Running Recollections and How to Train

127 excitement, both men running as though for a, Kingdom. The subject of these lines performed so brilliantly, that at the finish he came home practically alone, in the very fine time of 4mms. IGfsecs. ;W. G. George's world's record time being 4mins. 12|secs. This performance proved to be no flash in the pan on his part, forin the secondmatch, a very short time afterwards (May 21st), over two miles, he finished, going easily, in 9min. 19secs., and many experts were of opinion, that had he been " pushed "at all, the two miles record heldsince 1863, by old Bill Lang, would have been beaten. These perform­ ances, of course, established him as undisputed champion at these distances, and Bacon was so satisfied that he had at last met abetter man than himself,that he paid forfeit for the third match atthree miles. Tincler thus became, in the course of a couple of weeks, the World's Champion atone, two, and three miles,and one may here remark, that it will require a "great "man to depose him from his position. His next important match was at half-mile, when he challenged E. C. Bredin, the long standing half-mile champion of the world, to a match to be run on the 18th February, 1899, and great was the excitement on that eventful day, each man knowing that every effort must be put forth, if victory was to result. Both men stripped as fit as the proverbial " Fiddle," and got away to a good start. Tincler commenced making the running, having at one stage as much asseven yards inhand ; butBredin, who is one of the finest judges of pace in the world, then began to close up the gap,and in a magnificent finish won, amidst a tremendous scene of excitement, by quarter-of-a-yard, time being Imin. 564secs. This timehas been beaten by nearly two seconds, but, asthe race was run during the cold month of February, and not by any means under the most