I agree with josepp, a butterfly net might have been the best bet. That spider did need to be out of the house, but he needed more room to deal with the speed.

We used to joke that the wolf spiders that got in the house (my ex's house) when the kids were little were "Tarrant County racers." They always got away and hunkered under large pieces of furniture. Then when we moved here and had tarantulas, the wolf spiders tended to stay away, or at least, in the turf and the garden. They ceded the house to larger spiders, should they choose to move in.

SRS