The Great Tyne Boat Race Hype
The great, grand, majestic, magnificent, solemn, awful, sublime, and momentous, event of the age seems to have just taken place! At least one might judge so when he sees the papers on both sides of the Atlantic full of it, scores of thousands crowding out to witness it, and immense sums of money changing hands because of it. And what is it? Why, two men, it is no matter whether the reader ever knows their names or not, got into some boats on the river Tyne, England, to see which could row the faster. And lo! one rowed faster than the other! And this one was from Canada, and the other from England. And immediately all the world is agog, and men can neither think, read, or talk, of anything else. Verily, fame must be famishing for subjects.