HORSEMANSHIP 135 



than seven seconds. In this way my friend un- 

 wittingly constituted a record in the annals of 

 amateur athletics which has only since been 

 broken by the three famous American runners, 

 Heinrich Schlegel, Olaf Stjernhjelm, and Giovan- 

 ni Pacchiarotto, who won such kudos for the 

 United States at last year's great Olympic 

 Games. This, however, as you justly observe, 

 has nothing whatever to do with horseman- 

 ship. 



