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the best scullers in the world, and Beach, Stansbury, 

 Matterson, Searle, Laycock, Rush, and Trickett stand 

 out from others that might be named. I have often 

 seen burly Bill Beach in Sydney. Unlike most athletes 

 he has stuck to his money and not squandered it. 



The last time I saw Trickett he was preaching 

 to a crowd near the post-office, Sydney, much in 

 the fashion adopted by an ardent follower of General 

 Booth. Trickett is evidently anxious to scull to- 

 wards the Golden Shore now he has given up dis- 

 pensing liquor in a Queensland hotel. 



Rush, when I left Sydney, kept an hotel at the 

 corner of King: Street and York Street: Beach's 

 hotel, as it is still called, being at the corner of 

 King Street and Pitt Street. Johnny Deeble, as 

 he is styled, formerly kept the " Angel '^ in Pitt 

 Street, now run by the genial Frank Wilson. 

 Deeble makes a book and has given up dabbling 

 in rowing matters. The Punches are well known in 

 connection with sculling, and Frank Punch keeps the 

 hotel bearing his name in Market Street. 



One sculler has taken to bicycling and makes 

 a very good show at it. Poor Scarlets funeral in 

 Sydney was one of the most impressive sights ever 

 seen there. It gave the late Governor Dufi''s funeral 

 procession the go by. 



Many a time have I passed the monument erected 

 to Searle on the Parramatta river, one of the best 



