Running Recollections and How to Train

54 and both went into training immediately. I had a week's rest in Edinburgh, andthen with Jimmy Duckworth hied me South to Ormskirk on the 1st March. Some time previous to this, however, I had signed articles with " Billy " Cross to give him three yards' start in 150 for £50 a side, and to run at West End Grounds, Wigan, onthe 2()th March. Hence 1 hadonly three weeks to get fit, and so without anymore to do I buckled down, and came on so well that mytrial, runthe usual two days before the race, dispelled altdoubts asto my eventually winning. I had a big party of friends from all parts staying at Ormskirk, andthe journeyto Wigan was quite a pilgrimage, though thetales with which we beguiled the journey did not resemble those of Chaucer's heroes. As our party expected, I won very easily, but as I started at four to one on, we literally had to buy money. Considerable interest and excitement were manifested over this race,as Cross was a favourite in Lancashire, and the public were keen to see him run. The time, I may mention, was considerably inside evens, and I think I can dismiss this race with the remark that, owing to the wretched accommodation and arrange­ ments, a considerably larger crowd saw the race free than by paying. Coming back to the Bredin race. I took a run up to Edinburgh after the Cross affair for a couple of days, eventually settling down to work at Ormskirk a good five weeks before the race. Try as I liked, I could not get the distance at any speed. One day I bethought me that exercise upon a punch-ball might supply the much-felt want, and accordingly T had a ball sent from Edinburgh. When one is in training for a distance like 440 yards, onewants to do a lot more work than when training for a sprint. The work, too, must vary,for, if one does nothing butrun, run,