THE RAYNOR-McCUNE WALKING MATCH.
This walking match, to which reference is made in another" column, is exciting great tnterest as we go to press, and as the time gets shorter the interest will doubtless growstronger. The latest information to hand about the affair is to the effect that fresh, articles of agreement have been drawn up between the men, and will "be read before the contest commences; that the walking track at the Theatre Royal is to be enlarged, so as to obviate as much as possible the jostling and crowding that occurred- on the last occasion; and that, in consilience of the disagreement between the Mte referees and the judge, the services of <tnose gentlemen will not be again called into requisition ; that Mr For der has consented to act as judge, and his sole decision will be accepted : and that Raynor is, up to the time of writing, the most fancied.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 334, 2 May 1885, Page 13
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153THE RAYNOR-McCUNE WALKING MATCH. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 334, 2 May 1885, Page 13
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