Show I HOW HAYES YES i WON THE MARATHON Game Youngster Who Carried American CWON Colors to Victory Gives a Graphic Description of the Event BY JOHNNY HAYES Winner of the Marathon I It Isn t anything wonderful that so fany any Americans finished up In ht front was teas wu Just a case 3 of oC u using Ing our bruins brains I dont suppose we e are so much faster Caster lian tan Ian the English but we go at things Ith out heads instead of our legs leg We Va Vaake lake ake a careful study stud of oC the art of pet get et r ng out the best bet that In us u That I r Ive studied Marathon running for lur ye ars Ive 1 run three thre at Boston Ind rid nd l Sir je at Yonkers besides beside the Canu liun ian an the th Bay race roce which is isly 1 ly Iy nineteen miles I ought to be bt n a I nod judge of oC pace I 1 always aha s study stud the ther fellows carefully and antI I come conic comey retty y near telling what they can do doIt doId dord It rd Id d regulating my own pace to fit Ve We studied all the th traditions in Eng tr 1 We I did our training very er curl care carelly Jill lib lly and lo lost t no sleep over the stories bout bOllt the terrible pace 1 e the English dl jm tr e runners would cut tut ut out Mike was with us and we knew wt WI wead lad ad the best advice e anyway Theres a tart all who i ho Is entitled to a lot of tiC credit like lake ought to have IUle the till biggest loving lup up that there Is in ht the market et and andrev rev ought to put him In the Hall of ran umE ame c He surely surel did dill a lot Int for us over fiver overmere mere lert Wont Trial Race 4 Ml U let IN us run rtin nin in a trial race of oe hot hOlt fifteen i t s The Indian T Te won that 1 was a 1 minute or lr we V behind I used my m natural pace I nd nil I felt CIt sure lure that the Indian ran too ast too keep up over or the long course If f he could have kept It up I 1 would lave ace been glad at that because he h the flag too One thing that gave us a lot of con dence before the race was a trial the had haJ Duncan the best of the ran run ten miles with the They have some good nen inen Jut ut Duncan Dum an went w nt out of sight ahead of or he lie bunch between eight and nine lilies Ales 8 As soon oon as I heard that 1 I felt lure ure we had them Duncans pace was loo 00 fast for Cor a man training for a Mara hon I knew hed try tr the same nm pace t 1 the big rice race and I knew that no noman lying man could stick It out and finish l tell ell going like that So we kept plug ling Ing on with our work The day da of the th big bl race was pretty partly I ot We Ye had formed in four lines lilies In III I he ground of Windsor castle There sere ere about sixty of oC us starting men Irom rom all over oer the world The Princess f C Wales Vales fired tired the Starting pistol No Xo NoI Nohe I he hold It IL She pressed a but buton lon on nn they the told me nit I see that part If f C the fun I was too busy bus thinking J bout the race I was in the third line Irom rom the front Of course It oake any difference about that We Ve iere sere close enough together for such Ruch a arace arace ag g race The road for a mile or so was all les Rough going but a fellow e t give ve a whoop about that when leS fit I care how rough It as so long as the others had to cover coverI I he same ground It wa shot too but butt It t was Just as hot for the others as it Las inS for tor me Everything Eve was for a fair fairand and no favors In that race English Set the Pace The he English started off ore at a terri le Ie clip That was Just what I expect d and it worry me at all J I set ay w pace and paid no attention to any an ody od else It t have made me mehan han hange e a step tep if It they had all run away Irom rom ram me at first I had it all lally any ally figured out Youve YOUVA got to be in a Marathon You Tou have ave just rl 1 I so se much power and endurance to spend spendIn sp nd In a little over twentysix miles and youve oue got to fix your our own pace so that you ou get et out the best average speed for forthe forthe the entire distance You must have just enough at the tIll finish to make a spurt purt If u it Is close do t A man In good condition can run indefinitely at a certain certain certain tain clip without feeling any strain at atall atall atall all but If he exceeds that speed mid midway midway way hell break down doun You run at that pace pace until you reach miles mile If there arent any an kinks in you then you rou ou ean Cali in gallop the till rest r st of the way wa The Marathon road toad went event over oer all sorts orts of oC ground It was a u winding road part of It fine line smooth surface like a carriage drive Five miles out from the start Cameron our bicycle man met me with his wheel I need an n attendant for the first five miles There were about twenty ahead of j me 1111 Cameron Cameton figured Perhaps a fe v more We Ve count very en carefully After a while I J began to overhaul and ands muss taus s s them They came back hack one by byone byone one Some Som were staggering along and andI some Ome I had dropped beside the road I f turn my may m head to look at them just kept plugging along alon and keeping keepin my pace as smooth th as us a machine At about miles I was waR still fresh and strong and I begun began b an to tomake tomake tomake make my effort Cameron had ridden on to get the news and coming coining back told me there tl Ure re were only two more ahead abend of me 11 They The had passed six minutes before he said I cut loose now for all I J had ha In me I was never neverIn nc r rIn In bettor better condition I even een tired As we neared the stadium the