The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-17
1ANs. SUPERIORITY.
Ne Othsr Animal Matehss HIm m PSySical
Endurance.
From tie Grand Magazine,

D From tie Grand Magazine,
In q short distance race-anything up TO
sixty or seventy miles between q man ana
q horse the man would certainly he van
auished. But a. the distance increased the
mans chances would become greater. Mans
running record for sixty miles 10 7 hours 30
minutes 81 ~secoDds-a record which a good
horse could beat. But how many horses
would equal mans running record for 100
miles. viz. ~ hours 20 minutes 30 secondsP
And supposing q horse were found capable
Of accomplishing this feat. could such an
animal continue moving, AZ the man DID. tH
he had covered $50 miles in 20 hours 70 min"
utes IS ec0nd
Nor did this particular man. Charles Rowen
Of Cambridge cease work even At 100 miles.
On the contrary. he put up q record OF $50
miles In 70 hours 20 minutes rs seconds. More
than one horse. I imagine. would have been
needed to cover such q distance In such Q
time.
Yet Rowell's feat by no means represents
the limit Of this particular form OF human
endurance. p. Fitzgerald Of New York COW
cred 500 miles in 100 hours IS minutes 70 sec
onds, and George LittlewoOd OF Shefhed
s73. miles in I4l hours 81 m minutes 10 seconds.
where. then. would your horse be in a really
long race?
One Of the greatest diniculties TO he over
come in the performance Of feats AZ this de-
scription In the doing. more or less. without
sleep. In this particularly trying form Of en-
durance a man holds records that no living
creature with the exception Of a salmon or
q goIdnsh-couId ever hope to equal.
In October 1908. Capt. Barclay OF Try made
q match for 900 ~guineas with Mr.. Wedder-
burn Webster to walk 1000 miles In 1000
consecutive hours-one mile In each seps-
rate hour. The start was made on June I,
1900. at Newmarket Heath and the course
was a public road. Capt. Barclay was 20
years old at the time and weighed at the out
set Is stone 4 pounds. The feat was deemed
impossible. but the captain displayed such
pluck and endurance that after q time odds
Of ? to I were laid on his accomplishing II.
Before the finish these odds rose to 100 to I.
The last mile was concluded on July - at 3;31
p. NJ. and the match won.
Can't, Barclays feat, which only q human
being could have accomplished, remained
.uneaualled. in spite OF many attempts to per-
form It. until the appearance on the scene OF
a pedestrian marvel named william Gale, who
In September and October, 1877. walked 1900
miles in 1000 hours. each m lie and q half walk
to be started at the commencement OF the
hour. The pr esent writer saw the finish OF
that gigantic task. Gale, who wac as years
Of age, appeared thoroughly done up. In the
laat walk but one Il seemed ~ II he could never
finish. Then. to every ones smaHement. he
pulled himself tOgether and positively sDrinted
the final Journey. amid the fr antio cheers Of the
onlookers. The two last mentioned achieves
ments have put our -FOUR legged ILlenos COM
pleteIy out OF court; nnt even eney 1S M
Starting on Thursday. May IL 1898. and
BucEieT OF Newport. MonToutksSire, walked
1000 quarter miles in 1910 consecutive periods
OF az minutes each; commencing at the begin
The majority OF animals know how to swim
by Instinct. They have not to acquire the
- -. - . NrAt ARannR ~ M n n
how sTS; a. Tsesbbien they RSs S appeSr for IKE most part,
On land 4 b admitted that man in a short
Hss ~ Sst spn.sss az mT Tssa Sths creature. Whose
natural habitat IL is-A different story has to
be told Dogs WIN vel and lest but r Were Srt
Of : bath. or . hundred yardsr II 4 oomsst TO
e. q asaSrup pssih IN u sfs%t s@s ens SsDt the NIP hip
~ c ssi'; VIII as SO ISf.. NH: SsET. A., Msn, cs Is = GsIl
that fave deserved. If they have not achieved,
Drop . good swimming msn and a dog in
The ,cS S1ss c SvS ,S or IRE nl'e eba lnSs' Of 'n iff.p
The man, beyond q doubt.
him 70 leap a bar waist high be. viii probS-
sIty t :pO e ' IL ISIS u S tst . a. 's sro ,SS:'S E.ISsd
under the bar With his cap on; end then eieatsd
u VARSITY .Hs i t.cS2S pens u : Il fsi ism aS 1soa :: no@ Pr ace
Used the honoFs 70 10 Ireland. NJ. r.
Sweeney has cleared : feet So inches in the
inches in the wide jump-both worlds rec
ords.
Jumping with weights. a. the old time
professionals always used % do, John How
ard Of Brad ford cleared 20 feet ! inches on
the rsceoourse at, Chester on May 9 lssts
He used pound d~urnbbells and took on
from a bloCk Of wood raised 4 inches above
the ground. The distance covered was within
4 feet Of the longest known jump by q horse
the NJ feet Of Chandler on warwick race
course. March ~, ls47. Curiously. Chambers
great leap was made In taking a hurdle,
John Howard also gained fame by Gaping
a full sized billiard table len gthways-a feat
recurring pluck as we'll as leapinE powers.
Jud RinR by the way he cleared Buffers teap
at Rugby, and by the fact that he could do
~ feet wide as well a. over 9 feet high, IL te
probable that Brooks. the 0xonian, would
also have been successful 10 this back rtsking
effort had he eseayed II.
A man-Shrubb-has run ten miles In 50
minutes 40 seconds; another man-Hutchens-
has run 800 yards In 70 seconds: another man
GeoFge-has run q mile In I minutes lax sec
onds. OF all running records this last 4p-
pears most unapproaofable. and II seems
likely ~ stand for q very long time.
Men like Shrub, Bacon and "Deerfoot."
who have covered very cloee on twelve miles
in the hour. could certainly hold their own
with most carriage horeea over a GOOD road;
II the gait chosen were walking instead Of rum
ming, the ouadruped would be badly worsted.