The 100-UP Exercise

INTROD TTION 21 all he was worth, he ran clean away, winning ea ily to his own astonishment and to George's disgu t at :finding himself so completely out-manoeuvered. The Ten Miles. On returning to London to complete his training, everything seemed to go wrong with him. He was ill, fainting repeatedly for the first time in his life ; (no less than seven times, two days prior to the match). But, notwithstanding his state of ill-health, he ap– peared on the track, and took the lead at the start, but ran very slowly, taking 5 minutes 21 second for the first mile. Cummings da hed to the front at 11 miles and was never again headed, winning the race in 51 minutes 6~ seconds- a world's record at the time- beating eorge by about 350 yards. It is probable that George ran the be t and game t race of his life on that day, although he was beaten, for he was totally unfit to run. A remarkable feature of the race was that Cumming was very exhau ted at the :finish, and was very ick during the la t lap, while George seemed to improve, and wa nmning much fresher and faster at the fini h than either he or his opponent had run at any previou period of the race. And so ended George's fir t ·eri s of races as a profes ional. He was greatly di ati fied ·with the re ult ; not from a money point of view, but 1 ecause he had been so badly b aten. George now cro sed to America, but it wa ome months before he had completely recover d his health