The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-11-07
WESTON Ell PSES
M0DtRN ATHLETES
veteran Walkers Record o. Forty Years
a champioa Far outshinss Athletic
nsross q Today.

You talk about your Ahru0hs, ehefi
lAiis, Sheppafds. liillmans, and a few
mofe, bat ihe nnelt athlete b the world
aday l. Edward rayson Weston. the
hale and hearty Old walker, who slafia
from AndoYcf, Conn, ihls morning 60
resume bis Portland. Ne. rChigago Jour
ney afoot IN twcniys days. says the
New York Glohe. The wonder az Yves
tons walk Il the length Of time that
he has been good" Can anyone mag
Inc Martin sheridan throwing the dlseus
Ia efeditahle style In lail, Or Melvin
Sheppard going through a two minute
balf'milt forty years bsnfei And set
It i recorded that Weston walked from
ildston. Mass. % Washington, d. q,
during 1861, IN soe houTs, A few weeks
shorty Of forty Aefen years ago, and
alil in the ring doing bis hne work
What athlete Ia the worlds history can
match such 4 record a. thisi
Noston's wonderful record may be
attributed 10 thel re he has led. Out.
door exercise. coupled with absolute alb
silence from tolacco and liquor have
Kept him young and fuil Of viguf even
az the good old age Of three score and
nine. The feat he II performing from
day 20 day now i a wonderful achieve
ment, even fer 4 young athlete. and the
chances are Weston would make mon.
KEYS out Of the champion long distance
runners Of today IN . Portland.C Chicago
contest. Tom fongboaf. who "eaved IN
while trying 10 run forty miles the other
day, would prove easy picking for Wes'
ton in a i,000.mlls race, and tho same
applies 20 Sherring. Che Athenlan Mara.
thon victor, and Others Of that class.
The young runners would no doubt start
ofi bravely and ired he veteran for
few hundYed miles. hut IN the end be
would wear them down and win out
handily.
Reports from the towns Weston Is
passing show that forty yeafa have not
lullcd his speed = particle. lie has the
same maehlne.like gait that won him
fame years ago, aud there j. not the
slightest falteT IN the mad pace he sets.
on Saturday night he pulled into An
dover, Conn. more than thirty.three
miles ahead Of the record he made on
tne long walk forty years ago.
Neston's greatest walking feat was
in England during Che winter Of 1881,
when he walked my miles day for
100 days, emitting sundays In October,
1898. Weston walked 100 miles In y
hours 10 minutes and 10 seconds. In
the same year he walked 1850 miles
over snow.elad roads 10 thirty days.
Twenty-Five yeats later in 1881. Mr..
Weston met friend who remarked that
be thought the veteran was getting old.
This started the setran 20 thinking
This started Weston 20 thinking, and
lust 20 dispfove the slur he got out and
walked from Bowling Green, New York,
10 the state capitol at Albany In sixty
hours. The distance Is 100 miles. An
other great feat credited 70 Weston i
500 miles In less than il2 hours. This
walk vas made Va England, and won
Weston the famous Ashley belt, which
he holds today The feat he accom-.
plished last year OF walking from Phila-
dolphia to New York IN % hours with
only thirty minutes lepose, is fresh IN
everybody's mind.
Like all lougdistanee men. Weston
suffers most Of all from foot trouble,
Zach night when be hslts his feet are
in bad condition from The fifty mile
iaunt. As the journey lengthens this
condition grows worse. until to the ordi
nary man Il Is excrucinting agony to
put on or remove the shoes, but Weston
Is man Of iron, and only walks the
harder when bis feet hurt him the
worst. II he succeeds In equalling the
Portland Chicago record Of forty years
aoo-l .234 miles IN twenty4six days
Weston will indeed be hailed as the great.
est athlete in al the world.