The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1884-08-02
Some Wonderful Feats in Running,
Walking and Jumping.

Walking and Jumping.
The greatest distance ever run in ono
hour is eleven miles, $40 yards, by Deer
foot, at Old Brompton, In 1S63-Deer-
foot's real name and address being l..
Bennett, Catteraugas County, America.
The fastest time in which one mile has
ever been run, on level ground, is
min, 16 l-5 sec., by w. Cummings, Of
Paisley, in 1881, at Preston; but In 1868
w. Lang ran mile over a course
which was partly down Hill in min.
sec. The swittest runner hitherto seen
Is man named Hutchens, formerly
newsboy at Putney Station. He has
not yet been timed accurately for a
standard distance like 100 and 100
yards; but in Sheffield handicap he
covered 1871 yards in III secs.--a per
formance which shows him many yards
better than seven timen at 100 yards,
and even time is the unattained am
bition of the great army OF amateurs.
a hundred yards In seven timen means
100 yards In 10 Secs, or rate aver
aging 10 yards per second. In 1875
K. Buttery, of Sheffield, ran quarter
of q mile in ash secs, and remains un-
beaten to this day. George Hazael has
ran so miles in three seconds less than
six hours and quarter, and he has
also performed the prodigious task of
covering 600 miles in six days "go-as-
you please ia pedestrian Journey in
which the competitors may run or walk
as they prefer.
Now as to walking. AS we all know,
four miles an hour is the ordinary
standard pace for good brisk country
walk. What shall we say, then, to
| eight miles an hour, fair heel and toep
Yet this has been done by w. Perkins,
J. Rabv, Griffin, and other professors
| Of the art Perkins, indeed, has walked
one mile in 6 min. 23 SEGA rate of
| progression nearly approaching 81
miles per hour On the same occasion
he walked two miles in ID min. 20 SECS,
and three in 20 min. AZ SECS, both un-
equalled records. The greatest dis
lance ever walked without taking rest
| is 100 miles 1860 yards, by Peter
Grassland, of Sheffield, and this is a
marvellous instance of endurance, truly;
but it pales before what must rank rs
the greatest pedestrian performance
over recorded, namely, Gales walk Of
$500 miles in 1000 consecutive hours,
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start walking mt the commencement of
each hour. This arduous undertaking
was successfully carried out during The
months of August, Septmber and 90
tober, 1877. For six long weeks, In
every single hour, had this indomitable
little pedestrian TO journey mile and
half; and one imagines rather
one can try to imagine how he man
aged to sleep. We saw him finish that
gigantic task. In the last mile and a
half but one he seemed unable to move
slow, sore, jaded, utterly done up.
In tho last peregrlnation marvellous
change came over the scene -he went
along at racing pace, attendants, mad
with the enthusiasm of the moment,
positively having TO run TO keep up with
him the plucky little fellow seemed
imbued with new lease Of life. Gale
was about forty-flve years of age, and
about five feet four inches in height.
So long ago as 1909 the celebrated
Captain Barclay performed the feat OF
walking 1000 miles In 1000 consecu-
tive hours; and, although innumerable
attempts, genuine and otherwise, have
been made to equal his record, 1t re.
manned mistaken till Gale SO easily
surpassed it.
With regard to jumping, profcs.
SIGNALS have been In the habit of using
dumb bells and other other contrivances
in their competition; while amateurs,
who patronize the sport far more than
their rivals, have always jumped without
any artificial aid The records amongth the
latter are both held by the same athlete
p, DAWN, of Carrick- n-Suir, IRELAND
who has cleared feet ~ inches high
,, and 20 feet inches wide, both at lOca
athletic gatherings. Thus both these
feats are to the credit of the Green Isle
But the English records are within .
shade III each case; and M. j. Brooks
, who in 1865 won the Inter Versity
. high jump with feet u inches, is sale
to have cleared an inch more in prac
, tlce. John Howard. Bradford pro
fessional, who died quite recently, more
than once cleared a full-size billiard
table lengthways-a feat requiring
courage as we'll as ability; and on onG
.. occasion, on Chester race course, ht
|, jumped the enormous distance Of 2!
feet 7 inches. He took off from
wedge shaped block Of wood raiseC
four Inches from the ground and car
J ried five pound dumb-bcll in eacl
hand, In pole Jumping -prettiest o
all athletic past-times-th great helgh
of IL feet Al inches has been cleared b.
, the present amateur champion, L. Ray
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