The Pedestrian's Record

the pedestrian's record. 17 uniting the athletic forces. But in horse-racing such division does not occur ; the patrician and theplebeian meet on equal ground : when the one races a horse against the other, both are subject to the same laws, enacted by the Jockey Club, and presided over by some of the truest sportsmen of the day. This body is supreme over the interests of the turf; it can punish offending jockeys, and can bring owners to task if they infringe its rules, and every detail of manage­ ment passes under its Argus eyes, causing the turf to be no longer, as it was some years ago, a public scandal, but a healthy institution. Could not the A. A. A. form a club similar to the Jockey Club to rule running men ? The cinder-path is now, like the turf, an institution ; but the amateur must notrun against the professional, and consequently we cannot with any degree of certainty test the superiority of a man belonging to one class against an individual associated with the other ; consequently the best man in the professional section may be only second fiddle to the best amateur, and vice versa. This is unsatis­ factory, for a sport purely national should support both amateur and professional in bringing out the best man ; by such means it would soon be known what we possessed in the matter of records. At present we only knowpublicly from the clock that HarryHutchens could give J. M.Cowie six yards start in 120, and beat him ; and again the professional watch seems to possess a different mechanism to the amateur's horseguard miniature : the times are disputed, and records are c