AQUATICS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1991, 12 July 1880, Page 3

AQUATICS.

COURTNEY Y. HANLAN. [“ Turf, Field, and Farm.”] THB PINAL PIZZLH. The great farce is over at last, and the Canadian champion has for the second time rowed five miles for the 6000dol. puree. This time he will get it, and the great (?) boat race will no longer usurp, the place of more important matter in this as well as other newspapers. It is estimated that between sixty and seventy thousand people lined the shores of the Potomac at VV ashington on Wednesday afternoon last to witness what was supposed would be a grand struggle between two skilful and superior oarsmen. They were siidly disappointed. It turned out to be as supreme a farce as was ever played on the stage of a theatre. Courtney’s friends claimed that he was a sick man, unfit to row, but the public had been fooled too often with the same excuses, and could not be induced for the third time to swallow illness for cowardice. As the race was a sham we shall refrain from devoting any space to a detailed description, Hanlan and Courtney started, were given the word at 6.10 p.rn., the former catching the water first, taking the load, which he held to the end. He rowed about 30 strokes to the minute during the entire race, while Oourney, who evidently did not start with the intention of contesting, did not average over 28. Hanlan rowed the mile and a half in 9 min. 55seo, Courtney doing the same distance in lOmin. 455e0.; hero he wheeled his boat around and rowed deliberately back toward the Potomac boat-house. Hanlan continued on, rowing the 2J miles and turning the stake-boat in 17min. 54sec. Hanlan’s three-mile time was 22min. 33sec., four-mile 29min. 465e0., and for the five miles 38min. 46 2 Ssec. Riley, who had started previous to the beginning of the race, rowed over the course, retaining a good lead over the champion, who apparently made no effort to overtake him, considering him an outsider, as he really was ; showing bad taste in starting at all. Thus ends the fiasco of over two years’ standing. It is to bo hoped that Courtney will now retire to private life and never permit his friends to drag him into a contest unless he is positive he has been furnished with a man’s heart and will not show the white feather.