Running Recollections and How to Train

71 one has only a certain time inwhich to get tit. In spite of this indisposition, however, I was able to turn out in the Sheffield Shrovetide Handicap, for which Mr. Shanklahd had entered A. Kinnear, of Newcastle. I ran a couple of trials with Kinnear, the day before we left Edinburgh for Sheffield, and he beat me by half-a-yard each time. The handicap didnot look a good thing on paper for either of us, but where money is, money is to be had. We both won our heats, but, while Kinnear got nicely home in the second round, putting down the favourite, 1 "broke down" just as I was getting nicely to the men. The breakdown, this time, occurred to the ball of my right foot, and so painful and swollen did it become, that we had to send fora doctor. That worthy pronounced it gout, and gave me some stuff wherewith to rub it, us well as a mixture for internal use. Kinnear won the handicap, andas I. got about £17out of the handicap 1 did not do so badly, though 1 would have forfeited three timesthat amount to have been spared the misfortune which had befallen me. 1 had decided to finish my training at Mr. Cairns' Red Cross Hotel, Skerton, and Duckworth and 1 landed there at four o'clock on the morning after the final of the Sheffield Handicap, both in doleful dumps. The following morning we set to work to doctor the sprained toeas well as we could, but, in spite of hot water applications, rubbing, etc., we were finally compelled to resign all hope of running on the 5th. Accordingly, onthe Thursday,nine daysbefore I was to run Bredin, I despatched three telegrams, oneto Mr. Sharpe, the manager for the match,asking him to make arrangements for postponement, one to Bredin, telling him I was unable to run, and one to the Sporting Chronicle, asking them to publish the fact abroad. Xow, I should