Bredin on Running & Training

q6 RUNNING AND TRAINING. able anticipation, and also, if we mistake not, well m advance of what has been witnessed at any club meeting ever held in the United Kingdom." The day was warm and fine, with no perceptible wind. W. P. Lutyens, then in, I believe, his fourth year at Cambridge, journeyed up to compete in the mile challenge cup race. The Inter-'Varsity Sports, usually held in the early part of the spring, had been post– poned, owing to inclement weather, until June, and Lutyens, though perhaps not quite in his best form, was fairly fit, and was considered to have this race at his mercy. However, H. A. Munro-whose best performance previously was perhaps his second to J. Kibblewhite, in the four-mile championship of '92- took the lead in the early part of the third lap, and striding away from the C. U. A. C. representative, finished alone in 4 mins. 2oj- sees. Downer won his heat in the open 120 yards handicap, from scratch, in 11-g. sees., equalling record, and was only one yard behind the winner in the final, although the time was returned as one-fifth faster. In the 200 yards limited handicap, run in a straight course, he again equalled the record of 19-g. sees., held up to that time by E. H. Pelling. The open half-mile handicap brought out twenty-four competitors, including myself, and on this occasion I ran my fastest half-mile, winning by a yard or so from B. Lawford (who was destined to become the next year's amateur mile champion), on the 6o yards mark, in I min. 55 sees., the first lap taking me 55t sees. to cover. At King's College sports, held at Stamford Bridge, on May 3oth, the committee decided on having a soo