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Show ATHLETIC PKEACIirR. REV. WORKMAN, ONE OF ".HE WORL0 S GREAT RUNNERS. H. Rerentlf Vanqul.h.4 the He.1 rtla-taar rtla-taar Kuener. uf Val. aed llerva'd lUdMinli., rralun. of r.UaU'. Kf l.alurea. On of the brt alhletra lo be found , aa U world today I an Kngllah alarixaian. lie la Hcv Herbert W. Workman, and hla pruweaa aa a runner run-ner waa forcibly biuuglil home to American at the recent International gaeuea at Berkeley Oval, near New otk, when the beat mhlrtia nf Yale and Harvard an t the beat men uf Oxford Ox-ford and Cambridge on the field. Al-thuujtb Al-thuujtb the American reprrarntativea won a majority of the roiitcata, their dlaUnce runnera were oiitclaaaed by llev. Mr. Workmnn. who carried th color of Cambridge. He eaally raptured rap-tured the one-half mile and th two mil eventa, and In the former. It I believed, he could have broken th world's record had he been puahed bard. Kev. Mr. Workman la a typical Bn-flleh Bn-flleh athletic Chrlatlnn. Thtit a full-Oedged full-Oedged rector of a large pariah ahould rrmw the Atlnnllc to compete In athletic ath-letic gamea may aeem a little elrango to Americana, who are accuatumed to clergy who gtva up atreniioua athletic port when they enter llio theological eralnarle. In Knghuid, however, th athletic rector I In great demand with eom paiiahe. and I her vm no aur-prlae aur-prlae when the young Cambridge runner run-ner wu lent to a parish In Southampton. South-ampton. Thla athletic clergyman I thoroughly Kngllah, both In appearance appear-ance and manner of epcec h. Ho I of medium height and alender build, but hla far and carriage tell of th great endurance neceaaary to champlonahlp dhrtanc running. Then I plenty of healthy color In hi emooth-ehaven beak. On hi vlalt here he ha worn th uaual black clerical garb ot th Kngllah rector, except when In running run-ning cloth, and th colon of hi unl-varalty. unl-varalty. Ktv. Mr, Workman haa been a runner run-ner alnce two year before he entered Cambridge University, lie ascribe hi remarkable running power to few -WW"' HKV. HKRDEItT W. WORKMAN, regular moula and regular houra. He I fond of smoking and haa yot to find that It handicaps him In hi rouleau. II frequently coca to tho track with a pipe In hi mouth. Hla pariah duties Interfere somewhat with his training, but he manage to get In good shspa for all hla match. The clergyman-athlet clergyman-athlet ayi that he will retire after tha nsxt Kngllah championship games, which will be held in.Kngland next year, and devote all bla tlm to his ministerial dullrj. |