WM PENTECOST OF NEW ZEALAND AND HENRY BEDFORD OF MELBOURNE.

Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 403, 31 January 1872, Page 3

WM PENTECOST OF NEW ZEALAND AND HENRY BEDFORD OF MELBOURNE.

Five Miles Match 'for £50 a Side

The match between Win. Pentecost, of Zealand, and Henry Bedford, of Melbourne, for LSO a side, came off on Saturday, on the Melbourne Cricket-ground, "and was won very easily by Bedford. : \Be*dfordwas trained by Ledger, who also 'trained him in his matches with Npary ; and Higgins. " The boy ' was in capital ■'condition,' and ran the distance with erise. *PentP'cost was brought out by -Prank Hewitt, bnVwas in anything- but good condition'for a long-distance race. The -match came off about 5 o'clock, in the presence of a large number of spectators, most •of whom, however, took 'free admission to the ground, having 1 rushed one of the ' prates, owing to there being no police. The "4!ve miles whs measured 'to include "16 laps : round the'coUrsp, wii'h 160 yards in addition. Whe"n the pistol was fired, born Jm^n went awify at an -eisy puce for rhe ;; firsr lap, which was increased fhfi second 'time round, Bedford taking ths lead. ; Befo« a mile "bad been done Pentecost '•was y evidently in difficulties, laboring considerably, whilst the boy was going along "very/comfortably. For "seven laps Bedford contented himself with a lead of four or 'five -yards. Tn ihe eighth 'lap he put on n pace, and began to draw away from Penrecbst, who gradually lost distance, 'until in ihe 12ti» lap he- was more than 50 yards, behind, evidently : <^uite beaten. Fie : kept on -pluckily. however, to the finish, falling' more and more in the rear, and when Bpd'ford passed the post "the New -Zeiilandei" was quite 200 yards behind. Pentecost is -a Londoner by birth, but has been from Ms boyhood resident in New "Zealand He is "not an elegant runner by ; anv means, but is strongly built, and when in anyrhing like condition may show to some, advantage, in the form he. appeared on Saturday be was quite unfit to run a five mile race., and it was only throwing money away to match him with -Bedford. Time, 27m. 455.

Challenge to the Australian Colonies— Frame Hewitt \<-;<li H s to say that lie is tired of rioing faolhi ig, and being anxious for a niai.h, will give Mahony or any man ih Australia 10 yards start in a quarter of a mile for a trophy, value L2O, or any snm noteiceeding LIOO : a side. Hewitt hope* this challenge will be accepted, as the getieral opinion is that ijornan can give Mahony the aborenarued start. An answer through ' The Australasian will be promptly attended to.