Girl's Great Walk.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14211, 28 May 1910, Page 4 (Supplement)

Girl's Great Walk.

HYSTERICAL COLLAPSE. NE"\Y YOIIK, April 9. A young American fiuciciy r-.n. who started out to walk IUU milts for a i ager of i'-10, collapsed in hysterics on Friday, after covering just, over sixtysix miles. The heroine of this great feat is Mis=; Eleanor Scars, ous ot the List-known sports-women in the United States, an expert rider and driver, goiter, swimmer, and lawn tennis player, and a varm personal Bestonian i'rkud of ills -Yichoia.s Longwortii, Culunel Kcoaovelt's daughter. She was recently discussing the fent of a doctor named M'Er.cry. who had walked from Bv.riiimamo to Deltnoine, 10S miles in thirty-s; ver hou

warmly resented the idea that the men should he given all the credit for everything, and she offered t-o bet a couple of Cslifornian friends that she could walk the distance in rifty-fivo hours. She added the caustic comment: "Most society men nowadays are mollycoddles, anyhow." Miss S:-ars entered noon her groat undertaking at six o'clock en Thursday morning. Clad in an Eton jar-hot. white duck skirt, tourist cap. and solid shoes, she started off, n motor taking some elderly friends, food and a change of clothes. Several her, hut at Paloalto, fourteen miles distant which wis reached at 9.1 ">. Mis--. Sears hn'l onlv two rirk her. and an liour later was trudging all ale-". T» v eleven at night she had walked fii"f-v-= : K miles. ""-Mis-h lim-Mi'/ r>"d h- .-,„.-;,!. p l.~ walked anoth"' Vi" h r ~-> h-r frien- 1 -- tried to c-oii-- her to shelter in a eotta— till s'inri-". He- voi-~ was 1,i,.1i--M>" , '-d. --id SL--1,..1-„i ns :!■ ~),„ , vn „! f ] f..|!_ Q| u> ny \._ C(l fO" a I.rl-ICB of W»*-nj- o«-J : , v ,..,„rr -an r.,f;-hr.l if and hnn'W] ifc to her. Ir 1 sh-» refund to <-n'-« =f co,„ ~--„ „„j t „ 1:k1:„„ „ rf A. „ f,„, n +,„;, ,„,. „„.., and W-"r,'.'- iw, r *,, r ,v„ ~n i,,,f ~-+.,. everyhorl\- h->d f ■**-■■--d '-t —■>) c! lr > remai'lced '■> a vm-t )1 vr,j,-e. K led t ; 'l f 'h -••"'• "-s r ,-1,.. ( 1. ct, o ' i-.,/| ]?■■"■.. H „,. ; c s+0 „„ :.,.i..„„-7 h"r to •■"?'•- t l -- 1 ' - :-. n -r ~. *_ r-Uo.l a + J:-, i..,i „.i.„., „ :„„ r „„,„ 1, !,,.!., ~.,.v „„•)._,■, t „ C] ,„, i o-i „_4.„„*. (I ,o+. - ..., 0 1,]„ f A „,„ v „ and driven baok to Brrangnnve.