Running Recollections and How to Train

80 would have to go on, and we would see about the stake afterwards. The race was run, and 1 got home by about a foot in 22 l-5sec. The gate money amounted to nearly £100, ofwhich my share cameto £29. Shortly afterwards Keaue and I signed articles to run 200 yards, Keane to have two-and-a-half yards inside the distance, for £50 a side. This race took place on the Roch­ dale track, round two corners, on October 22nd, 1898,and I again proved successful, my time being returned at sound 20sec. Although I started at four to one, and thereby created abig surprise by winning, I did very badly, finan­ cially, out of this affair, only getting some £30, which included my share ofthe "gate." The day was one of the worst 1 have ever seen, and although it stopped raining just prior to the match,yet we knew the gate was ruined.I was lucky at this time to find a backer in the person of a gentleman from Southport, who supported me to run Bredm 500 yards on level terms, for, £50 a side. Bredin was agreeable, and we decided to run at Barrow-in-F urness, on December 26th. I trained forthis event at Ormskirk, in company with A. Kinnear, the Sheffield handicap winner. It proveda desperate race at Barrow, and Bredin,staying the better, won by a yard-and-a-half in 59sec. dead. I fell heavily on the track athe finish, skinningmy elbow rathei badly; so badly, in fact, that bloodpoisoning set in about a fortnight afterwards. I ran at Edinburghin the NewYear handicaps, but did nothing, my effort at 500 having deprived me, for the time being, of my sprinting powers. Shortly afterwards, having recovered from the blood poisoning, I went into training for the Newcastle Sweep­ stake, which was to come off on February 25th. 1 chose Ormskirk as my training quarters, and my backer sent for