LADY'S LONG WALK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14375, 21 May 1910, Page 2 (Supplement)

LADY'S LONG WALK.

Miss Eleanor Sears, one of the bestknown sportswomen in the United States, an expert rider and driver, golfer, swimmer, and lawn tennis player and a warm . personal Bostonian friend 'of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, Colonel Roosevelt's j' daughter, is walking from Burlingame, California, to Del Monte, a distance of 108 miles. She , { has a wager of £40 with two girl friends • that she will cover the distance in 55 hours. Mies Sears is dressed in a jacket of soft material with a wide belt, a short whiteduck 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 mollycoddles." .Scores of ladies started with her at dawn. \: l ln three hours and a-quarter she had walked 14 miles, and by noon most of her companions had dropped out. She was tired, and very footsore, but stoutly declared that - she was not going to give in. . .■'.-;> Miss Sears went on walking until 2.15 .in the morning before turning into rest. u She had travelled ; exactly 66 miles in 20 hours, and had reached Gilroy, when, at the earnest solicitation of her friends, she v was induced .'to seek : shelter -in a roadside cottage.- She insisted that she should be ■■■■- called 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 two -hours that her voice - had become high-pitched, and that she was v swaying dkzily and was half-hysterical.