El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1910-11-12
Feats OF Endurance
Great Strain Which Human Body Can Stand.

often doing a mile in 10 minutes.
There was a great protest against the
contest, and doctors were on hand to
stop it if the walker showed signs of
collapse. But they always found his
heart. temperature and appetite to be
practically normal Sometimes he
would go to sleep while walking, and
upon one occasion fell to the ground
while asleep. But he always rallied
and started out refreshed after short
slumber.
The Six Day Grinds.
The endurance records of AUTOMOBILE
ing, bicycling and awaiting are too ia.
miliar and too frequently broken TO
need repetition here. The great six-day
grinds in bicycling and automobiling
are about as terrific strains as the hui
man frame can undergo. Long distance
riding records have stood for many
years, despite the much discussed ride
of Roosevelt from Washington to War
renton and return. The longest ride
in the shortest time was made in 1884,
when c. NJ. Anderson of San Francisco
covered 1919 miles in y hours,
changing horses II times a day Wes
tons London performance of 1897 miles
in a thousand consecutive hours and
c. a. Harriman's 121 IA miles without
rest, stand as the walking records of
the world.
One of the most exciting sporting
contests of the present decade was pull
ed off in Alaska last year, in the shape
of a dog team race from Nome to Can
die Creek, a distance Of 412 miles. The
race was won by Albert Bergers No.
1 team, in eighty-two hours, and two
hundredths minutes, having been run
in a temperature of from 10 to 20 de-
g'rees below zero. The prize was the
Suter trophy and a purse of $1,000. 1t
awOke the sporting proclfvities of ev-
cry man, woman and child and
brought forth wagers aggregating
$4,000.
The Theatrical Endurance.
1t is said that upon one occasion
the late Richard Mansfield was wit
Messing great football game between
the two leading teams Of the country.
At one of the climaxes of the game he
turned to a friend and remarked: And
they call that physical endurance"
Anyone who saw him in Peer Gynt, the
play that was so strenuous that even
hist sturdy frame went to pieces in it's
presentation, can understand what he
meant. In that play-an unusually
long one-Mansfield ran the gamut of
human thoughts and feelings, and was
completely exhausted when the play
ended.
There are claimants for long distance
records of every kind. A Washington
man claims to be the worlds cham
pion eater, ready to meet all corners.
a Virginia man asserts that he hold
the record for egg eating, having de-
voured % for a single Easter break
fast. A western milkman claims to
hold the long distance record for milk
ing A man from Utica, New York,
lifted himself on tiptoe 10000 times in
three hours, ana thinks he holds. the
marathon tiptoe record
One must travel in India and places
where superstition reigns to see what
tests of endurance men will undergo
The poor creatures who spend their
whole lives doing penance, prove them
selves able 70 undergo pangs of priva-
ton and physical suffering that are
almost unbelievable. A lifetime spent
on bed of sharpened spikes, years of
lying ton edged swords, and hundreds
| of other means of punishment are
/ inflicted in order to do penance for sin
and make sure of future happiness. To
excel all others in privation and suffer
! ing is the highest aim of these delud-
ed souls and brings to ones mind the
story of the Spartan lad who stole a
! fox and concealed it under his tunic
| allowing it to gnaw out his vitals rath-
/ er than betray his weakness.
Mans Heart Stands Much.
The heart of man seems to excel ev-
/ cry other engine in the world in the
matter of endurance Someone has un-
/ dertaken to estimate the tremendous
/ amount of work it will do in a lifetime
Counting this lifetime as 81 years. ii
! will propel a stream of blood more