Show IT is a doctrine of the sporting men I that there never was so good a man or horse but a better could be found and the theory finds strong confirmation in the case of Hanlan The Canadian oarsman oars-man has for years been the acquatic wonder won-der of the world He vanquished all comers in Canada and America and as easily humbled the best oarsmen of Great Britain Perhaps no man in the sporting world ever enjoyed so long a career of triumphs unbroken by a single defeat But the sporting adage proved true in his case A few months ago he was beaten in Australia by Beach His friends sought explanations that would account for his defeat on some other ground than the real one but there were none A few days ago he was beaten by the same oarsman a second time and the latest accounts agree that his loss of the race was solely due to the fact that he had at last met a better man In view of the lesson enforced en-forced by Hanlans career Maud S perhaps per-haps congratulates herself on her retirement retire-ment and it is probably not to the regret of Sullivan that the police always interfere inter-fere whenever there is the smallest probability prob-ability that he will get the worst of it |