Deerfoot (Louis Bennett, Seneca indian) c. 1860?
At 06:51 PM 3/29/2001 +0200, David Dallman wrote:
> Here's something connecting two recent threads.
>
> Anyway, "Kings of Distance" consists of 5 biographies of distance
>runners who dominated the world in their time. Working backwards in time:
>Emil Zatopek, Paavo Nurmi, Alfred Shrubb (around 1905), Walter George
>(around 1880) and the fifth one, who came from the US.
>
> Since the recent discussion of the greatest US distance runners seems to
>go no further back than about 1960, I would like to propose this one as a
>candidate. Who knows who he was? Of course, if you have the book, it's
>easy, but ....
Don't have the book.
> David Dallman
>
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