How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie.

  • William Blaikie
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: How to get strong and how to stay so / by William Blaikie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Singularly enougli, a little boy, only eleven years old, and but three feet niue inches high, has copied, or rather acquired—for it seems he had never seen this sensible step and carriage of O’Leary— with astonishing success, as witness the following sketch of his performance from the New Yorlc Herald of October 11th, 1878. Foolish in the ex- treme as it is to allow such half-grown youngsters to attempt such feats, it is doubtful if the annals of the cinder-path can match such prodigious stay and skill in one so young :— AN EMBRYO o’lEARY. “ Between the Grand Central Dep6t and Madison Avenue and Forty-second and Forty-fourth streets is a vacant square, which the boys of the neighbourhood have been utilizing as a race-track. Every day dozens of them may be seen scurrying round the track, intent on making the best time ever known. Yesterday afternoon a five-mile walk was in progress,which was headed by a very small boy, who at once attracted the attention of the bystanders by his peculiarly rapid and easy gait. He kept ahead of the other contestants, and finally distanced them by two laps, and won in the time of 48m. 2s. “ After this race, at the request of the lookers-on, he travelled around the track once (which is one-seventh of a mile) in Im. and 15s. He walks very erect, steps like O’Leary, and does not seem to be easily fatigued. This time is still more surprising considering that he is only eleven years old and but throe feet nine inches high, so that he cannot take a very long step. “ In a conversation with him, it was learned that his name was Joe Havey, residing at No. 144. East Forty-third Street. He has never seen a professional walk, so that his walking
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