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Show D0RAND0 BEATS TWO MEN IN 12-MILE RACE FALL RIVER. Mass.. Dec. 25. In a twelve-mile exhibition relay race at the athletic grounds in this city today, Do-rando Do-rando Pletri. the Italian Marathon runner, run-ner, defeated Floyd Doughty of Providence Provi-dence and Samuel MyerG of Cambridge, by a lap. Dorando's time was 1:03:39: that of tho Doughty-Myers team was 1:04:18. A large crowd watched the contest. Doughty ran against tho Italian In the first six miles and finished the first lap a few yards In the lead. Dorando took the lead In the second lap and was never again headed. At the end of the sixth mile the Italian's lead was three-quarters of a lap. Myers then came on the track and by fast work cut Dorando'a lead to a quarter quar-ter of a lap. Dorando by tho end of tho cloventh mile, howevor, was half a lap ahead, and maintained this lead to the finish. |