Edward Hanlan

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Excerpt from Edward Hanlan: A Lay of Young CanadaMent. The result added another to his list of victories. Louden challenged him to row an other race, over a mile course, for $100 dollars a side, in the summer of 1875, and they met on Toronto Bay, Hanlan again showing himself to be the better man, as he won by nearly two lengths. During the same season he won a medal offered by the Governor General in a two-mile pull at Toronto, defeating Louden and J ames Douglas. In the spring of 1876 he vanquished Douglas and Wm. Mcken, and on August 12th following became possessed of the belt emblematic of the championship of Ontario, offered by the Toronto Rowing Club, his only opponent being mcken. At this regatta Hanlan likewise won a fisherman's race, three 'pairs of sculls, his partners being mcken and Elliot, and the craft engaged being boats actually in use that summer. All of these races were of minor importance, however, and the reputation they brought was but local. It remained for Hanlan to give the rowing world a startling surprise at the Centennial regatta on the Schuylkill River, when his name became known on both sides of the Atlantic, through the ease with which he won the first prize in the professional regatta, defeating Harry Coulter, Pat Luther.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.