HUNDRED-MILE RUN
SOUTH AFRICAN FARMER’S RECORD
Prose Association—By Telegraph-Copyright
LONDON, January 8,
(Received January 9, at 9.10 a.m.)
A South African farmer named named Arthur Newton finished a 100mile run from Bath to Hyde Park Corner in 862 min lOsec, an amateur record. He only began running at the age of forty, and since then haa run 43,000 miles.
. Fussy Old Lady (as radio broadcaster sneezes): “There! Now I’m ante I shall catch oold!’-
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Evening Star, Issue 19759, 9 January 1928, Page 6
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74HUNDRED-MILE RUN Evening Star, Issue 19759, 9 January 1928, Page 6
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