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FOUR ON TRAMP FROM ATLANTIC TO THE PAG1FYoung Men to Cover 3,340 Miles!on Foot. iARE AHEAD OF THEIR SCHEDULEMust Be in San Francisco by October 13.WALKING TO DECIDE A WAGERPropose to Beat Montana Toe's Record of Six Months and Three Weeks,Are Losing Weight, but Healthy.- 0 -Walking from Boston to San Bran cisco, four young: men, Archk B. Davison, Arthur KeuhJ. Bert Brown and Walter Barber, arrived in Syracuse shortly before 1-c'cloel: last night.The pedestrians are nbout 21 years old. and arc making Hie trip to decide a. bee made by two Boston men. Davison is manager, and ho .has the privilege oi! riding- -when he finds it neces3ury. The other three are obLiged to wtilk the'whole dia-tanco of H.o-iO miles,•While in a Boston poolroom or.e of tlin hoys boasted that hr. could walk to San Francisco *nd beat 31 oat an a Joe's record of sis months and three weeks. Ho said ihat To wan confident that he could make the walk in -five months.A, sporLlng man and a business man took up the argument and the wager resulted. According to,the terms, the young men mu at support ihem:«:lvca while on the trip entirely by selling their photographs at 10 cents each. The three walkers are not allowed to got aboard of a trolley car, wagon, boat or any other conveyance, and they must be in San Francisco by October 13.Photo graphs Bring' Hevenue. When they left Boston they were given fifty photographs. They were obliged to save enough out of the money received from selling that number to buy a new stock of photographs and pay their living-expenses.If they reach Sar. Francisco in the required time each will receive ?2TjO and expenses back to Boston.So far they have walked about S7o miles and are twenty mi I os ahead of their schedule. They left Utica at 10 o’clock Wednesday morning-They expect to leave Syracuse peme rime to-day and go on to Xloch ester.Brown and Barber have each lost twelve pound?, Koiihl six and Davison live since they left Benton. They are in good health.Facli is attired in corduroy trousers, blue ikninel shirt and felt hat and carries a 32-caliber revolver. Three or. them carry small satchels weighing fifteen rounds, and another carries a knapsack.IT
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Syracuse Post Standard
Syracuse, New York, US
Fri, May 31, 1907
Page 6
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