Show I TALK ABOUT WALKERS HERES HERE'S ONE THAT CAN CANGO CANGO I GO SOME AT 70 YEARS John Callahan almost 70 iO years of ofte age te one o of the thc veterans o of or the civil war and at present t vendor of f t the tho Ap Appeal r peal to na Heason on and Common Sense published b by tho So Socialist alist party claims to he be as great a pedestrian as 15 Weston And Mid in about two 11 months ho will give ri o an exhibition of If rapid rapi heel beel and md toe walking at Chutes park despite his Ids GS us fears rears cars I i I lae began an kin w walking in 1878 1978 and kept it tip for seven H years yearn said aid Mr lr Callahan Callahan Calla Calla- han cser a when asked about hi his walkin walking record Then I dropped it It was in the SOs that I 1 met JIt Ves ton lon at Union hall haU San Francisco It was 3 a six day race and since he lit ba had such a good g record already he gave cave ac me mc mea a R fortymile mile han handicap nut But ho ao mo 1110 too much an and I T heat beat him bini- bini mu much h to thc the surprise of tho thu bi big biff crowd crowll I I would liko like to go o around the thc country country coun coun- try a again nm walking mile five races and my wa way east cast tn to Washington and other cities which ll r I have havo never seen 1 I would woul like to meet Weston in ina ina a race a again ain too Ho He Has Great at Records In In m my meen seven een years cars as liS a pedestrian ia I defeated thirty one men and ono one time up north I t walked anc before an audience of ol 1000 people at the thc San Francisco pa pavilion viti on r I have vo haul had some sonic close c exciting itin con con- teats too I remember tho the time I defeated de lc Harriman with his hi great six nil da day record of bOO 1300 miles I defeated him himin himin himin in a three day contest at Sacramento One of th the most striking races in in which Callahan ever vcr en engaged n cd was wag where he lie walked five miles a against five men incH they doing loin the distance in relay raco race fashion ono one man to each mile milc But bo ho beat heat them to it his llis endurance and wind bein being phenomenal Harder r than that he says save was therace tho the thorace thorace race he had twenty miles n. n against three c men each of whom walked about six miles against ng him But again l ain his en- en was superior to theirs and ho he won on out onto However cr to the casual reader it would seem that his greatest achievement achievement achieve achieve- ment was when ho he walked five fic miles to another mans man's running seven se miles and defeated tho the latter doing his five on tho the walk in shorter time timo than theother tho the other man did hl his miles mie running Stove Steve Mccoy of the tho San Francisco r OJ Olympic club was one ono of t tile the e hardest propositions ho ran up 3 against But I Callahan defeated him in the thc last twenty feet of 1 n milo fivemile walk Wins Vins Out at the Finish Tho contest was practically shoulder I to shoulder bouder all the way up t to the point that Callahans Callahan's s 's contestant simply gave o a out ont entirely falling sick on the track when whet the older man spurted ahead abea across the thc tape Wo We c used usel to have women walkers up north there said Callahan but hut they thoy could not win against men Amy Howard and Madame LaChapelle were among the tho best of them One of the bi biggest records of Callahan Calm Calla han ban is his walking 7 10 JO mi miles mile in nine and one half days clays which lie he accomplished pushed at San Francisco June 23 3 1880 1550 Ho lie is the lon longest est stepper in the tho world worl with a stride e of forty inches and tho the most rapid heel and toe walker in inthe inthe the thc United States There is is no race raco as exciting at as a t when hen two men arc walking n against each other said Mr Callahan enthusiastically en en- It It yesterday surpasses surpasses sur sur- passes bicycle racin racing or foot running entirely B But t as aa I wrote one time for the tho papers fair heel and too walkin walking is the most difficult thin thing to train oneself oneS one self to do especially in the excitement of a a. raco race where a referee docs does not aIa always always al aI- al- al ways a 8 look carefully a at tho the men to see if the they are running instead of 01 walkin walk walk- in ing Kept Muldoon Running One ti time o when I was akin walking akina a against a young ouo man frum from Now York Holmes it was was was-Muldoon Muldoon who was wag refereeing tho race had haa to run to keep kee up with ith us walking You see in walk wak- in ing in a race rne you do not bend hend the tho knee but simply sin swing the entire lc leg from the hips One of Callahan Callahan's a records was Avas to walk a mile in 7 minutes with an average o stride e of forty eight inches ii in British Columbia in Many aDY of tho the newspaper notices of his lib work on n the walking antin track Mr 11 Calm Calm- 11 a. a han has kept in a n valuable scrapbook which bo ho uses USE'S to refresh h his lJ mind mimi on records of tho the past This Thil is full of interesting data on this most wonder wonder- ful fu walker of the American continent Should Mr Callahan go cast east an and meet tho the event would bo ho watched with the lie greatest interest by bv his Call California frnia friends Los Los A AD Angeles e s Record |