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George Littlewood
...is the current holder of the 
world's OLDEST athletics-
based WORLD RECORD!
Charlie Rowell
Chapter 36 of KotP -- 
'Walking on Top of the World!'
can be downloaded here for FREE! 
Running 150 miles in ONE day 
wasn't a problem for the 
'Cambridge Wonder'. 
"Andsome Charlie" 
STILL holds the 
World Record for running the furthest 
distance for 6 days (12 hours per day) 
at the Royal Aquarium, Westminster, London, in April/May, 1885. 

Apart from winning many 
trophies in his career, Rowell would secure incredible prize money amounting 
to what is equivalent
 to a staggering

*** $$$ One Million Dollars $$$ ***
today for winning just 
two races in 1879.
This incredible athlete made a real impact on the American sporting scene, when he won the 
2nd O'Leary Belt with a new 6-Day 
World Record of 565 miles, in 1880
     GEORGE HAZAEL  
Was the FIRST man in the world to run  600 miles 
in six days! (1882)

Times Picayune  
Minneapolis Post  
OnMilwaukee   
 Int. Business Times
GRANTLAND
...was Daniel O'Leary's protégé.
Frank Hart aka 'Black Dan'

WINS! 
with a new six-day
World Record 
of 621 miles!
Feb., 1888
Jimmy Albert 

Patrick Fitzgerald

​ "Blower" Brown
Made 553 miles in six days for a new World Record in Feb., 1880
Berkshire Eagle 
Daily Express
 Inland Valley Daily Bulletin 
Irish Independent 
 LA REPUBBLICA (Italy) 
             The 
            Graphic 
30 March,1878

Left: Henry Vaughan 
Middle: Daniel O'Leary 
Right: "Blower" Brown 
​The early hours of Day 4 of the six-day $1,400 sweepstakes race at 
Madison Square Garden, New York, on Thursday, 1 May, 1884, sees the 
'Flying Scotsman' leading the 'Cambridge Wonder', 'Fitz' and Dan Herty...
"Who's gonna win the race?"

MSG, 
New York, Nov., 1888...

(Left to Right)
Hegelman
Golden
Sinclair 
Herty
Hughes
Hart
Cartwright
Vint
Day
Littlewood
(Top left) "Old Sport" Campana  (Top right) Nitaw-Eg-Ebow
Daniel O'Leary
Roadside sign 
celebrating 
O'Leary's life 
Edward Payson Weston
"WESTON, WESTON,
RAH-RAH-RAH!"
Weston's SPECTACULAR 
Career Biography by
 P.S. MARSHALL
A MAN IN A HURRY
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE AND TIMES OF
By Nick Harris, Helen Harris & P.S. Marshall
EDWARD PAYSON WESTON

​FREE sample from WWRRR
Cha. 28 (PDF)  
WESTON'S WALKING CLUB

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Walk 'Til You Drop:  
The Story Behind 
Sports Betting  
(VIDEO)
STILL holds the
6-day walking 
WORLD RECORD 
of 531miles...
The 'Sheffield Flyer' 
who can be read about on the
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Scored 610 miles in six days 
for a new World Record in 1884


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