Bredin on Running & Training

140 RUN ING AND TRAINING. Though I am truly sorry they should have shouted them– selves hoarse; and why, oh why, did they attend these sports on a lovely June day armed with umbrellas? Was it because, however bright the morning may be, it is certain to rain during each twenty-four hours in Glasgow? My first meeting with F . S. Horan, the old Cam– bridge long-distance blue, took place at the L. A. C. summer meeting three weeks later. Incidentally we were at \Vellington College together, tea-planting in Ceylon at the same time, and twice were respectively first and second in a British championship. I think Horan's best distance would have been three-quarters of a mile or perhaps one mile ; at any rate, the I min. 55 sees. for half the latter distance in America was relatively a much finer performance than the I4 mins. 44-§- sees., his best on record for the three– mile race attheinter-'Varsity sports of I893· So also, in my opinion, was the yard or two outside I min. 56 sees. for half a mile that he twice showed in this country. On the occasion that I now refer to, a race for the L. A. C. four-furlong challenge cup, Horan took the lead shortly after the pistol cracked, and completed his first lap in 55 sees., at which point I was about six yards behind; catching him in the straight, I won by four yards in I min. s6 sees. I believe w. A. de c. King, at that time a Woolwich cadet, was placed third. I won my heat in the quarter-mile handicap later in the afternoon in so~ sees ., but was beaten in the final by about five yards in 49} sees. \V. C. Kirby, on the thirty-one yards mark, was the winner, and two other men finished in front of me. The first Saturday in July, '94, fell on the 7th of that