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. 8. 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 Upper 
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