The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-30
THU NEW ORLEANS DEMOCRAT, SUNDAY MARCH 80 1870.

hour, w. Gale walked 1900 miles In 1000
hours, starting ut the commencement OF each
hour These are the only two properly authen-
ticated feats of that description on rec2ru:
novel race has been arranged % Oxforu,
England. VIM Perkins, the champion short
distance walker, has been challenger 70 Walk
n mile for G10e, on the towing path, aRainst
James Beaa1ey, the CHAMPION ptnVer WIN
stream, in what Is termed best Doats;
A walking match for GOO and the llity Inlle
Championship OF Great Britain has been ar
ranged between Arthur Hancock ana Wm'
Howse The match is 70 take p laee aS i aftv
don kpril 10. Both men have coVeleh hiey
miles In the fastest time on record;
| At Nottingham, England, the SIX Gays pc
desttien tournament was won by Peter Gross
land, 0Leary's old opponent. Inc wa, ,sa,.s
hours we're limited to fourteen per a!eih
Grassland covered 332 miles In n hours. ASH
burn came In second, covering 300 niles
| The fastest time in which a mile has peen a
rrn are Am. &c.. by VIM. Lang, down mn, u.
W. Richards, on level ground, In their dead
heat, at the Royal Oak Park Grounds, Mali
chester.
4 The longest running jump on record was
made by j. Howard Of Bradford, VINO Jumps,
| 20 feet inches from firm block OF Woou,
| two feet In length, wedge-shaped, ana ra,seo
four inches In the front on Chester Race
| Course
The fastest time on record for walking ono
mile Ia q minutes % seconds, made by Wlllaii
Perkins, the English champion. George sew
| ard ran 100 yards In pa seconds. II. Buttery
ran quarter Of a mile In 49, seconds. Both
are the fastest times on record.
| There Ia n lesson which every pedestfihn
should write on the walls OF his bedroom, III
letters OF living light: Long distance trav-
cling requires combined strength anu en-
durance This strength aud endurance come
from food, not stimuant. BeBf can outWalk
| whisky"
O'Leary can yet beat any walker In six
day contest. II was once thought that thi
walkers must outlast the runners, bsrr
Corkey and Rowell have shown that tho -
verse Ii the fact and OLeary believes tn
the English runners will go GOO miles In 8
days before they stop.
Rumors are rife that Weary will enter In
the next London walk for the belt. One thing
Ia settled with reference to the Ashley belt
Walking will never bring u back To this
country, and II is doubtful II any one mar
possesses tho endurance to win the trophy
three successive times.
Il GARNER, tho famous billiard expert sailed
from Havre Oh the twenty-second instant fol
New York. Maurice Vignaud and Mons. Plot
the two champion billiard players Of France
accompany him. Vlgnaux will brlns
with him the champion cup; Both OF TN
French experts are To figure In the two inter
| national billiard tournaments to be held II
this city next month.
LONDON March 2O.-"Blower" Brown has
posted forfeit and challenged Rowell t.
walk for the Ashley belt Mt Istngton in June
, Brown came in third In tho internationa
! tournament last March, when he was beatei
by OIeary and Vaughan. In the tourDamen
! which Corkey won last October Brown catn
: IN second, covering COG miles. IL ls claimeC
!, that he can run 54b miles In six days.
Donald Dinnlc, the champion athlete o
Scotland, issues d challenge Offering to com
pete against Thomas Lynch, James DAILY, tn
1rish-American champion athletes; Duncal
D O. Ross or H. w. johnson, the Canadian cham
pion athletes for 1850 to G500 n side and tn
: championship of the world, at the following
t contests: Throwing sc pounds by ring iron
side "fair st&nd putting g pounds h iron
] hammer, % pounds, "fair stand" THROWN!
r light hammer, l6 pounds. fair stand
I putting heavy stone, % pounds 7Ls feet allow
b ed; putting light stone, 10 pounds, IA fee
allowed tossing the caber; running hig
y leap; running 100 yards, with or without hun
0 dies. These contests must be nil performe
z according to the rules existing In Scotland
II He stipulates that he shall receive ESQ for ex
:. penses II the contest takes place In America
. or he will allow the same amount for contee
Il to take place I'm Scotland.