Pedestrianism

I 80 MODERN PEDESTRIANISM. The Hon. Colonel Douglas of the Forfar­ shire militia, is a swift runner. He accom­ plished a mile within five minutes, and has performed shorter distances with great cele­ rity. Curley, better known by the title of the B righton S hepherd , is a swift runner for a shortspace. He ran a mile at four starts in four minutes, on Clapham Common, in Oc­ tober 1807. He wasbeat, however, by Grin- ley the boot-closer. They ran a match, in November 1805, of one hundredand twenty yards, on the walk leading to the gates of KensingtonGarden, whichwas accomplished in twelve secondsand a half, Grinleybeating his antagonist by half a yard. On the 25th of August next year, they again ran one hun­ dred and twenty yards at Hampton Court Green, for a bet of one hundred andtwenty founded on the experience of all swift runners, that " for " the first two or three hundred yards onefeels very much " distressed, but after thata second wind comes, whichlasts " until one is spent with bodily fatigue."— Code Hofealth, vol. ii. p. 100. guineas