Bredin on Running & Training

100 RUNNING AND TRAINING. runners, and probably this accounts for the poor manner in which the strangers' races have of late years been patronised. Why a man is designated a "pot-hunter " because he wins a few prizes on the cinder-path, and doesn't deserve that term when he rows for prizes at Henley and other regattas; passes his long vacation in competing at lawn-tennis tourna– ments; or, to go further, shoots pigeons at Hurlingham for cups plus coin of the realm, and often migrates for the season to Monte Carlo, where a skilful shot, if lucky, can earn enough money in a few weeks to keep a steady bachelor for a year, is to me an anomaly. Athletic sports, apart from the 'Varsities, take place during the summer, so, concerning the so-termed " pot– hunter," who commences to train early in the spring, and subsequently competes on most Saturday after– noons at various meetings, not, perhaps, only because he may enjoy the racing itself, but often with a view to getting "fit" for the amateur championships early in July ; how the term "pot-hunting" should be elastic enough to cover him I do not know. Personally my view of runners who deserve this reproach are those men who do not try to win when the prizes are of small value, if they are not f1rst-class athletes; and, in respect to the latter, those who refuse to enter at sports unless there is a level race included in the programme, which, virtually speaking, means the gift of a prize. The ordinary crack runner who chose to train for and compete at various well-known meetings through– out the country, one on every Saturday, during five months, and kept an account of the expenses he