AQUATIC NOTES.
By "Mud-Hook."
Sam Dove sailed both Ika and Vie when they won at Tauranga last week.
The challenge issued a week or so back from Brett to C. Hewson, to row in dingies, has been taken up by the latter. A portion of the stake of £10 aside has been put up, and the men will meet on April 25th, and row from the Bastion to Queen-street wharf, a three-mile course.
To-morrow (Saturday) "W. Beach and Ed. Hanlan meefc on the Paramatta River to contest for the proudest title a sculler can earn, the championship of the world, and the handsome stake of £500 aside. This time the positions the men held x^revious to their first meeting are reversed. Beach is now defending, not attacking, the proud citadel, while Hanlan has the greatest spur possible to urge him on— the knowledge that he came out to Australia as champion of champions, and that if he fails to redeem what he lost last year he must go back a disgraced man, and a poor one. Both are noble exponents of a noble art, and both will do all they know,
the one to keep and the other to wrest from him the coveted chaplet of laurels. Eor my part, I can't help thinking that our William, will be a bit too good for Canadian Ned, and that when the wires flash the news across the pond the winner's name will spell Beach.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 237, 28 March 1885, Page 6
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