elliott race. So some hundred and htty guineas
suddenly rattied In Hsnlan's pockets


3fen t4 4fl THE CHAMPION CUP


But he won more than guineas. and more than
golden opinions. too. For the Championship Cup
given by the London SporfsRda u most beautiful
and grand affair. Three feet in height the lower six
inches being massive block Of polished ebony in
laid with silver the great cup is surmounted by Old
Neptune with his famous trident The broad, full
bowl OF highly wrought silver is graced on either
side by youth in boating costumes holding his
sweep erect and looking out to On broad
shield in the centre is inscribed the following
legsnd:- l-t-ts
: This Aquatic Champion. Cup


was presented by the proprietors of the
'SPORTSMAN,"
of -
LONDON
$for tho encouragement OF professional sculling$
N...u in England.
September l6 1875.





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