The Sun.
London, England, 1847-05-26 00:00:00

GRAND HEAT.

Hoare (Red) 1

Gret•n (-Blue 2
%Viddick (Yellow) 3
Blue took the lead, but was imediately passed by Red,
and these two fouling, Yeliow in advance. Red soon
recovered his place. and won by six lengths.

PEDEsTRIANISM.
BARLOW AM) BYROM'S FOUR-MILE RACE
FOR 301. A SIDE.

The race between John Barlow (alias Tollick) and
James Byrom, the Lancashire runner, attracted several
hundreds of the patrons of pedestrian.= on Monday to
the Rosemary Branch, Peckham, in the spaoious enclo-
sure of which house, once forming part of the East Sur-
rey Race-course, the match was brought to issue. The
men are well known to the public from previous per-
formances. Barlow, who was born on the 28th of Nov.,
1819, at Cockey-moor, near Bolton, Lancashire. is in
his 28th year, and stands 5 feet 5 j inches. Lie sa a
likely looking lathy fellow,- with: ,a • greyhound like
h
outline, and oame to the post in a style that did credit
to his trainer. His principal performances, and those
which gave reasonable confidence to his friends, were his
victories over 111.xfiel 1, the North Star, whom he de-
feated in a four-mile race over Doncaster course for 501.

a side, on the 26th of F. bruar), 1845 (time 21 minutes
10 second-); William Robinson, of Newton Moor, the
like distance for the same amount, on the 13th of May.
in the same year, at Newton-in-the-Willoas • and his
well run race with Greenhaigh, on Knutsford Race-
course, which ended in a draw, June 25, also in the same
year. He, however, succumbed in a tea-mile race to
Mucks, ou the last day of 1845. In 1846, however,
he defeated blanks in turn, in a ten-mile handi-
cap, having 300 yards start ; and Lovett, of Doncaster,
200 yards. The performances of Byrom we have given
on a former occasion ; we shall not, therefore, repeat
them here. Byrom, though known as the " Lancashire
Runner," is a native of Brigworth, near Huddersfield,'
in Yorkshire; his height also, five feet six inches and a
half, and his frame considerably more athletic than his
antagonist's. He is three years the senior of Barlow,
having numbered thirty-one summers. The men showed
on the ground about four o'clock, but upwards of an
hour was "cut to waste" in re-measuring the ground and
selecting umpires and a referee. At length, aul being in
readiness, the word "off" was given, and the men started
fairly, Byrom with a shade of a lead. We ought here
to state that the ground is enclosed by a stout hoarding,
and the course marks d out by a stout inner ring of posts
and chains, within which the multitude principally
arranged themselves. The circuit is 647 yards, and this
had to be made eleven times, minus 77 yards, to corn,
plete the distance of four miles, consequently the win
ping flag was at length short of the starting scratch
For the first 300 yards Byrom led, but in the next the
men occasionally passed each other, and the first
turn was completed in close company, Byrom lead-
ing one yard. The pace for this and the following
round
did not seem first rate. At the second turn Tollick
led three yards; as they came down what the Yankees
would call the back stretch, Byrom overhauled his anta-
gonist, and led at the third roundly by a couple of yards.
'rollick fetched this up by pulling foot, shortly after
Byrom, and completing the fourth circuit five
passing
yards in front. In the fifth, Barlow increased the inter-
val between himself and his adversary by twenty yards;
in the sixth (having run somewhat over half the dis-
tance) time, 11 minutes 3 seconds, Byrom was twenty
eight yard, bel ind. He, however, tried a " spurt," but
in vain, he could not much alter the state of affairs. In
the seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth time of goinf
round. Barlow still held his own running light, springy,
and with a long stride, while Byrom seemed to labour
and go short; in fact, he appeared rather fleshy, and
He was thirty-five yards behind on
completely fagged.