Running Recollections and How to Train

27 Halifax." As a matter of fact, I ran at Halifax,in prefer­ ence to Southport, because I was ineligible to compete in the 100 Yards N.C.A.A. Championship, while at the former meeting I stood a good chance to win the 220 Yards Invitation Handicap. I could have got good value at Southport, as the N .C.A.A. medalsare supposed to be worth £5, and one can always realise £4 onthem ! The meanest trick I was ever served in my amateur- professional days was by a certain Lancashire Harriers' Club in 1896. They had a week-day meeting, and sent a representative to get me to run if possible. I was not over keen about turningout, and put my usual blunt question to the ambassador—"What will you give me?" He said that if I left it to his committee I would not be disappointed. I agreed to this, andafter the sports asked the diplomatist when his committee intended to settle with me. He named a place, and promised to be there atten o'clock that evening. He kept his appointment, but informed me that his committee had not reckoned up the gate-money and balanced the expenses. I might expect to hear from him shortly, when he would enclose my share of the "gate." He never wrote, but I met him a few days afterwards, and he informed me that his committee had decided not to give me anything. In other words, they would sooner breaktheir word than alaw of the all-powerfulA.A.A. ! Coidd anyone imagine anything meaner? I had put myself to serious inconvenience torun at avery third-rate meeting, naturally expecting to be paid for it, nstead ofwhich I was considerably out of pocket, after helping to fillthe coffersof a club with which I had nothing whatever to do. There were certain sports at which I was only too glad to run for nothing—such as the London Athletic Club the