GREAT WALKING MATCH.

Press, Volume XXVI, Issue 3391, 17 July 1876, Page 3

GREAT WALKING MATCH.

The London correepoudent of the Aβ* enpplica the following account of thie match:—Weston'e claim to bo ranked first! of living pedestrians has been challenged ia a manner very creditable to Britieh SoW and pluck. Out of a vast number of walk. ing men wboee ambition impelled them to enter a contest against the American's time! fourteen compctitore of proved capaSt* were chosen by the promoters of a Sine Engheh match; and at nine o'clock on f.IM V Sh \' Bth Ma * theße men «tertS to walk for twenty.four hoars on a newly aid cmder path, seven laps of which, round the inner area of the Agricultural Hall. exactly a mile. Weston's perfoYmanS it will bo remembered, was l£) twenty-four hours, he having started with the purpose o« doing 115. Ont of the fourteen English pedestrians who attempted to beat this grand effort of strength speed, and endurance, three have euoceeded j and one of these three has surpassed the Ameri* I can athlete's great feat by so immense a distance that ho will undoubtedly be looked upon for the moment as a wondor and a paragon. This disciple of " Walking Stewart " is named Vaaghan ; be is in hie twenty ninth year, be comee from Chester, and he ie said to be an amateur. By a quarter to nine o'clock last night he had covered, iince nine on the previous evening. 120 miles. Not only has this never been done before, but, as the crowd of sporting men who looked on and cheered at the finish were generally agreed in , declaring, it had never been dreamt of. Weston had been invited to contend, and it had been made a contingent of his assenting to the proposal that the prizes should be doubled. But ho did not respond favorably; and was not present, we are told, at any time of the match. At a few minutes be/ore four o'clock on the evening of the 7fch May, or, to speak exactly, 18h Slmin 35sec, he had performed the distance which is authentically said to have been done by O'Leary, in America, in lRh 53min 40eec, the fastest walk of a huudrod mile* that had ever been chronicled. Vaughan's completion of this distance was hailed with immense cheering from all parts of the orowded hall. Just: after six o'clock Vaughan surpassed Wf ston'a twenty-four hours' distance (109- milea $ furlongs 172 yards), having nearly three hours in hand. On the fact being made known, such a burst of applause filled the great spare of heated and dusty atmosphere that the mueic of a band stationed on the centre platform was reudered quite inaudible. Capital performances were those also of Howse and Crossland, the former of whom finished his 100 miles in nineteen hours forty-three minutes and one second, and the latter in twenty-four hours forty-two minutes. At three minutes before seven—that is, with two good hours before him— Howae had beaten Weston's distance; and at five minutes to eight Crosaland had accomplished the same great feat. By 'eighit o'clock the throng inside the hall' waa very great, and many hundreds were loitering outside the doors. Vaugban, rlowse and Croealand were repeatedly cheered to the echo. Newman, en old pedestrian, was walking steadily and well. He took long rests ; and when on the track kept a great pnee, always unattended, and never once ceasing to smile in a very cheery aud satisfied manner. Though all doubt as to the result had long been over, the excitement among the spectators increased every minute. At eight minutes past eight Vnughan haviog put on a great spnrt, came striding firmly along, and was passing thetable where the judges sat, when he staggered and was caught by two of them, and prevented from sinking to the ground, lie hod then done 119 miles and five laps, and the sodden failure of his powers showed too plainly that he had overtaxed them to a cruel extent. He was borne off on the back of an attendant, and when, after an interval of twelve he came on the track again, his lithe, sinewy form was enveloped in a loose coat. He had determined, it appeared, to walk the twosevenths of a mile in order to complete the score over a hundred. At a painfully slow pace, and with labored steps, he crawled rather than walked one lap and twenty-five yards, end then again stopped from sheet prostration. This time be was carried to his room by four men; bat he emerged onoemore in a dreadfully feeble state from biaretirement, and literally hobbled and staggered round the hall, finishing the ejventh lap, and with it the 120 th amid a deafening roar. It wanted now" fifteen minutes of nine o'clock, and there was still a quarter of an hour to bo need by the other competitors before pistol-shot. Howse was in a state more deplorable even than that of Vaugban, though the smaller man Showed his distress in a lesa fitful manner. The two or three attendant* who walked with Howse fanned him continually, or his failing steps would have yielded altogether. As it was they were ready to catch him if he fainted £. but he kept up, deaf, as it seemed, to the thunders of applause, and wholly insensibleto everything but the bull-dog determination not to give in. When the pistol was fired,. at nine o'clock, Howse had covered the distance of 116 miles five and three-quarter laps and 200 yards, or very nearly 117 miles, in the twenty-four hours. Crossland, who bad walked mngoificently, no sooner heard the pistol shot than he seized a hat and began to band it round. Hβ had done IIS miles and six laps less fifty yards. Thus Vaughan, Howee, and Orossland all did far better than Weston for the space of a nighfe and a day. Newman walked 101 miles and, five laps less fifty yards, and will certaioljr not be allowed to go unrewarded. The flrafr prize ie the enra in money of £100, tha> second £10, and the third £7 10e. In addition £10 was promised to head a subscription for the man or men beating Weston a distance in the time, and a further prize wee Ito have been given to any man completing the task in tweuty.five hours. Aβ there Waa no chance of Newman's doing this, of course* the match was over at nine o'c'ock.

The Belle Alliance Plats at Berlin (cays ea English exchange) is to be adorned in the spring with four marble groups, repreeen ing ' the victors in the glorious battle after which the square ia named* la P.useia the battle of Waterloo goes by the name of Belle Alliance. Those vietore arc England, Prussia* the Netherlands, and Hanover. The four groups were designed thirty "fire years ago, bat partly through the death of the artist charged with their execution* Herr Fiecheiy partly through other causes, the ercotion has beea delayed. The four pedestals, measuring each 6ft in height, and executed in grey Silesia granite, bare been lying ready for thirty five yaara unpolished. They are now to be polished. Two of the groaps, thoee representing England and the Netherlands, were modelled in gypsum by Herr Fischer a long time ago, after which be died. They measure- Tffc in height. England is represented with a pastber as her guardian beast* the lion being in this instance allotted ta the Netherlands. The remaining two groojXK were modelled: by Herr Walger. All «e«ovt beiag executed in marble by Herr Frees, a well known ecolptor. The groups *iU b« anally placed in the square probably So May, when an Innuguratiop ceremony i/ cxpecte* \to take place. • .. , -_ E ~ , ' f ' '~p

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