Running Recollections and How to Train

107 win, Downer shot away from me, and bowled me out by six or seven yards"; the time was 49 4 sees. Bredin was thus deprived of the honour of the quarter-mile championship. He, however, got his revenge by twice defeating Downer over 500 yards. The memorable race at Barrow on Boxing Day, 1899, was as grand a race as the 440 at Rochdale, on May 1st, 1807, the result,however, being in Bredin'« favour, Downer falling on the tape, beaten by half-a-yard, time being 59 seconds. For the half-mile championship, Bredin met and defeated the great Yankee Kirkpatrick, in 1897, and also defeated G. B. Tincler, 1899, but the race is described else­ where in these pages. He, however, has had to surrender his long held claim and title to the alf-mile championship. For after meeting and being defeated by H. Cullum, the Welsh champion, in a match at 1,000 yards, the latter accepted Bredin's challenge at half-a-mile, and at Rochdale on November 4th, 1899, again won the match, and this time the half-mile championship, but in the miserably slowtime of 2 mins. How this resultcame about, 1 am at aloss to understand, as Bredin had run the distance only three days before on a much slower track, iuthe good time of Imin. 57secs. So, for once in a way, an undisputed,master ofthe art of pace was at fault. The following are Bredin's ideas on training, and they should prove a great help to all tyros, both amateur and professional.