The Pedestrian's Record

i l 8 t h e p e d e s t r i a n ' s r e c o r d . is the duty of all persons connectedwith sport to do all in their power to reduce to a minimum all chances of accident, whether they be active or non-active members of clubs ; in most cases we think they do, but in their arranging quarter-mile heats and finals on one and the sameday theyact antagonistically to the well-being of competitors. The subject is of a too pathological order for demonstration in this place, but it could be easily proved how dangerous it is for a runner to race over two quarters at top speed on one and the same afternoon, and how injuries and diseases have resulted from the effects of races so arranged ; young athletes willrun whenever askedto do so, regardless of consequences, but it is positively cruel for athletic committees to overdose willing horses. Our protest iswritten, we trust, not in vain. Ancient Greece and Rome have handed down to us their history ofmanly prowess, and detailed the importance they attached to athletic exercises, and to how great an extent it assisted them on the day of trial; and in more modern times warriorshave at­ tributed much of their success in the field to the physical development of their cohorts :proving that education of the body is as important a consideration as that of the mind. Sport of any kind makes manhood more forcible; it quickens the senses and increases the faculties of perception, and much that isgood in a man without its aid would lie dormant. Among the varied lists of sport athletics take a prominent position, and, if as