Athletics and Football (extract)

13° ATHLETICS perfectly upright, but with a very short niggling stride. Williams and Farnworth disputed the lead for nearly fivme iles, when Chambers, who was well in the rear, begatno gain. Half a mile fromhome Chambers caught the leaders, and the three began to racetogether. At the end of the last lap but one Williams retired, findinghimself unable ketoep pace withe others, aFnadrnworth and Chambers began to have a ' ding dong' ra'cAet. the last corner,' says our reporter',the two were level th: e shouts were tremendous ; each of the two became very suspicious in their style {sic) ; neck and neck they came down the straight, Farnworth winning by a foot.' Eye­ witnesses have declared that thsteyle of both firstand second men was by no meansuspicious, being an open undisguised run for the laslat p anda half,and thaift the judges had been up to their work both would have been disqualified, and Williams, who was walking fairly, would have become champion of the year. After this year wheear nothing moof rewalkers from thUeniversities, and fromthat day ttohis ist a curious fact that no walkerof any merit whatevhears appeareodn the path froOmxford Coarmbridge. Indeed, some ten years ago walking rawcerse droppeodut of the programmaet both the Universities, owing to the paucity and inferiority of the per­ formers, and, we believe, the only walking race in which undergraduates now figure is that for the valuable silver cup given yearly by Sir Edward Joddrell, Bart., to the students of Queen's College, Oxford. This prize usually brings out a performer who can do his three miles weilnlside half an hour, atnhde utmost that cabne saidfor theperformers is that they awllalk with stricfat irness if not with speed. It appears that tahte Universities no competition which does ngoitve the athlete chaance of winning his 'blue' will be followed with much zest. About tihmee thCathambers retired from the path, some new walkers began to appearon the scene in the metropolis, the beostf these beiWngalter Rye, S. P. Smith, and T. Griffith. All of these wetarell men. Smithho,wever, being tthaellest of