Bredin on Running & Training

RUNNING AND TRAINING. and within four or five of Butler, whom I shortly after– wards passed in the back straight and gradually closed on Horan. Three hundred yards from home I hesitated whether or not I should take the lead and run right out, w ith a view of attempting to lower the record, but decided to take matters as easily as possible, bearing in mind the quarter-mile race later on. Eventually I caught Horan near the worsted and won by about three yards in I min. sst sees., Butler occupying third position in I min. 57 ~ sees., eight yards behind the Cambridge repre– sentative. Perhaps the most remarkable incident in connection with this race was the fact that eleven out of the thirteen starters were said to have gained standard medals by beating 2 min. 2 sees. In the Ioo yards championship there were eleven entrants and nine starters, divided into three preliminary heats, the first in each heat and the second in the fastest being entitled to start in the decider. Bradley, the holder since '92, appeared in the first with H. C. \Voodyatt (L.A. C.) and one of the brothers from South Africa, Peter Blignaut; Bradley was away first, and taking matters somewhat easily, won by two yards, Woodyatt finishing just in front of Blignaut. Downer, who had lately been equalling records at various meetings throughout England and Scotland, in the second heat also had an exercise canter; C. R. Thomas, then entered as Reading A. C., defeating H. J. Badeley (0. U. A. C.) by a long yard, time again IO~ sees. Max Wittenberg, a well-known and successful North of England sprinter, but hardly in the same class as Bradley and Downer, won the last heat by a yard. The winner of the lnter-'Varsity sprint, G. Jordan