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WALKING MATCH AGAINST TIME.
On Wednesday morning last, the Sporting
Walking, Flying, Pieman, Champion Pedestrian
of New South Wales, was matched for a wager
of £5 to walk from Titterton's Talbot Inn, on
Brickfield Ilill, to Ireland's, on the Parramatta
read, and back again, in an hour and ten minutes
the distance being somewhat over 8 miles.
This ubiquitous phenomenon, having soarcely
shut his eyes for three weeks, and having tra
velled three nights in each week a distance of 54
miles, between his town and country residence t
and having employed himself, on the morning in
question, in making and baking, shouting and
selling his rolls and pies, in and about the City
of Sydney— started from Titterton's at fifteen
minutes after 10 o'clock, and having proceeded
to Ireland's, where he was detained 7 minutes,
returned to the starting point precisely at 22
minutes past 11— having won his match with
3 minutes to spare, exclusive of the time lost at
Ireland's.
The Pieman challenges New South Wales, and
ib, certainly, the most extraordinary walker-
Hookey and the Postman only excepted— that we
have ever heard of.
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