Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-17
How Far Can a Man So ON Foot I'm Six



Hazaeps performs nce OF 600 miles in six
days, says the New York Sum- was clearly
not the limit OF his ability. Before the close
of the race he had his hacker TO bet on his
going 625 miles. No one could be found TO
take this bet, so he contented himself with
600 miles, though there is not the slightest
doubt that he could have made the greater
distance if there had been any special in
ducement. His hacker thinks he could
have gone 649 miles in the six days.
For a six-day race, as in all protracted
struggles of course the quality of muscular
endurance is the first requisite. But that will
be found useless unless there goes with il
strong digestion. John Ennis was certainly
man of extraordinary natural endurance and
pluck, but he had to abandon his efforts to
make fortune through go-as-you-please
races, simply because his stomach would not
go with him. After endurance and digestion
good condition being always understood-
comes gait. Horses win with good and bad
gaits; and so also of the men who have
rolled up great scores; some travel with ease
and with no apparent muscular exertion ex-
cept what is directly employed in locomo-
tien; and some go laboriously, with tine ex-
pense of great deal of muscular effort that
can be OF no service in really driving the
BODY forward. III the man that clearly
wastes power can keep up with the man that
goes with no such waste it is evidently
because he can generate more force
TO waste, which implies better
digestive apparatus; and il must be remem-
bered that the ungainly Fitzgerald, in scor-
ing $50 miles in the previous match, showed
his undeniable ability to go over 600 miles.
Also man should be able to go well both
walking and running. OLeary, in con-
dition, easily walked away from his
competitors; but when a runner came
against him he was hopelessly beaten.
He could walk, but could not run.
So, the old grenadier Khrnne pos
sessed enormous endurance, but could not
reach the runners. See, now, what sort of a
man has just gone his 600 miles with ease.
Hazsel always has been known as a great
runner for any distance from five to twenty
miles; but he was never celebrated a
walker. Anyone seeing him coming down
the stretch at speed might well believe he
saw ghost. When running, in spite Of
his bowed, misshapen figure, Hazael
travels with such an evenness of gait,
and such ease and grace OF motion,
that he almost seems to get over the
ground without any movement at all. Yet,
when he slows down to walk, he moves with
great labor and only moderate speed. Hazael
is nearly forty years old, long past the prime
of strl Myth, and has probably led life very
different from what would be marked out as
the best for a man to preserve his vitality to
the fullest extent. He is a sufferer from her
MIA and is poor walker; and, judging from
his previous performances, it is not at all
likely that his digestion is of remarkable
strength, or that he is gifted with such won
derful powers Of recuperstion as was the case
with Weston. Yet, such as he ia, he has
shown his ability to go not far from $50
miles in 142 hours. His present score may
never be beaten, for the reason that six day
matches may go out of fashion; but it does
not seem improbable that the ideal and phe-
nomenal six-day runner, a healthy youth
with a combination of the best of endurance,
digestion and gait, would cover nearly, if not
quite 700 miles.