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 BELFORDS, CLARKE & CO., PUBLISHERS. 
 
 1879. 
 

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 C. B. ROBINSON, 
 PRINTER, 
 JORDAN STREET, TORONTO. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
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 ^HE popularity of the Canadian champion oarsman, 
 
 ^^i^ whose worthy deeds this Epinikian ode unworthily 
 records, is well attested by the fact, that all who have 
 had any part in placing this little memorial of his exploits 
 before the public have contributed their valued services 
 gratuitously. 
 
 Messrs. Rolph, Smith & Co. kindly furnish the cover, 
 Messrs. Brown Bros, the binding, and C. B. Robinson, 
 Esq., the composition, free ; while the enterprising pub- 
 lishers, who, without my knowledge, secured all this 
 assistance, voluntarily agreed to devote the entire pro- 
 ceeds of the publication to the Hanlan Homestead Fund. 
 The Toronto News Company have also kindly undertaken 
 its circulation without charge. 
 
 In tendering my grateful acknowledgments to all these 
 
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 firms, I indulge the hope that the object, which so readily 
 commended itself to their good offices, may secure for this 
 little book an unprecedented sale, and so, in an incidental 
 way, assist' in enlisting the sympathies of the Canadian 
 public in behalf of a Fund, which ought, in some adequate 
 way, to represent the goodwill of the nation for a youth 
 who has certainly deserved well of his country. 
 
 W. H. C. KERR. 
 
 The Cedars, 
 Brantfcird, Juhj Ut, /<S7.9. 
 
HANLAN'S RECORD. 
 
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 ^pWARD HANLAN was born at Toronto, 
 ^ July 12, 1855, and while quite young was 
 taken by his parents to the Island opposite the city, 
 where his father opened a hotel, and where the family 
 have ever since resided. He is 5 ft. 8f in. in height. 
 His first appearance in a race was made when he 
 was sixteen years of age, when he formed one of a 
 crew composed of fishermen. In the following year 
 he figured as a successful competitor in a couple of 
 skifi* races, and in 1873 first rowed a race in a shell, 
 the contest being for the amateur championship of 
 the Bay. He was again victorious, defeating Sam 
 Williams and McKen. Next year he met Thomas 
 Louden in a race for the championship of Burling- 
 ton Bay, this being his initial professional engage- 
 
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 ment. The result added another to his list of 
 victories. Louden challenged him to row another 
 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 James 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 
 : , Ua, defeating Harry Coulter, Pat Luther, 
 
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 Plaisted, and easily disposing of Alex. Brayley in the 
 iiual heat, which was rowed in 21:09| — the best 
 three-mile time on record until Courtney cut down 
 the figures last year. In I. arch, 1877, the Secretary 
 of the Ontario Rowing Club forwarded to the Clipper 
 Office one hundred dollars in gold as a deposit for 
 a proposed match between Hanlan and Billy Scharff 
 (then champion), to row three miles, for $1,000 a 
 side, on Toronto Bay ; but as Scharff had just made 
 a match with Eph. Morris, the challenge from the 
 the Canadian was not accepted. Hanlan next 
 appeared at the regatta held at Silver Lake, near 
 Boston, Mass., June 18th, when he was defeated 
 by Fred. Plaisted, Frenchy Johnson, and others, 
 owing to a mishap in the shape of an injured out- 
 rigger. On June 25th another regatta was held 
 on the same water, when Hanlan won first prize, 
 beating Johnson and Driscoll, Plaisted not starting. 
 The Kanuck next took part in the scullers' race at 
 the Boston Fourth-of-July regatta, and was ruled 
 out for fouling Plaisted, whom he ran into at the 
 turning stake. His conduct on this occasion gave 
 great offence to the regatta officials, who subse- 
 quently passed a resolution recommending that in 
 future Hanlan be debarred from participation in all 
 
