Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM; 64 the first hour, and eight miles and a half ill the second. He had now forty minutes to perform the remaining fivemiles and a half; the whole distance being twenty-three miles. But the weather was so extremely severe as to beat him to a stand-still a mile from the Bricklayers* Arms, when he resigned. On Friday the 4th June 1807, Mr. Stevens undertook to go from the Woolpack at St. Albans, to Finsbury Square,—a distance of twenty-one miles—in three hours, for a bet of four hundred and fifty guineas. He started at a quarter before two o'clock in the morn- ".ig, and arrived at his journey's end by four. He ran in the first hour, seven miles and a half; in the second hour, ten miles; and in the last quarter, threemiles and a half. A matcli for twenty miles was run on the 12th September 1809, on a piece of chosen groundnear Maidenhead, between Mr. Greig and Matthew Mark, for fifty guineas a side, Mark took the lead at the rate of eight miles an hoiir, closely followed by his antagonist. They were equal at ten miles, having per- j formed