O'Connor at Home.
O'Coxxou, the oarsman, arrived at Toronto from England on October 2. He says he was fairly and squarely beaten by Searle. Losing the race was a heavy loss to him. He thinks he was a little light, perhaps overtrained, and the climate did not seem to agree with him. The London water he found bad. He thinks Searle is not a scienced sculler, though he gets great speed from his style. He rows with crooked arms and bare finish. He reaches very far, and finishes far back, a practice which does not increase the speed of rowers generally. "I would be confident," O'Connor added, "of winning against him in any still water in America for oOUO or 10,000 dols. in another race this side of the Atlantic. He intimated he would give me a race in Australia, and said he might come to \meviea next summer.' O'Connor was givtu a banquet, 1000 dollars and a dia« mond pin by the people of Toronto.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5622, 18 November 1889, Page 2
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