NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 



ways run north from the main plank walk towards 

 the inner lagoon, giving charming glimpses of a truly 

 Venetian combination of canals and streets. One of 

 these cross roads leads to Centre Island Park, famed 

 for family picnics and amateur baseball matches. 

 East of this, on the northern or harbour shore of the 

 Island, are the grounds and clubhouse of the Royal 

 Canadian Yacht Club, the scene of many delightful 

 social functions. 



Toronto first became celebrated as the home of the 

 world's champion rower, E. J. Hanlan, and its 

 supremacy in aquatic sports has been well main- 

 tained. O'Connor and Lou Scholes were also world 

 champions, the latter winning the Diamond Sculls at 

 Henley in 1904. His brother John had previously 

 won the amateur light-weight boxing championship of 

 England and America, a combination of honours not- 

 likely to be repeated in one family. Goulding, the 

 champion walker of the world, and G. S. Lyon, 

 the champion amateur golfer of America at the 

 St. Louis Exhibition, are also Torontonians. Ath- 

 letics are extremely popular. Thousands take part 

 in both summer and winter sports, for which the 

 climate usually gives ample opportunity. Although 

 lacrosse is the national game, hockey is the favourite 

 in winter and baseball in summer. The cool and 

 beautiful location of the ball grounds at Hanlan's 

 Point helps to swell the attendance, which sometimes 

 reaches twenty thousand. Toronto has seldom expe- 

 rienced more dramatic moments than when the Tipper 

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