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 races under municipal management. This action 
 was, however, upon appeal from Hanlan himself, 
 and through representations of gentlemen who had 
 taken him in hr.nd after his return to Canada, re- 
 considered, and the bar against him removed. After 
 the victory of Ross over Brayley in the fixstest time 
 on record for four miles, the Toronto sculler pub- 
 lished a challenge to Ross, whose backers were not 
 prepared to talk business on this basis. However, 
 Wallace's defeat of Plaisted, coupled with the in- 
 different performances of Hanlan at Boston and 
 vicinity, inspired them with greater confidence, and 
 about the middle of August Ross came out with a 
 challenge to row any man in the Dominion, Hanlan 
 preferred, a five-mile race for $1,000 a side, offering 
 to give or take $300 for expenses, to row at St. 
 John, N.B., or Toronto, or to row at Springfield, 
 Massachusetts, each paying his own expenses. This 
 suited Hanlan, and articles were signed to contend 
 for $1,000 a side. They pulled the race on Monday 
 afternoon, Oct. 15th, on Toronto Bay, five miles, one 
 turn, for $2,000 and the championship of the British 
 Provinces, the result being a very hollow victory for 
 Hanlan, who was the non-favourite, but easily 
 rowed away from his man. Wednesday afternoon, 
 
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 May 15th, the sculling match between Hanlan and 
 Fred. A. Plaisted, of New York city, for $1,000 a 
 side, was decided over a straight-away two-mile 
 course on Toronto Bay, the former again achieving 
 a hollow victory. No official time was taken, and 
 the reports estimated it all the way from 13:14 to 
 15:12. On June 20th the race between Hanlan and 
 Evan Morris, of Pittsburg, for the championship of 
 America, five miles, was decided on the Alleghany 
 Kiver, and proved an easy victory for the former. 
 Hanlan's next event was his second match with 
 Wallace Ross, which, after repeated postponements, 
 came off on the Kennebeccasis course on July 31st 
 last. At the first mile stake Ross fell overboard, 
 and left the race a walk over for the Toronto cham- 
 pion. The race was for $1,000 a side, five miles with 
 a turn. Two weeks after, on August 12 th, Hanlan 
 was first in the professional scull race, four miles, 
 $1,000, of the Barrie Regatta Club, rowed on Kemp- 
 enf eldt Bay, Wallace Ross taking second money, and 
 George H. Hosmer, of Boston, third. The contestants 
 who failed to get a place were Pat Luther, McKen, 
 Elliot, Plaisted, Morris, and Coulter. His next con- 
 test was that at Lachine, in which he defeated 
 Charles E. Courtney, the Union Springs sculler. 
 
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 The event, which took place on the 3rd ot October 
 last, created a great deal of excitement because of 
 the fame attaching to both coTitestants. The race 
 was a keen one and resulted in favour of Hanlan ; 
 time 36 min. 22 sec. ; distance five miles. But 
 Hanlan's as yet greatest victory — although it was a 
 very easy one — was that rowed with John Hawdon, 
 of Delaval, on the Tyne, on the 5th of May last. 
 The Toronto boy on that occasion came in as he 
 pleased, his time being 32 min. 5 sec. He was five 
 lengths ahead at the close, but he might have led 
 by half a mile if he had been so inclined. 
 
 The preceding account of Hanlan's career is taken 
 from the Toronto Globe, and appeared in that 
 journal, after the race with Hawdon. Since that 
 time the race for the Championship with Elliott, of 
 Blyth, has been rowed and won. This occurred on 
 the 16th of June, 1879, over the Tyne Course, and 
 as the circumstances connected with it have been 
 fully reported in the public prints, and are so recent, 
 it will be sufficient to record here the main features 
 of the race. 
 
 Never before were the Tyne's banks so crowded, 
 
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 on the occasion of an aquatic contest, with inter- 
 ested spectators, as on the morning of the 16th of 
 June last, when Hanlan and Elliott contended for 
 the Sportsman's Cup and the Championship of Eng- 
 land. Long before daybreak the sport-loving people 
 of Newcastle and vicinity had taken their stations, 
 where each for himself expected to witness the most 
 interesting features of bhe contest. As the day 
 advanced, trains from all directions deposited their 
 living freight by thousands, and all the avenues lead- 
 insr to the river, or commandincf a view of the 
 course were blocked with dense masses of spectators, 
 while every available steamer, and every species of 
 floating craft crowded with visitors, made the navi- 
 gation of the river a somewhat difficult affair. 
 Both men were in rare trim for the contest, and 
 both were equally confident of success. The odds 
 which had all along been largely in favour of Hanlan 
 grew less and less as the hour for the race arrived, 
 the Tynesiders betting freely in small sums on their 
 champion, whom they believed invincible. A little 
 after twelve o'clock the contestants took their places, 
 and shortly afterwards a fair start was made and 
 the race began. Hanlan's bark Toronto led the way 
 from start to fimsh. He pulled that same strong and 
 
