The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1910-01-14
TODA Y'S SPORTING NEWS
Marvellous Weston, " Years Young, To Try Again
Seeks to Walk From Coast to Coast in 100 DAVIS
BY Tip Wright.

Los ANGELES, Jan. IL
You can't beat Edward Payson
Weston-not with a club. Here
he is. almost IL, calmly announc-
ing his intention to hike back
over the old trail to New York.
Now, SO men out of 100 who
managed to come within thin
hair of great purpose, congrat-
ulate themselves upon their sue
cess. They are content to let well
enough alone. For them enough
is sufficient.
But no so Weston. Although
he walked from New York to San
Francisco in los days-he set out
to accomplish the feat in 100 days,
you remember-and the world
hailed him as the physical marvel
of the age, he was not satisfied.
To him the storms which retard-
ed him, made his 4300-mile walk
dismal failure. So with the old
spirit up and fighting, the gallant
little gentleman with pink cheeks
and elastic step, is going to drill
back over his old route, deter
mined to win.
Weston's ambition is marvellous.
Nothing daunts him. The stupen-
dous task he looks upon as so
many days work. To see 1t ac-
complished is the reward he looks
forward to.
So, STRAIGHTFORWARD, jaunty, his
|twinkling Irish blue eyes shining
with the joy of right living, Ed
ward Payson Weston will, IL moth
ing unlocked for prevents, start
forth upon his jaunt at D. m
Feb. /, from this city, with the
eastern edge of the continent his
destination.
It's to be an ocean-to-ocean
walk in reality, so Weston will
head west upon leaving here for
Santa Monica, upon the coast
Then he will turn his back upon
the sinking sun. and like honey
bee lay his course for Broadway
When he starts Weston will be
III, but upon March 10 will enter
his seventy-seeond year. Hi!
selected course is to be known a!
the southern route" over the
roadbed of the Santa Fe. The al
lotted 100 days will end MAJ
%, at which time Weston assures
everyone he will be standing up
on the city hall steps in little ole
New York. bowIng to the cheers O.
the thousands who greet him.
| Weston looks thinner and NOR,
delicate than he did when first
met him, upon the occasion of hi
successful attempt to break hi
Portland-Chicago record. But h,
still has that unbreakable will
which has carried him over 81
many apparently insurmountabl,
difficulties. He won't admit tn,
possibility of defeat. Hesdoes no
believe age has called upon hi
vitality until he can no longe
combat nature to a successful ter
limitation.
| And If Weston is frail looking
This is the slenderness of the thor
loughbred. The kind we find il
the small-limbed. deep chested
Istraight backed equine blu
bloods, with powerful driving mus
cles and whinrgEd sinews. TIL,
sort that stons wh en- ssomethin,
breaks, not before. And inside o
all, is the great heart, whose ev
ery pulsation drives onward witt
splendid courage.
A marvellous stomach Is one o
lWeston's endurance secrets. Hav
ing lived in the open. exercising
regularly, his stomach digest
whatever he asks 1t to and he eat
heartily. His one hobby b tina
lold boarding house favorite
lprunes.
| Weston doesn't train for his un
heard of performances. He live
so he can start upon moment
notice. He does not touch stimu
lants. His legs are as soft as
baby's. There isn't hard or
knotty muscle in his makeup afte
his walks.