Show TOM LONGBOAT FAMOUS INDIAN INDIN RUNNER RUNNE Redskin Redskin 1 Who Broke All n Long Distance Marathon Records in Big Boston Event miles uphill and ad down ow through t dust dut rain rin enow and mud In tw two hours and ad minutes Is ia tho the latest latet bit of sensational running on the part of Tom Longboat the redskin run runner rn ner nez De from Hamilton Ontario Ob The Te son sn of ot ofte the te forest was wa as fresh freh upon finishing fresher frasher In tact as the average local loc boy who goes ge his hi half mile mie In 26 This Is I the tE record made in the Boston Boton Marathon Marthon race race a a week ago Longboat Ln boat used Use the same samo tactics that won for fo tUrn him hm in the te Canadian Cdan Marathon Mathon at Hamilton last fall fal He Refel fell in n behind the tho leaders leders and kept within with striking distance until the tho last ten miles when he came ce through and ad won with wt ridiculous ease e by half It a mile mlle Of Ot the tho bunch buich that went out cut and kie killed It I early in he Jie race Longboat was wa tie the t e only one that survived The To rest per perished per perished through the folly of their killing pace early In 1 the race race Not rot so 50 with wIt Long Longboat Longboat boat bot however He rated along behind the tying leaders leaden lede matching th their lr sprints with a hardly perceptive lengthening of ofus lS us stride stride until his eagle egle eye ce saw signs sigs of distress In his rivals running Then out went wet Longboat at Uphill and Id down dow he hit the same samo merciless clip Five miles mies from the finish he was a third thir of a mile ml mla ahead a ed and ad going ging along along as easily e Uy as though he was w cut Gut for tor a practice Jog Longboat t smashed Caffrey 1901 record ty by y more than five fie minutes minute and the won wonder wonder wonder der of it was the conditions under which the Indian raced Blinded by dust dus first frt and then rail rali ral and snow now with the last at ton ten miles mies of the going decidedly muddy the plucky pluck redskin bettered the record of ot Caffrey admitted to be one great greatest geat greatest est Marathon runners that ever lived lve by nearly a mile mie To do this Longboat had to run rn every mile of the tho In about five minutes and sec eec seconds end Caffrey Caffry made the former forer record in fn n 1901 under ideal Idel conditions fl i t ei j jI I t tt i t i e ii longboat Winning the Race |