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Show The Skaters Walk Away from Oddy. The advertised race between Jack Oddy, heel and toe, and Saunders and Bourne on skates, took place at the Skating Pavilion last night before a largo number of interested spectators. The challenge and contract obliged Oddy to walk two miles square heel and toe while the skaters covered three miles. Purse, $100. Everyone was of the opinion that Oddy would be left far in the shade, but he was only defeated by about seventy-five seventy-five feet. At about 9 o'clock "W. T. Lynch, as judge, started the well-known pedestrian and Oscar Bourne on the novel contest. Bourne skated the first mile and a half, and then Lon Saunders lapped on and finished the remainder of the distance. dis-tance. Oddy started on a steady, practiced prac-ticed stride, and gradually increased his speed without once fagging, and completed com-pleted his two miles of thirty-two laps in exactly fifteen minutes and forty seconds. The race was exciting from being so close from what was expected. It is probable that another like exhibition ex-hibition will take place under the same rules and conditions. Many persons are now of the opinion that Oddy can walk the two miles in les3 time than the two men can skate three, although it looks to be quite impossible. |