Running Recollections and How to Train

128 favourable conditions, the racemust rank as one of the finest half-miles ever witnessed. Tincler next assayed to give Watkins 80 yards in two miles, on March 11th, but found the task much more than he bargained for. The Coventry runner, who had been going " great guns,"and was, at the time, coming forward by leaps and bounds in the estimate of the public, simply won as he liked, Tincler being compelled to retire nearly half-a-mile fromhome. In addition to the foregoing performances, Tincler has been very successful in America, wherehe holds the one and twomiles' championship, and where, in 1897, he won 35 out of the 36races he competedfor. In 1898, he ran six races, and won them all, and this season, he has been again wonderfully successful, winning almost every event in which he competed. Perhaps, no English winner is more popular inAmerica, than Tincler. He has not yet attempted anything in the way of business orprofession, other than his running, and thinks hewill be tit for most men from a mark at his own distances, forsome time to comc. At the moment, he is very anxious to " try a throw," as the wrestlers say, with Cullum, the new half-mile champion, at that distance, or with Watkins athree miles, or will concede the latter 20 yards' start at two miles.