Pedestrianism

MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. 77 » accomplish it, yet that distance hafsrequently been performed in less time. Mr. Wallis, a gentleman residing in Jermyn Street, ran two miles in nine minutes, at two starts, in February 1808. And on the 17th of the same month, a mile was performed at one start by Mr. E. Haslern, in four minutes and fifty seconds.—Captain Anning, on the 3d of March 1809, ran a mile in thsaeme time near Hampton, having been matched against a man named Forbes, from Eaton, whom he beat by two hundred yards.—CaptainHewet- son ran two miles on the Uxbridge road, on the 21st of March 1809, at two starts, in three seconds less than . ten minutes, for a bet of fifty guineas.—A mile was performed in four minutes and ten seconds, by John Todd, a Scotchman, in 1803, who ran fromHyde Park corner to the first mile-stone on the Uxbridge road. On the 2d of May 1809, a match took place in Bayswater Fields, between Captain Dacre and Mr. Dawes, for a mile. The bet was twenty guineas onthe contest between them, and