The Pedestrian's Record

io the pedestrian's record. hour. Short courses for bipeds or quadrupeds were never thought of until many years afterwards, and then, as regards horses, more to accommodate young animals whom they began to run as two-year olds, at a time before their tissues were developed, before their frames were able to withstand the effects of the severe strain which long courses, of necessity, imposed upon them. The love of money and the gambling table were the incentives to this iniquity. During the Georgian epoch, men were matched to race irrespec­ tive of their social condition, the patrician raced ^with the plebeian, and this arrangement was productive of good results in proving who was the best man. Noblemen and country squires kept pugilists and matched them—the fighting-ring was then an institu­ tion, and did not decline until it was voted low ; game cocks were constantly pitted to be engaged in deadly combat, to the delight of an aristocratic assembly ; and the footman, the original letter carrier, was en­ gaged in service more for his fleetness of foot than for any other attribute of which he was possessed.The footman represents the firstprofessional that England recognized, and soon, by gradual expansion, running men diverged into two sections, the professional and the amateur, theone running for money, the other for prizes, and this to a certain extent is the difference between them. This separation of athletes was caused in some measure by social considerations, but more particularly by unfair running which had been noticed, and had given a bad name to the track. Owing to