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 long stroke which has so often deceived his opponent 
 and decided the contest in his favour. Rowing 
 ahead, as is his wont, he eased off from time to 
 time until Elliott's craft lessened the distance 
 between them, and then with a few powerful strokes 
 drew quickly ahead. Elliott rowed in magnificent 
 form, and struggled manfully to the close. But it 
 was all in vain. Hanlan won by eleven boat 
 lengths, the course having been rowed over in 55 
 seconds less than the fastest time on record. The 
 victory was a decisive one, and with that generous 
 spirit which animates the British nation the Can- 
 adian victor was everywhere received with enthu- 
 siasm. In its graphic account of the race, the New- 
 castle Chronicle concludes as follows : — 
 
 " Our best sculler has been beaten by a better 
 man, and we must be content with rejoiciug at the 
 fact that the conqueror, although born beyond the 
 Atlantic, is of the same race as ourselves, and is a 
 citizen of the same vast Empire. Canada has reason 
 to be " proud of her boy," and we doubt not that 
 people of the New Dominion will realize the full 
 significance of the victory that their representative 
 sculler has achieved, and will rejoice accordingly." 
 
EDIVARD HANLAN. 
 
 AN EPINIKIAN ODE. 
 
 I. 
 
 
 f^RAIL to the champion sculler ! 
 *%^ Toronto's manly son, 
 Who, across the line, and on the Tyne, 
 
 Hath famous victories won ! 
 And with three cheers for Hanlan, 
 
 The champion of the oar, 
 Let us shout, Hurrah for Canada ! 
 
 The land which such hero bore. 
 
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 II. 
 
 In ancient Greece the victor, 
 
 Who at Olympia strove, 
 Was crowned with wreaths of olive 
 
 In Jove's all-hallowed crove : 
 His person was held sacred, 
 
 Kings his companions were ; 
 And envied the fate of the happy state 
 
 Which claimed him for its heir. 
 
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 III. 
 
 At Pytho and at Corinth, 
 
 The athlete's prize who won, 
 Shed glory on his country, 
 
 His kindred, and his town; 
 His statue in the temples. 
 
 In ivory and gold. 
 By the side of gods and heroes 
 
 The gymnast's prowess told. 
 
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 IV. 
 
 Returning to his people 
 
 Fresh bays the conqueror waits ; 
 The city battered down its walls 
 
 To make him wider gates, 
 And joyous crowds in triumph 
 
 The champion bore along, 
 While a Pindar sang his praises 
 
 In loftiest strains of song. 
 
 V. 
 
 But no victor at Olympia, 
 
 Nor by the Isthmian strand, 
 Ever received such welcome 
 
 On reaching his own land, 
 As that awaits the champion 
 
 Who ploughs the Atlantic's foam, 
 With impatient keel and heart right leal 
 
 Returning to his home ; 
 
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 Save that no worthy poet 
 
 For him shall wreathe a lay, 
 Since none with equal laurels 
 
 Such victor garland may. 
 He won at the Centennial, 
 
 And by Ohio's waves, 
 And where the Eastern river 
 
 Past Hampton seaward raves. 
 
 YII. 
 
 Toronto, Pittsburg, Barrie, 
 
 The City, " Quaker" hight. 
 And the lovely Bay of Burlington 
 
 Bear witness of his might. 
 He won in every contest. 
 
 At each regatta won, 
 Till at Lachine he overcame 
 
 Columbia's foremost son. 
 
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 Now, shame on the foul slander 
 
 Of those who meanly tried, 
 At Courtney's cost to pander 
 
 To a boastful people's pride; 
 For Courtney was defeated, 
 
 Not for the want of will, 
 Nor by the bribe of treason, 
 
 But by superior skill. 
 
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 IX. 
 
 From sea to sea victorious, 
 
 He left his home a while, 
 To gather bays more glorious 
 
 In Britain's sea-girt isle ; 
 And how he played with Hawdon, 
 
 And how sponged out his shell, 
 With tears of mirth and laughter, 
 
 The Tyneside pitmen tell. 
 
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 X. 
 
 La.st, matched with England's champion, 
 
 On Tyne's excited tide, 
 To see his daily practice 
 
 They flocked from far and wide ; 
 Each touting wharfside ranger 
 
 The mystic magic sought, 
 Which the Canadian stranger 
 
 Had lurking in his hoat : 
 
 XI. 
 
 With air-bags and machinery. 
 
 The miners stoutly held, 
 Or by some secret influence, 
 
 His skiff* must be propelled ; 
 For never such a sculler. 
 
