Running Recollections and How to Train

CHAITEU IJ. How I TOOK TO RUNNING. SHORTLY after my failure, I went to learn engineering in Glasgow, where 1 was apprenticed to the firm of G. and A. Harvey, engineers and millwrights. Our manager soun impressed upon me the fact that athletic exercises and engineering hadnothing in common. I dare say that is true enough, for I tried to combine the two with disastrous effects—to myengineering career. My friend the manager once told mc that if I put as much energy into my work as I did into my running I would do. He also remarked that he wanted to " instil me with a proper spirit." To begin with, however, I was always a lively kind of youngster—ever ready to take part in any of the impromptu games got up by the men in the meal hours. Football was then, asnow, all the rage amongst the working classes of (Jlasgow. Every meal hour, a few devotees of the sport would be found on a waste piece of ground adjacent to the works, playing a rough-and-tumble game with a ball of a m re or less antediluvian appearance. Tn these said rough-and- tumble games ofootball my speed was first made apparent to other people. One of the men prophesied that if I "stuck in " and trained, I would one day become a champion. The same man put mein the way of becoming a member of the Rangers' FootballClub. The Rangers then had an excellent running track, although, for the benefit of cyclists, it is now banked up out of all recognition. I do not mean this narrative to be merely an account of every race in which I have competed, althoughat the end