ATHLETICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13697, 12 September 1908, Page 7

ATHLETICS

THE MARATHON RACE. The " Daily Mirror " of July 25 cont.vns • a full account, (>( tin- Marathon Rao: from Windsor to the ytadium. London, 26 miles 585 yanb, a,i (he Ulyinpic (James. llki Prime of Wales gave the signal to Lord Dei-borough to s.arf. race by touching an electric button. Fifty-five of the world's- liue'i long distance runners. ' jwt. -a ml -the - sjard was made at- 2.56 p.m. Jack, the Scottish champion, led the fieid. ui such, a pace for t> miles i hat that il otauce was run in 27 minute;, bu:. i,heir he, dropped back and his place «as taken l>y Lord and l*iice (bodi "ol Ku-rlanii) with Dorando third- and- T-wiiiia (an Indian) fourth. The two hnglishmen . strode away togc.her evidently trying to get at long ;i lead u.s possible. These tacI cs were for a time and at I.) miles they led Hetfrroi! (South Africa) and Dorando by a roiiple of hundred yardci. Long before . t-lien , Duncan, an If.nglishmnn, who was expected 'to - run prominently, had retired,' his ytrained k-g giving away again, and mk>ii the began to tell on Lord and I'rice: and' they flowed down to a. walk- . lvight. uji In the 'ls:h mile the i-rowds watclrng. tht raeo wei e. frying d< rn-ively "\\ here's Longboat?" uh«» Canadian long distance champion) but th«y .soon had Ihe sa.isfaction of t-eeing tne famous Indian runner for lie with ikale (Knglandl was hailing the t-econd cont ngent. The troubles of the Lnglislunen gav.- Longboa;.' liirf op port unity and ui.h 16 miles gone he had pa.s.M-d everybody hut Hcrteron. So d»eau•if till v mum the Indian going at this'point tftat it appeared a - if he could make up the diffcience whenever he I ked, but- a! 18 mi!et> lie cracked up u hen going strung aud .slowed down !'» a wulk, and tin crowdn elu-end a* Appleby, tin- famoun Knglish distance junn<r. par>.-*d the In diau and gun into third place b.hiud Helfeion and Dorando. Metlcron took the lead a) lo miles and kd for'the inxt ten miles and four mik.s from home he led Dorando by three minute-, which meant- that. Dorando na.H fully half a tii le behind 1 him. Af that j">int it 'coined impos-ibl- ! ijaJt Heiler'un could be beaten, aud he probably «■«•.> anvioiis !«> "in bv 100 unit h and .-o brought dWvrit upon hiutclf. I'u wards the end ■ iho joumkv In' began to .-.urn- about (he load and Dmainjo going along an en pure oin-e more s'igllU d th*- k' id-l. It ar> not au* ol llorand" overtaking Httfi-rou Jt-M-ewcd ra her a> if i he. I.liter rn/m- back to "lie Italian and » tn from tin- Sindium Dot.tndo found him-elf in front and >ii'-c«v- u riain if only h*- < -otild keep going. At the Stadium th- immense gat-heting "f oO.O'K) • |»e< i.i' or * wtic anxiously auditing til-- ' mil lig of 'he !• ad< n . The ujnotiinen:- n «.i> m.ide tinough tlje niygiiphon. -m " Th* leading iiinuei. all ll.lis.ill. i- in igli'." and b-.-foic t |it» leader -ta^ci*d ni'o the .mii.i tln-r-' \ra.< an almoin,i li u~ it l'i/-d .uid like ji blind ni.iii 1 ><ii.«Usi*■ '.unt in p .<» U no(. ktioiviii- «ii •ii ha\ tn turn ,<nd liicn painfully, flow ly. -'unibled on loitnii tin* track. 'l«ii<- he i«-t! but hjs f-et all 1 > I - goal <U)d then iiuinv th.it ii> - « .i» <i\ in;; I hen. »it it mi--taken kin-iii--.-. ,<n oifii ;.il fill - ■t h.ind ben«-.i'h h;-> >..u ui-l i,ih»-.| h in. aini jj.il In.-i linn-« if >ns- itija-tlt 4 ' ••tfo;i li- in--a.-i.<-'1 sin* ! ijh .ijui fell ujr '.on-" ion.-* Hi- I t ! ! ill ii.-iosr !ili)>i'llig 4*.i% i.nt-, lu \ n-U Si--m ;h ,ip. ~nd n t*nl\ o-r lli.t! ill t in 1 ? 1 h .i ,M:='«rd--In ! i h-« ton-!i< I M.>\ < • Ann ■ .uii<* ;-'t lii- M.ok, .<iid • pli-i'di'd ,ii "!l!el it. !«»(•--- bill -a hole I!i ii tin • 11 !!> if.l! v, !|u ~i W•!!••- ;. » • .!! mil- • -it .rlt i .i.'k "I i-'I '?(' ?• il- «-!jf All " r->ng aivi : • oii- • !•••?•»• t !•<•# to ■'i- S! .*«ii 1 :!11 •ii r .ir '- H* ic-.i',.--.! r if 1 i».«d (• 'i i> tn -.1.-1 -!«- t li. !.|.! i; !•; thud Inill! liia «k i!'(r 'ln- !ili:-ii > J•'-•' r ' ,-. < n!rf.-<i i'lld H ' '.I- I ' ii'- « SIEII' ! A prM • s! ■ • ?i { - ;* -! •- .i 11 11 .* «*■-■ 11.10- n.ol te-f !!: ;i>- >! li i:! 11, 5,! i! Uritrjtfii gi""i ■ j«ii-;sHi.M»eh)p »r'hdt- w i* titi \Vfh !>•'!■ tlif •;,f .-i :.n: u.'-.-J .1 n4 -