 Of form so lithe and fine, 
 Or such modest mien, had yet been seen 
 
 On the Thames, or on the Tyne. 
 
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 XII. 
 
 But no man knows save Hanlan, 
 
 If even Hanlan knows, 
 How fast his bark can travel 
 
 When at his best he rows : 
 Like the flight of an eagle's pinions, 
 
 When to the sun he soars, 
 Is the graceful sweep and powerful stroke 
 
 Of his well-feather'd oars. 
 
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 XIII. 
 
 Now, not a tew such striplings 
 
 This broad Dominion rears ; 
 Since Wallace Ross and Warren Smith 
 
 Are well nigh Hanlan's peers. 
 Girded with North-star vigfour, 
 
 And nurtured by the sea. 
 By mountain, lake and river, 
 
 A hardy brood they be. 
 
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 West of the Rocky Mountains, 
 
 Such youth you may behold 
 Braving the Fraser's rapids, 
 
 In venturous quest of gold ; 
 And where Muskoka's camp-fires 
 
 Cast up a ruddy glare ; 
 Where Madawaska's springtide floods 
 
 Their floating forests bear ; 
 
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 Where Montmorenci s bridal veil 
 
 Its shower of pearls displays ; 
 And where thro' mountain-gorges green 
 
 The Metapedia strays. 
 These eastward turned and waited 
 
 Impatient for the day, 
 When their compatriot might win 
 
 Tyne's championship away. 
 
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 XVI. 
 
 The day has come ! From midnight 
 
 Until the dawn broke clear, 
 Crowds lined the banks in serried ranks 
 
 And every wharf and pier ; 
 With craft of all descriptions 
 
 The river was alive ; 
 Each bridge with human beings 
 
 Swarmed like a great bee-hive. 
 
 XYII. 
 
 The champions take their stations, 
 
 Promptly each takes his place, 
 In the sight of all the nations 
 
 Of the Anglo-Saxon race. 
 " Now, three to one," roared Elliott, 
 
 " That I lead all the way !" 
 And his stalwa.rt arm and lusty form 
 
 Might feebler foe dismay. 
 
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 XVIII. 
 
 Such challenge disregarded 
 
 Might not unnerve the youth, 
 Whose speech on the unwon victory 
 
 Was written out, good sooth ! 
 The boast was scarcely uttered, 
 
 " They're off!" the umpire cried, 
 And away they sped, but Hanlan led 
 
 With oars superbly plied. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 Like arrow from the bowstrino- 
 
 Swiftly he sped along 
 Past Grindstone Quay, past Redheugh Bridge 
 
 And all the astonished throng. 
 Past the meadow-isle, whose human tides, 
 
 Like billows, sway and roll, 
 And by ten good lengths a winner. 
 
 Swept gaily past the goal. 
 
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 Then from the river's crowded banks, 
 
 From roof-top, bridge, and pier, 
 Thrice thirty thousand lusty throats 
 
 Sent up a mighty cheer ; 
 And many a British city 
 
 Caught up the wild acclaim, 
 And the Western world from sea to sea 
 
 Resounded with his fame. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 And while St. Lawrence to the Gulf 
 
 Majestic takes his way ; 
 While through the Thousand Islands 
 
 His sunlit waters play ; 
 While soft auroras chase the stars 
 
 Athwart our Northern skies ; 
 While Indian summer tints the woods 
 
 With iridescent dyes ; 
 
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 XXII. 
 
 While the maidens shall weave chaplets 
 
 In Huron's maple dells ; 
 While o'er Rimouski's jewelled snows 
 
 Shall ring the Christmas bells ; 
 While great Niagara's thunder-stroke 
 
 Th' affrighted rocks shall shake ; 
 While the long moonbeams nightly play 
 
 Across Ontario's lake ; 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 While Ottawa, from storied cliff, 
 
 Uplifts her crown of towers • 
 While modest merit still shall charm 
 
 This Canada of ours ; 
 So long in distant story. 
 As time rolls on apace, 
 Shall it be told by young and old 
 How Hanlan won the race. 
 
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 XXIV. 
 
 Now three good cheers for Hanlan ! 
 
 Our flag to the breeze unfurl'd, 
 For the Champion of two continents, 
 
 The champion of the world ! 
 And three times three for Canada, 
 
 Land of the brave and free, 
 The youngest of the nations : 
 
 The Home of Liberty. 
 
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