Beach and Ranian.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 108, 11 April 1885, Page 2

Beach and Ranian.

" Beach/ says . the Melbourne Age reporter, " is not a man likely to be oarried away by success. After spending the evening m conviviality with his more intimate acquaintances, he was up like a lark on Sunday morning, and half-past six o'clock saw him at the City Counott salt water baths. ' Bravo I Beach ' went the round of a couple of hundred early morning bathers, as the champion took a header from the spring-board, evidently desirous of diyesting himself of the cobwebs of victory and its unavoidable evils. l How do you feel ?' inquired a bystander as he emerged from the shower. ' I feel as if my head would like to open at the top,' was the terse reply. ' One championship a year ia quite enough for me.* " According to the Sydney Morning Herald, Hanlan said, addressing a crowd of bystanders, " I have been beaten, boys, and beaten fairly. I will row any man m the world bar Beach, but Beach I cannot beat. I am thoroughly satisfied, and would now back Beach to row any man m the world, and lay all I am possessed of on him." When asked what he had lost on the race, he replied* " I have lost nothing." One bystander remarked, "Well, Hanlan, if you haven't lost money on the race, you have lost some, thing more valuable, "—meaning, of course, the championship. To this the Canadian replied, " I did not lose that either, because it wasn't mine to lose • I tried to win it, but I was overmatched,"