Sporting and Athletic Records

334 WALKING SIX DAYS' WALK (14 HOURS A DAY) Time Distance Name Nationality Place Date Days Miles Yds. 1 78 — H. Vaughan (P.) British Agricultural 30 June 1879 Hall, London 2 148 1320 „ „ „ 1 —5 July 1879 3 215 1320 „ „ „ „ 4 285 440 „ „ „ „ 5 346 1320 „ „ „ „ 6 39° — >» >> » .. I.OOO MILES IN 4OO CONSECUTIVE HOURS (1,000 miles in 16 days, 16 hours) Walked by E. P. W ESTON , American Professional, of Providence, U.S.A., at Northumberland Cricket Ground, Newcastle on Tyne, between 7 a.m., on Wednesday, 26 December 1877, and 10.41 p.m., Friday 11 January 1878. W ESTON did not walk on the two Sundays intervening, and rested altogether 150 hours 38 '/a minutes, which gives a net walking time of nearly 250 hours, involving an average walking rate of just upon 4 miles an hour the whole way. 4,000 QUARTER MILES IN 4,000 PERIODS OF TEN MINUTES (Walking */• mile at the beginning and within each period of ten minutes) Performed twice by W ILLIAM G ALE , British Professional; namely at the Canton Hotel Grounds, Cardiff, 28 June to 25 July 1877, and at the Agricultural Hall, London, 21 October to 17 November 1877.