GIRL'S GREAT WALK.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 824, 24 May 1910, Page 3

GIRL'S GREAT WALK.

A young American society girl, who started out to walk 108 miles for a wager ot £40, collapsed in hysterics on April 1 after covering just over GG miles. The heroine of this great feat, is Miss Eleanor Sears, one of the best known sportswomen in the United States, an expert rider and driver, golfer, swimmer, and lawn tenuis player, and a warm personal liostonian friend of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth. Colonel Roosevelt's, daughter. She was .recently discussing the feat of a doctor named M'Enery, who had walked from Burlingame to Delmonte, 10S miles, in 37 hours. She warmly resented the idea that men should be given all the credit for everything, and she offered to bet a couple of Californian friends that she could walk the distance in 55 hours. She added the caustic comment: "Most society men nowadays are molly-coddles, anyhow."

Miss Seal's entered upon her great undertaking at G o'clock on the Thursday morning. Clad in an Eton jacket, white duck skirt, : tourist cap, and solid shoes, she started oil', a motor-ear taking some elderly 'friends, food, and a change of clothes. Several hundred ladies set out with her, but at Paloalfo, fourteen miles distant, which was reached at 9.ls,'Miss Sears had only two girls beside her, aud an hour later was trudging all alone. By 11 at night she had walked 5G miles. Although limping and languid, she walked another, hour before her friends tried to coax her to shelter in a cottage till sunrise. Her voice was high pitched, and sho looked as if she would fall. She asked for a glass of water, and a young man fetched it and handed it (o her, but she refused to lake it. Sho was quite hysterical, and the ladies got down from their motor-cars and befought her to give up, but after everybody bad offered her counsel she remarked in a shrill, unnatural voice, "I'm going on." And on sho struggled (ill Gelroy was reached. Slip had negotiated 61 miles in 201ir. 15min. Her friends at this stage induced her to seek shelter in a roadside cottage. She insisted that she should be called at sunrise, but when sunrise came her whole body ached to such an extent that she was unable to move. Sho had to bo lifted into a motor-car and driven back to Burlingame.

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