(V.S.i.! 1; -C- Heffexon (South Africa)

2, J. Forshaw iU S.A ) 5. A. Fv. WeLon (U:S A.). w. Wood tCanad'aV, F. Simpson (Canadai, H. Lawton (Canada!. J- FSvanberg (Sweden!. L. Tewan : na (U.S.A.), Nieminen '(Finland). Caffery (Canada). W. T. Clarke (United Kingdom!, E- Barnes (U.K.!. G. H. Hatch tU.S.A.f. F. Lord 'U K,!, W. (Canada-. J. G Bea-le (U K). A. Nejedky ißohemia i. G Lind (Rtv;sia!. W. \V. Walker iriolland). G. Tornros (Sweden 1 , G- Goulding (Canada). J. F. Jorgecson (Denmark), A. Burn (Canada!. E. Railr (Austria). R. C. Hansen (Denmark!. G. Lister (Canada*. Though at one stage, aboui 16 miles on ! the journev. Longboat, the famous Indian runner of Canada, was :u second place he came to grief u terly a little later. He fulfilled his intention to enter the Stadium first but it' wp as an almost c-enseb-'ss passenger on an official motor car. It was thought by many of the spectators at the liui;h that Dorando was dying , and that lib fate would b>: similar to" that of the or ginal Mara lion runner (I'heidippidesi who fell dead at his juurncy'b end. 1- was estimated that about a million and a half people witnessed the race at differs in portions along the rou;e. Ats Hell'eion and Doraudo enured upon the wilderness of Wormwood Scxubbs near the prison tlisy were told tha* they had only a mile to go. They ran their , hardest for a mile and then were " all out. - ' If they had both run lightly the last- three miles Hefferon would have won with Dorando swoond. j Her Majesty the Queen, who was present, i inquired most anxiously as to the condij tion of Dorando and was much relieved J when she learned that he - was recovering, jSo keen . was her sympathy with him ' in his misfortune 'hat >h<? presented him j with a special cup lor his heroic .feat of endurance.