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Jacob Terry writes as follows in reference to the six days' walking match recently held at New York :— The six-day walking match in New York resulted in the break-down of llowell on the fourth day, he having been pushed the first day, in which he made 150 miles. Tho strain was too great to be kept up, and he retired. Hazael, another Englishman, _ won with a record of 600 miles and one lap inside of time, 'and received nearly 19,000d01. gate-money and stakes, the balance being distributed in a de-" "' scending scale. Rowell got nothing, Pedestrianisra still pays,
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Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 20
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99UNKNOWN Otago Witness, Issue 1586, 15 April 1882, Page 20
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