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Show The Father uf Pedeet i-IhiiIbiu. Edward Payson Weston is still as. vigorous vig-orous as when ho made his famous 5o0-milo 5o0-milo record in London. Hut it has been years since ho walked for money. Ho was the father of walking contests, arid during his professional career walked in all (tt.OOO miles, lasked him what ho thought of the recent six day contest "I haven't aitendc:'. any of them." he said. "I tried to elevate tiio sport. There is no exercise like walking, and 1 attribute my present health and vipir to the walking I havedone. It is H pity that tlio contests cannot be conducted on tho elevated plane they once were. "As to tho recent records which have been made, you may say this: When I was in tho business a milo was under-bUmkI under-bUmkI to bo 5, "SO feit. Now, apparently, it may bo anything less thati that, .My experience of many years taught me that no man can make anywhere near as many miles the second day ns he does the first. 1 don't care what the records may bo in tho recent contests. I know that on the second day tho muscles of the leg are so contracted that one's stride is four i'u hes shorter. The second is tho worst day of any honest race. One can make uioro the sixth day than iu tuo second." Philadelphia Ledger. |