The 100-UP Exercise

INTROffCCTION 25 Birmingham, on October 2nd, three weeks after his ·defeat at Preston in the 4-miles. George took the lead at the start and was never headed, the times being (until the race was stopped .and George was declared the winner) :- 1 mile - 4 2 miles- 9 3 - 14 4 - 19 5 - 25 6 - 30 mm. 45 ecs. 40~ , 40~ ., 51 4~ " 26; ,, 'l'he race was practically over at 3! miles, for ·Cununings had to stop and readjust hi ela tic tocking at about this point, so that George lapped him, and again did so a second time at 6 mile , soon after which Cummings stopped and intimated that he had relin– qui hed the contest. It was a bad ending to a good race, but one of those mi fortune quite unavoidable. And o ended this race with Cummings, and George's active English athletic career. In all he had won nearly £5,000 a a profes ional, out of nine races- ix with Cummings, and three with L. E . Myers. As an amateur, Georg annexed just over 1,000 prizes, totalling a value of £4,000, and during his career estab– lished records at every distance between 660 yards and 12 mile , besides running race from 100 yards up to 15 miles, and competing successfully in cycle race , hurdle and walking race , high jumps, and in sculling, tennis, fi hing and hooting conte t . Finally, in winning a total of twelve English amateur track cham– pionships during his career, he established a record