The 100-UP Exercise

INTRODlJCTION 23 he let himself go a bit, gradually lengthening his stride and creeping up to Cummings until he had reduced the latter's lead to a yard. Meanwhile the spectators had become almost frantic with excitement, and the waving and houting were almost deafening. Rounding the first corner of the top traight, George drew level, and then lowly- very lowly- got ahead of him. Turning into the home straight, both men running the race of their lives, George gradually increased his lead until about 2 yards ahead, when, some 60 yards from home, Cummings collapsed and fell in a heap on the grass by the ide of the track, a fact of which George was made aware only after passing the tape. Time 4 minutes 12! seco11ds.- The record for the mile, which has stood unbeaten and unequalled to the pre ent day. [X. S. Tabor ran a paced mile at Cambridge, Mass, ·u.. A., in 1915 in 4 minutes 12.~ second . This record has not been accepted by International Record Committee, George ran a mile at the Surbiton Track under the same conditions as Tabor' Record in 1886 in 4 minutes 10.~ seconds.] As a spectator ha written: "Everyone remained in their places, and a peculiar ilence came over the crowd as it waited for the time to be displayed on the board ; then what a roar went up. uch a roar a thrills me even now a I write this. It was stupendous, and the seen that immediately after– wards ensued was omething never to be forgotten, as the thousands broke loose from every quarter, and rushed madly acros the ground towards the