Athletics and football . h display. Asthe obstacles may be of all sorts of height and stiffness, however,it is difficult to lay down any general rules to suit all runnersand all obstacles, but in no case should the chaser alight onboth feet from a jump, as he then comes to a dead runners take their spring from the right foot, and getover their obstacles a bit sideways with the right leg in therear. A steeplechase of two miles was one of the events in thefirst Inter-Varsity gathering on the Christ Church cricket-ground at Oxford in 1864, when R. C. Garnett, of Cambridge, RUNNING AND R
Athletics and football . h display. Asthe obstacles may be of all sorts of height and stiffness, however,it is difficult to lay down any general rules to suit all runnersand all obstacles, but in no case should the chaser alight onboth feet from a jump, as he then comes to a dead runners take their spring from the right foot, and getover their obstacles a bit sideways with the right leg in therear. A steeplechase of two miles was one of the events in thefirst Inter-Varsity gathering on the Christ Church cricket-ground at Oxford in 1864, when R. C. Garnett, of Cambridge, RUNNING AND RUNNERS 117 proved himself too good by six yards for the present Attorney-General, of whom, as a runner, we have already spoken. Inthe following year, however, the event was changed to a two-mile flat race ; and there have been no more steeplechases atInter-Varsity gatherings. For the four or five years before1875 the few steeplechases that were included in meetingsround London were nearly all won by C. J. Michod, a Civil. Steeplechase—Water-jump. Service runner, who was very clever over the obstacles andwater-jumps, and would have been a fine distance-runner hadhe been gifted with a little more pace for a spurt. We canrecollect on one occasion Slade starting at scratch with Michodin a steeplechase at the Richmond Cricket Club Sports ; butthe crack miler blundered so much over the hurdles, banginghis shins, and occasionally falling prostrate, that Michod before ii8 ATHLETICS long sailed away from him, and eventually won the race out-right, Slade giving up. In the summer championship of 1879a two-mile steeplechase was included in the programme, andwas won by H. IM. Oliver, an old London paperchaser, who forsome years previous to that date had settled in Birmingham andbecome the leader of the athletic movement in the midlands,and founder of the famous Moseley Harriers Club. Oliver wasonly a moderate performer on the flat, but was certainly a veryclever jumper, never wasting an o
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