crowds grew thicker and thicker The Thelast Th Thelast last mile was through a sort of meadow and nd here the th English Jammed in close dose to the course leaving just room enough for our elbows to t swing without hitting on either t side There were stacks of police detailed to keep It p the road clear Xo not a sign of trouble anywhere re along the Ule line line lIn There was just jURt one solid road of cheering Of course courso they the were cheering Just as hard bard UD up ahead where Hefferon the South African and Do Dorando Dorando rando lando the Italian were going Per Perhaps Imps haps they were ere cheering heering harder for the first man mall than they were when I came along alon but I dont lont see how In blazes they the could It sounded like Niagara Falls and a million Dutch bands try tn Ing In to drown each ach other out I 1 could see ee the solid tanks ranks along at my mr elbows on both sides every eer man with his bis bismouth hl mouth open like the hole In the end of ofa a trombone but I hear any an single Mingle voice In the racket They gave me as good as the next man The crowd In front leaned back hard against the ranks behind to give Ie me room My y being an American rut cut any ice It was getting near the finish of the Marathon and everybody was just about crazy with excitement I kept looking ahead and wondering why the other two come back to tome tome tome me I T was running strong and Increasing IncreasIng increasing ing the pace with every eer mile and I knew the others must be failing falUn Yet YetI I ran and ran nn without getting g a sight of anything but waving arms and flags and surging crowds that closed in ahead of oC me and then opened as I came cameto to give me a fair lane Those other two fellows were surely game Bathe I r heard afterward that after Dorando made his great effort outside a mile mill or so and got by b Hefferon ron he began falling failing down and staggering on again when they helped him up Talk about gameness What J I did was nothing to that for or I feel distressed at all v It Jt nt hurt me pie e to run I had ad saved saed n sel for this t li and I 1 was going at a mile run clip lIp now without wracking At A t last I got Hefferon H The poor fellow was staggering His legs were pumping up and down mechanically but he was hardly getting out of his ow own n tracks I turn my m head as asI I 1 went vent by b at full speed but I T saw that he was too far in to make fake any an effort to tall on to the procession Too bad too for it was only about a hundred and tw yards outside the stad stadium stadIum stadium ium gates gate Dorando was nowhere in sight I felt for a ti moment that the race was lost that he had finished ahead of or me after all But I never let UD I tore torn on Into the stadium Ill never forget for et that sight sl ht for 1 I was still fresh enough to take It all in About people looked like two or three million to met mei were jumping up and down in the grandstands and yelling their heads off They The were re turned away from me toward the other end at the track hack All of a sudden the yelling almost stopped I ran across the cycle path and turned to to the left to make the last 00 yards on mm the running track Ahead of me there was a crowd on the track The crowd was bunched up First they stand still sun then all push ahead for a few yards ards and stop again Cameron who came une in with wit me yelled Run Run nun He hl mt fin finished shed Run like h hI 1 You Youcan Youcan Youcan can get got him Run Run The Gruelling Finish With ith 00 yards artl to go 0 I 1 spurted for formy formy my life I saw the little crowd on the track push ahead rapidly stop gather together and push ahead again just like liko a football rush line shoving the ball aIl over or for a touchdown When hen I came in Dorando was about lv l yards from the finish He was doctored and revived and pulled to his feet and shoved shored along by b the officials They got him to the line just ahead of me meLand Land and dropped him it As Dorando finished they the had a stretcher ready read to carry him off the th field I was so close to him that they the were still busy bus and open opening opening ing the time stretcher when I went by b I Iwas Iwas Iwas was going so fast that I went over ocr theline the theline line thirty or forty fort yards ards before I J could stop Then I turned and w back Matty Halpin and my attendant Cam Cameron Cameron Cameron eron ran up to me and ask asked d me If I needed help Let me alone I said Im all right I 1 was almost sorry to see Dorando unable to finish after running the game i race ace he J e did They told me afterward that the Italian was all in after the twentieth mile from the terrible pace but he stuck It out until he fell unconscious unconscious and get set up again He would have stayed down after the first fall Inside the stadium but for the stimulants and the assistance given him by the officials there He could never have finished alone what made his disqualification necessary un under under der the rules of oC the game The English Eng rules distinctly stated that no assist assistance assistance assistance ance of any kind could be given a runner run runner runner ner after entering the stadium and that any an runner who collapsed from Ex Exhaustion ex exhaustion and was unable to continue without assistance must be removed from irom the course I dont know Imo whether I 1 shall shaH ever run another Marathon In my life or not nothey nothey hey he call this the greatest athletic honor in the tile world Ive done m my share Therell Theren always be plenty of oC good men In Jn America to win vin for us |