GALE'S WALKING FEAT.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2205, 21 March 1881, Page 3

GALE'S WALKING FEAT.

Having failed in his original attempt to walk 2500 miles in 2000 half hours, just when he seemed certain of >uooess, Gale still continued to walk at intervals till four o'clock en Saturday, by which time the thousand hoots hod expired. Although he did not succeed in completing 2500 miles in the time, he accomplished the most wonderful feat of the kind on record, covering no less than 24051 miles. This is all the more astonishing when the tactis taken into consideration that almost lo the last he fulfilled the conditions of walking a mile and a quarter every half-hour. How little his health appears to have suffered may be judged from the following report of Dr. Gant, FR.O.S., who visited him frequently during his walk, and at the oonolusion found his condition to be as follows :—"Pulse strong regular, and full, ot 75; heart's action and sounds quite normal; temperature 97 2 sths; hands and feet warm, respiration 16 per minute and deep, appetite unimpaired; frontal headache, pupils of eyes not dilated, of equal lize and contracted under light; was drowsy, and slept in a few minutes, snoring, but there was no puffing of cheeks. On the exterior of the body the complexion was ruddy and somewhat weatherbeaten; legs, measurement round middle of thigh in right leg, 17£r0., left, 16Jin., varicose veins of left leg in exactly same state as at start, and not in ony way aggravated. No varioooele. Feet sound, but cuticle on heel and treading portion of sole much thickened. At the start Gale weighed Bst 91b,, and at the finish Bst 21b., having thus lost but 71b." Financially the performance has not been a success, Gale and his supporters being considerably out of pocket, though had he managed to keep to his original conditions to the finish, the result would no doubt have been different.

Little Rowell is again about to be put on his mettle, D. O'Leary, of New York, having aocepted his challenge for a six days' oontest in America for the championship of the world. The Cambridgeshire man evidently means business, for he has gone into train-