EDWARD HANLAN.

Observer, Volume 6, Issue 150, 28 July 1883, Page 11

EDWARD HANLAN.

Edwabd Hanlan, whose portrait is given above, and who basso repeatedly proved his right to the title of champion of the world, was born in the ,city of Toronto, Canada, and is now in liis twenty-ninth year. His rowing career has been a series of the most remarkable and brilliant victories that have ever fallen to the lot of any , sculler. His first race was at the age of sixteen, when, with others, he scored his first win in a fisherman's race at Toronto Bay. After winning some minor races, he made his first appearance in a shell in 1873, and won the championship of the Bay, defeating two others. In 187't he won the championship of Burlington Bay, from London, and defeated the same sculler again in a private match. He next carried off the GovernorGeneral's medal at the Toronto Kegatta, and then won tlie champion belt and another race at Lake Ontario. At the Centennial Regatta, held during the Philadelphia Exhibition, he beat Coulter, Lu'trer, Plaisted, and others in the various heats ; J and he would probably have met Higgins, who was subsequently champion of England, were' it j not that the latter claimed a foul by Lut'rer in the fourth heat ; md the two men being ordered to row over again, the English sculler did not put in an appearance at the hour appointed. In the following heat, Hanlan defeated Plaisted and Lutrer — two scullers of renown in America — and then, won the final heat from Bray ley, after, a close and 'exciting race, in the fastest time recorded up to. that date.' Hanlan's next appearancfe was at. the Silver Lake Regatta, near Boston, where he suffered his first defeat, having had the misfortune to, breajc, one of his outriggers.' He was disqualified for fouling Plaisted at^tlie Civic Regatta in Boston Farbour, on the 4<t'h'of July, 'but the disqualification was. r subsequeritiyi^eihoved.'' A'iriatch was then made for him with Wallace Ross, for £1000 a-sfde and the championship of the Dominion of Canada, which Hanlan won as he pleased. This closed, the season for 1877. During the following season he met and, defeated F..A: Piaisl.e.d, pf'.New, York— ; the only man i that,' up to the present, liad finished in front, of the,. Canadian -wpuder-^r-f or ■,1000 r doll:i,rs a-Bide, t aiid Morris, of, Pitt3>urg, for, the championship. In an open five-mile race. at! { •BrQO-kvilley, ivith prizes of ,500, dOQ,\ .arid'2oo; 'd'p^ars,/.rfor, r tKe < ' first,', second, and.; thir^ ;^K

beating his opponent easily. Laycock endeavoured to uphold the sculling honour of the Antipodes, but he was also defeated, in 1881, while last year both Trickett and Boyd were defeated by the champion. Another race for the championships £1000 took place between Hanlan and Kennedy on May 30th of this year, when Hanlan won by 15 'lengths. The manager of this event said that from the contest the Canadian would receive the largest sum of money ever awarded to an oarsman. The defeat of Eoss last week is the most recent chapter in a volume of brilliant triumphs. The next events of the season include on August 15, a double-scull race between Conley and Hamer, of Halifax, and Lee and Hanlan for £200 a-side, at Port of Pines.