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"Will delight athletic enthusiasts who have a strong interest in  this ‘lost’ section of the sport"
Newcastle Evening Chronicle (UK)
Hammersmith & 
Fulham News, London, UK
Sheffield Star, UK
East London Advertiser, 
London, UK
Rotherham Advertiser, Yorkshire, UK
The Independent, UK
Chester Chronicle, 
UK
Steelmekker,
Sheffield, UK
Surprising history of 
indoor athletics...
THE HERALD 
(Scotland, UK)
Endorsed by  
William Sichel (Scotland)
— modern CHAMPION  international ultra-distance runner, 
who comments:  
"I have certainly been inspired by your book."
WORLDWIDE PEDESTRIANISM --  MEDIA COVERAGE
AFTONBLADET (SWEDEN) Svaret på idrottens klurigaste fråga
ilPOST (ITALY) 'Quando si camminava per sport'
VICTORIAN ULTRARUNNERS'

Ultrarunning World 
Daily Express, UK

Robert Vint. 
the "Brooklyn Cobbler" (USA)
Sam Merritt
(Bridgeport, 
CT., USA)
Peter Panchot
(Buffalo, 
N. Y., USA)
 "Old Sport"
  Campana  
 (Bridgeport, 
CT., USA)
Ephraim Clow
(P. E. I., 
Canada)
Patrick Fitzgerald
(Long Island, 
New York, USA)
Alfred Elson 
(Meriden, 
CT., USA)

George Cartwright 
(aka the "Walsall Flyer"), 
gets assaulted by an irate punter during the 
2nd Astley Challenge Belt 
held at the Bingley Hall, Birmingham, England, in 1882.

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                   "YOU CAN'T WALK; 
            I CAN BEAT YOU MYSELF"
-- HOW A PEDESTRIAN'S WIFE IN THE 
SIX DAYS CONTEST IN NEW YORK SHAMED HER SLOW GOING HUSBAND...
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George Guyon,
aka the
"Adonis" 
of 
St. Cecille, Canada,
was very 
"popular"
 with the ladies 
in the crowd!
George Cameron
aka
"Noremac"
of Edinburgh, 
Scotland.

His wife was killed.








But who did it?

Read what happened 
in the chapter

'MURDER 
and 
SUICIDE!' 

in 

King of the Peds...
Charles A. Harriman
of Whitefield, Maine, USA.
The "Steamboat" 
had an affair with a 
beautiful married woman











who fell in love with him 
as he performed in the 
3rd Astley Belt 
contest at 
Gilmore's Garden,
 New York, 
March, 1879.
Read about their
 romance 
in the chapter
'Flags, Flowers 
and Femininity' 
in
King of the Peds...
"Honest"
John Ennis,
of
Richmond Harbour,
County Longford,
Ireland
​MADISON SQUARE GARDEN,
NEW YORK, 
FEBRUARY, 1888

William Edwards
AUSTRALIA
Henry Vaughan 
ENGLAND
William Gale
WALES
Joe Scott
NEW ZEALAND
Napoleon Campana
USA
Robert Vint
USA
Charles Harriman 
USA
Norman Taylor
USA 
*** See 'Usage of Images' note at bottom of page *** 
  Tom Cox (420 miles), George Noremac (362 miles) and Robert Vint (301 miles), at the Park Rink, East Saginaw, Mich., USA, between 26 April and 1 May, 1886, in the 12 hours per day, six-day, go-as-you-please race.
ANTON 
STROKEL
(Austria),
Age 31, scores 
432 miles to beat ...
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