BEACH V. HANLAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 228, 12 November 1887, Page 12

BEACH Y. HANLAN.

B\ the Australian mail we learn that the two contestants for the sculling championship of the world which comes off in four weeks' time are both getting on well with their training. Beach is stationed at Peniith, on the Nepean, and is putting in jroodwojk. On Tuesday morning last he pulled over the full championship distance, rowing a long, steady stroke and going as well txb could be desired. In the atternoon, in company with Kemp, his trainer, he fct.ii Led out .shoifcly after 4, and after (Aiming at the biidge both went away together at a great pace, rowing 36 strokes a minute. This speed was maintained for nearly two miles, when both stopped, and turning round came home to the shed at a .steady pace. The champion pulled up strong and well as usual, but J fancy the severe work is beginning to tell on Kemp. Beach has made himself extremely popular at Fenrith by his unassuming manneis and the interest he has taken in local events of a .^poi tingnatui c, and he is in greatrequi&ition to act aci judge in all races there. The champion expresses considerable surprise at the news ol the defeat of Gaudaur by Teenier. Ever since his desperate race ■vwfch fclio foinicr ho has entertained a \ery high opinion of him. "It isn't that he's fast, you know," he said, " but he keeps on going all the time." Beach considered the late match a certainty for Gaudaur, and from the fact that he was defeated by half a mile concludes some accident must have happened. Alter his race with Hanlan, Beach •positively declines to row any more races, but in the e\ent of the flanlan-Trickett match coming oil' will go to Rockhampton to give an exhibition of rowing. lUnlan's quarters are afc Mortlake, not far fioni Beach's, where Brett, the amateur champ'on ot New South Wales, and Perkins, the English sculler, are training him. Last Tue.-cuy Hanlan went out in the morning, he and Perkins going from the bhed to the fetai ting point ot the championship Gourfre % and fiom thence down to the finish, Brett accompanying them part of the way. The hifjt two miles of the couise the ex-champion covered al 34 to this minute, lor the remainder slackening down lo about 28. In the afternoon Hanlai. <uid tVrkins pulled down from the shod to thy bridge below the Brothers and thun back at about 28 to the minute, increasing at the end of the return journey to 32 or 34. Hanlan both times wont out in the "R. A. Watson," and appeared cjnifre delighted ■with tho latest piece of Sullivan's work-

manship. The Canadian has only to slightly reduce his weight now, being within three or four pounds of his rowing weight. He is in excellent health, and is determined to make a hard try ior the coveted prize.