PEDESTRIANISM
INWOOD and TWILLY — The one mile between Robert Inwood of Tooting, Surrey, and A. Twilly of Wandsworth, came off on Monday last, on Wandsworth Common. The men and their friends agreed to meet at the Plough Inn, according to articles, at seven o'clock in the evening, but the time running was not sent to us by the landlord of the Plough, which should have been done, that the spectators, who mustered numerously from London and other places, might not have been detained from three o'clock to seven.
Inwood, who had been in training under the care of the celebrated Robinson of Newton Moor, at Blackheath, looked in first-rate condition, but Twilly was fat and anything but up to the mark for mile race.
This made the odds in betting 2 or 3 to I on Inwood, which was freely offered by the knowing ones from London, but not so freely taken, although a good deal of money was laid out.
At a quarter past seven o'clock the spectators, who numbered nearly two thousand, many of whom seemed quite tired of waiting, had the pleasure of seeing the men stripped and ready for action.
The signal being given, the men were soon at work, Inwood taking the lead at merry pace, and at the first quarter of a mile headed his opponent by a dozen yards, and continued gaining ground fast, Twilly already seeming in great distress, and he, finding that he had not a chance, gave up at half the distance, dead beat, Inwood running in an easy winner.
Twilly's friends seemed thunderstruck at his giving up so early in the race, and many said had not done his best to win; but this we are assured was not the case, for struggled to his utmost to keep going, and when he gave up be was quite black in the face.
Berry of Lambeth and Pope from the West-end, ran a race of 100 yards, for small slake, upon the same ground, the latter receiving three yards start, which ended in a dead heat, after a well contested race.
[BNA: Bell's Life in London and Sporting Chronicle — 11 May 1845 ]
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WK ES V KVEMN . . . onwards by Kensington, Chelsea, Walham-green, Parson's-green, and Fulham, there crossing the river Thames to Wandsworth. It will then proceed to the station the South western railway on Wandsworth-common, and continue Its course Upper and Lower Tooting . . . Published: Wednesday 15 October 1845 Newspaper: Globe County: London, England[Source: Globe — Wednesday 15 October 1845 ]