The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-04
FOREIGN SPORTING NEWS.

Wonderful Record at Road Walking
 From London to Brighton--Gossip.
 Road walking still continues to hold popular attention in and around Lon don, and the interest has been intensi- fled tenfold since the advent of the au- tumn weather. Events given by the Surrey Walking club are always pro ductive of something rare, but the one recently from London to Brighton and back revealed the most astounding bit of road tramping ever seen in England, and. incidentally lowered the record by big margin
 A little more than year ago this same club had walk over the same ground, and J. Butler, the present Eng fish walking champion covered the one hundred and four miles of highway in twenty-one hours, thirty-six minutes and twenty-seven seconds, making a new record. He was not among the starters in this last race, but the most notable competitors were H. W. Horton, F. J. Wakefield, H. E. Lang, E. c. Wray, B. H. Neville and E. Ian Pool, all well known enthusiasts of the sport. The start occurred at the Swan and Su- gar Loaf, South Croyden, at 9:22 o'clock on a Friday evening, and Wakefield cut out the pace at moderate speed and reeled off the first twenty and three fourth miles in three hours and fifty two minutes, and the others were not far behind. At the Southam Bottom they ran into a fog, but at the Temper ance Hotel, Coulsden, Wakefield and Horton had some tea and forged ahead for the climb across Merstham Hill. When they reached Muttons Hotel, Wakefield, who felt a bit Jagged, deci- ded to have some soup, and nHorto pressed forward in the lead,
 All through the night the pair begged away over the lonely roads, and at Crawley in the morning Horton had four minute lead on Wakefield, who was moving we'll. At the Brighton Aquari- un1, which was designated as the turn ing point, the usual crowd had collect ed, and Horton struck it at half-pa nine o'clock, just fifteen seconds ahead of Wakefield. The leaders time for the sixty-two and one-fourth miles was twelve hours and eight minutes. Feel ing confident that he could overhaul Horton at any time, Wakefield had light breakfast, while Horton kept go- ing. Pool, Wray and Neville were twenty-five minutes behind the leaders at Brighton. At this point Horton put on full steam and reached the Queens Head at Bolney, seventy-six and one half miles, in fourteen hours and fifty minutes, and passed through Redhill, ninety-four miles, in eighteen hours and twenty-three minutes. we'll ahead of Buffers record at this point, and had lead of two and half miles on Wake field. Nearing Windsor Castle and just a mile from home, Horton showed signs of weakness, but glass of champagne revived him, and he stepped by the fin- ish post in twenty hours, thirty-one minutes and fifty-three seconds, beat ing all previous records. The previous best was twenty-one hours, thirty-six minutes and twenty-seven seconds. Wakefield came strong at the end, his time being twenty hours and fifty-five minutes, and Neville twenty-one hours, thirteen minutes and fifty seconds, these two being inside the record figures as well. Five of the starters got the gold medal for doing the journey inside of twenty-four hours. Horton and Wake field belong to the Herne Hill Harriers.