BEACH RETIRES FROM SCULLING.
WHAT HE HAS MADE. The London Sportsman of October 16th has the following :—“ Mr Deeble authorises the editor to state that William Beach has decided finally to retire to private life. The champion has beaten all the prominent scullers of his day, and therefoie considers he is entitled to rest on his laurels. His private affairs now claim a large pinion of his attention.” A cablegram represents William Beach ns saying during an amicable meeting with Edward Hanlan, at the Cambridge Music Hall, London, that he had made £IO,OOO daring his brief career as a sculler, and he proposed on his return to Australia to devote himself to his farm, holding himself, however, in readiness to accommodate anyone who might undertake to wrest the championship from him, on the Paramatta. He made no formal response to Hanlan’s challenge, J. A. Gaudanr, America's champion sculler, on his return to New York on October 3, from London, spoke very highly of Beach, personally and as an oarsman. At the conclusion of the race between the two for the championship of the world, Beach shook Gaudanr by the hand and said, “You are the best man I ever met in my life.”
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Kumara Times, Issue 3137, 23 November 1886, Page 3
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