Running Recollections and How to Train

I managed to get third in the " 150 handicap open." My prize was, of all things, aspirit flask, hardly a suitable sort of prize for a boy of 14 ! The next year I was taken away from Portsmouth on account of my house-master leaving the school, and was then sent to the Institution at Edinburgh. Here 1 ran at the school sports, which I don't think I would have missed for a pension. That Iwas still of very small stature will he readily understood when I mention that I won the hurdle race for boys under 5ft. That was the only prize I ever won over the sticks, eitherat school or elsewhere. It must not be imagined that foot running was the onlysport that engrossedmy attention at school. While at school in Edinburgh I was an ardent and active supporter of the football clubs of both schools, and at Portsmouth Iwas the smallest boy in the third eleven (football), and I even played for the third eleven at cricket upon one occasion. This was at Hyde, in the Isle of Wight, playing against the Isle ofWight College,when I fielded long-stop. My school days terminated with my exam, in 1889 for the post of an Engineer student in the Navy, when, I regret to say, I was most ignominiously "ploughed."