Show YESTERDAY FOOT RACE A Small Crowd of Spectators Badly Disappointed The foot race at Washington Square yesterday afternoon was pronounced by all present to be one of the greatest fizzles that they had ever witnessed I The first cause for complaint was the fact that while the races were advertised adver-tised for 2 oclock not one of the participants par-ticipants appeared until nearly 3 oclock and then instead of five as advertised only three of them were present After a great deal of delay a start was made but for some reason or other the men stopped at the end ot the first 100 yards and retired to the dressing room and had it not been for the hard kick ing of the spectators present the race would have ended there After another delay however Reese and Tibtets again appeared upon the track the other man Mattbais having decided to givo up and another start was made This time the race was finished the two runners being about even at the end of the firsthand second hundred yards ana iioDetts coming in at the end of the 300 yards a few feet ahead The general impression was that there was not one cent put up by the backers of the men that the entries were free and that the whole thing was a scheme to get gate money The best cause for this impression was the indifference ot the runners themselves and another suspicious circumstance was the fact that there was no judge at the end of the 200 yards which according to the arrangements of the race was an absolute ab-solute necessity A more disappointed crowd tan those who paid the 50 cents entrance fee is seldom seen and even the small boys who climbed the fence to avoid the formality of presenting their tickets at the gate seemed thoroughly disgusted with themselves after being so Sadly raked in I I |