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Athletics and Football (the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes) (1887)

Shearman, Montague, Rye, W., Webster, Richard Sir · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 152

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WALKING AND WALKERS . 123 run in a walking race without being discovered and disquali- fied? The question is a pertinent one and requires careful answering, but the real solution of the mystery is in our opinion this—that athletes, professional and amateur, have never yet … arrived at a satisfactory definition, founded on a rational basis, of what fair walking is. Westhall, writing in 1862 and speaking of professional pedestrians especially, says the unsatisfactory state of walking

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