The announcement that a young Japanese athlete of Shinghai is to endeavour to run the distance from Nagasaki to Tokio, something in the vicinity of 1,000 miles, is but another example of the lure which Leaving Done the worthies of old, feats of prowess exercise on man.
Samson and all the others, we find the cult ever increasing and extrem ordinary feats are done, Surely it was Barclay of Uno, the most powerful man of his day, who set the record by walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours under the most arduous conditions, and he has had many notable followers along similar lines. The name of Hammond among the moderns comes quickly to mind with his pedestrian feats, these including a walk of 24 hours. in which he did over 131 miles. Our young Japanese friend is: scarcely trying anything so ambit tious as that, as he proposes to take about a month to do his 1,000 miles, which means about 33 milew a day. The strain, however, comes in the doing of it every day, and therein stamina and determination count. Over all kinds of country and in all manner of weather it will not be so easy, even for a man who takes recreation in the form of a run of some 30 miles daily in Hongkew Park.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.