Athletics and Football (extract)

WALKING AND WALKERS 123 run in a walking race without being discovered and disquali­ fied? The question is a pertinent one and requires careful answering,but the real solution of the mysteryis in our opinion this—that athletes, professional and amateur, have never yet Walking race. arrived at a satisfactorydefinition, founded on a rational basis, of what fair walkingis. Westhall, writing in 1862 and speaking of professional pedestrians especially,says the unsatisfactorystate of walking