LADY'S LONG WALK.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXVI, Issue 98, 27 May 1910, Page 2

LADY'S LONG WALK.

The New York correspondent of the London 'Daily Telegraph' wrote to that journal on March 'M :—Miss Eleanor Sears, one of the best-known sportswomen in the I'nited States, an expert rider and driver, golfer, swimmer and lawn tennis player, and a warm personal Bostonian friend of Mrs Nicholas l;oiigworth, Colonel Roosevelt's daughter, is walking from Burlingame, California, to Del Monte, a distance of KIS miles. She has a wager of £lO with two girl friends that she will cover the distance in fifty-five hours. Miss Sears is dressed in a jacket of soft materia), witii a wide belt, a short white-duck skirt, a tourist cap, and solidly-soled shoes. All California is excited over the affair, especially as she is credited with saying: ''The men in our set are all molly-coddles." Scores of ladies started with her at dawn yesterday. In three and a quarter hours she had walked fourteen miles, and by noon most of her companions bad dropped out. She was tired and vi-ry footsore, but stoutly declared that she was not going to give in. Miss Seal's went mi walking unti '.Mo this morning before turning in to rest. She had travelled exactly sixtysix miles in twenty hours, and hail reached (Jilroy, when, at the earnest solicitation of Iter friends, she was induced to seek shelter in a roadside cottage. She insisted that she should he eal'ed at sunrise, but when sunrise came her whole body ached to such an extent that she was unable to move. She had to be lifted into a motor car and driven back to Burlingame. Her friends had noticed during the last tun hours that her voice had become highpitched, and that- she was swaying dizzily and was half-hvsterical.