The Pedestrian's Record

4° the pedestrian's record. time have won half-mile races. F. T. Elborough was amateur champion of England for the quarter in 1875, 1876, and 1877, and he also took first honours in 1876 and 1877 for the half-mile. Such a man is an exception to the general rule. The sprinter is rarely good at running beyond the quarter, and the traveller over this distance is at sea in a sprint ; this difference between the two is due to ana­ tomical arrangement; muscles adapted for very rapid and continuous speed in the one do not exist in the same proportion or direction as in the other. From this an outsider would imagine that the well-built and strong man was able to travel long distances. Such, however, is not the case; the strongest and best-formed are usually the men who run well over sprint tracks. C. G. Wood, F. T. Ritchie, J. M. Cowie, A. Vigne, and Harry Hutchens, the professional, are illustrations of this fact ; the distance runners, on the other hand, are constantly spare men. W. G. George is tall and slender in comparison with the sprinters abovemen­ tioned ; and others, such as W. H. Coad, J. E. Dixon, the 50-mile amateur champion, E. C. Carter, and Jack White, the professional, one of the finest runners of the past, who owns the 5, 6, and 7 miles records of the world, do not put in Herculean appearances, but they have all on the day of trial shown that they possess strength andendurance, which is not common to the sprinter. This seeming- contradiction is easily explained, whenwe take into consideration the difference of the arenas upon which