The American champion Seneca Indian Louis Bennett, who ran under the name "Deerfoot," finished his remarkable first season in England with a dead-heat against 20-year old English champion Edward Mills over eight miles at the Hackney Wick track in London. This was a reprise of his first race of the tour when he lost against Mills at the same track more than three months before. In the interim, the crowd-pulling Native American had won all thirteen races against the best athletes in the country. He continued his tour in 1862 and 1863. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation
Edward S. Sears, Running Through The Ages (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 2001), 134.
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