The 100-UP Exercise

20 THE "100-UP" EXERCISE him came from the tips of Cummings' fingers, it being a favourite trick of his thus to worry the man just in front of him. \Vhen Cummings stopped, the shouts of the crowd drew George' attention to the state of affirs, and he slackened to a walk. Then Cummings started again, but George pushed home, which he reached in 4 minute 20 z seconds. George himself is of opinion that had Cummings kept going that day, he (George) would have made better time then than later when he put up hi hitherto unbeaten world's mile record of 4 minute 12J econds. A Disappointing Contest. The -1-miles race took place a fortnight later at the Powderhall Grounds, Edinburgh. It was raining in torrents, and the wind was like a hurricane; but a there were some 12,000 people pre ent, postponement was out of the question. George won the to , and, taking into account the weather conditions, decided to make a waiting race of it. But Cummings had formulated the same plan, and would not go to the front, though George slackened his pace almost to a crawl for the first 1 ! to 2 miles ; the crowd becoming re tive and then irritated, jeering the runners, until George, di regarding risks, let himself go and tried to get away. But Cummings, who had been heltering himself under the lee of his bigger opponent, hung on until about i of a mile from home, when he shot forward on the outside, and sprinting for