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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 528

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p, ran it in 14 min. 26 4-5 sec. He is thebest man who hitherto has run the race, and hisuphill work especially is admirable. He is 23years of age, weighs 11^- stone, and stands 5 feet10^ inches in height. He earns his livelihoodas a labourer, at the famous Shap granite works,and his training is of… … Guides Race. start, preceded by a high stone wall, and after-wards one long, steep, craggy climb to thesummit, a height of 1100 feet from the valley,and 1300 feet above sea-level. The ground iseither of the very roughest, or, what is almostworse, of slippery bracken-grown screes, and thestiffness…

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