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Show Williams Wins Marathon; Race Is Great Success Top: Placing the .runners for the start. Bottom, Herbert N. Wiljiams, the winner. Winner Sets Fast Pace and Is Never Headed; All Fin-i8h Fin-i8h Strong. HERBERT N. WILLIAMS, unattached, unat-tached, of Bait Lako won tho Commercial club cross-city run yesterday. Ho won It In fast time and flnlshod strong. Williams Wil-liams unquestionably is a mnnor. He knows bow to make every motion count ana ho haB mastered tho art or conserving con-serving his strength. Williams was In the lead at the start and ho was nevor headed. He sot a raot pace and ho kept it up. Had Williams and the other runners not oncountered so many obstacles In their path there seems reason to believe that ho could have done It In 26:00 Instead of 23:31 4-5, his time. Williams was formerly a member mem-ber of the Olympic Athlotlc club of San Francisco. , .. Forty-five started In tho cross-city run and twonty-nlnc finished. Every one of the lads who crossed the tape was In excellent condition save ono, Orin Jackson Jack-son of tho B. Y. C, Logan Jackson fainted at the finish, but quickly recov- i ered and was no worse for Ills exercise half an hour afterward. ! Every conceivable annoyance was put In tho way of tho runners. Although tho Commercial club field sports committee ! had done everything within Its power to keop the course clear, the road was packed with automobiles and vehicles of all sorts, to say nothing of hundreds of men, boys and dogs. It is a fact that Williams and those who finished immo- ' dlately after him had to fight their way , through a dense crowd before they could . touch tho finishing line. j Over Rough Spots. 1 Along the courso nobody seemed to regard re-gard tho rights of tho sprinters. Automobiles Auto-mobiles cut across the streets with reckless reck-less swinge, sometimes coming directly In front of the runner. At Ninth South and Stato streets tho sprinters encoui torcd a paving Job under way. The contractors con-tractors hnd loft a narrow roadway for vehicles. This road the automoblllsts promptly and considerately pre-empted, leaving the runners lo scramble over the embankments and through the weeds alongside the road as best they could. A couple of the entrants took advantage advan-tage of passing autoa to "get a lift." The inspectors of the course, however, quickly spotted them and "there was nothing doing.". Big Crowd Gathers. At the corner of South Temple and Main, the place of starting and flnlsh-Jng, flnlsh-Jng, a dense crowd of spectators gathered. gath-ered. It was with the utmost difficulty that the sturt was effected. Everybody was Interested and tho throng surged to and fro In an effort to keep their eyes on what was carrying on. At 2:27 o'clock Dr. C. G. Plummer, having, with tho assistance of the other officials, lined the entrants across Main street, directly opposite tho admlnlstra-Jlou admlnlstra-Jlou building of the Mormon church, gave the word that sent tho boys away on their grind over five and one-half miles of city Htreets. The length of the course, according to - automobile speedometer, was tvc and ono-quartor miles. When they crossed South Temple, Williams Wil-liams was In tho lead, hitting It up llve-Iv llve-Iv Tie maintained the pace to Sixth South, where tho turn was made for Stato street. 9 Autos Block Way. There wits much confusion at tho turn. Scores of automobiles held tho right of way, and tho runners dodged and twisted In and iflit among the machines and the docs until they got away clear again Tho run on State street to Ninth South, was a pretty sprint. At Ninth South there was difficulty owing to the torn-up condition of tho street, but the obstructions obstruc-tions wore finally rapsjed and tho runners run-ners went on to Eleventh South. Turning westward on that street, tho lads stretched out for Main stroot. Main street meant the beginning of a hard grind with a sharp sprint nt the 'end. Into Main Street. Turning from Eleventh South into Main street.-tho order of thn runners was ns follows: 1 William. " Theodore Johnson. 3 Tolman. 1 4 Jackson. ' ' 5 Verbryok. v, , 6 Jameson.. v 7 Paul. xt ..7 S Smc-dley. 0 Charles Johson. 10 Hales. i r 11 Sumption. 12 Culler. . . 13 MarM. 11 Brlnton. 15 Cannon. ' . it; Upham. 17 Burrows. IS Dent. 19 S to well. . 20 Prlmo. f 21 Francis. ' 22 Eddlngton. .23 Squires. 21 Crouch. .", ! 25 Harris. 2G Stcffenson. j . 27 Wadsworth. . ' V . ' 2S T)eForgH5h. 20 Mabbutt. 30 Stone, Through the Crowds. ' : Up Main street the sprinters flew, with ' WllllamB now half a nlocl: ahead. At every atreot intersection tlierr was a crowd and the runners bored their way thruugh as best they could. Williams's lead lncrcused ua the llnlsh line was n eared. When ho crossed trjo tapo tho timekeepers snapped his-time at (Continued on Pollowing Page.) WILLIAMS IS FIRST I GR0SS-G1TY RACE (Continued from Proceding Page.) :23;3l 4-5. Owing to the Jam, the official offi-cial time of Nathan Tolman, second, and Theodore Johnson, third, was not caught Tolitinn finished approximately a minute and a half behind Williams, and Johnson half a minute behind Tolman. The officials noted down the finlBb. of twenty-nine of tho runners, after which no attempt. Was made to ascertain the positions of the boys In the ruck, most i of whom came In walking leisurely. The athletes went to the Descret gymnasium gym-nasium after tho race, where they took a shower and a rundown. All wore in i remarkably good condition. Pick of Prizes. The prizes were distributed last night. Tho. winner had first choice of the collection, col-lection, and he chose a gold watch, upon, which his name and a brief record of his achievement will be engraved. Another gold watch wont to tho second man, and then tho others took what thoy desired, choosing in tho order in which they finished. fin-ished. Tho following entrants In the junior division won prizes: Albert H. Paul.-Al-len R. Cutler, Garrison Verbryck, Carly Burrows, Munn Cannon. (Juniors are runners undor 21 years of age.) They wero also competitors In tho open claBS. In addition to the prizes, the Juniors will receive gold medals. Following Is a list of the entrants: Morton P. Ormsby, No. 1; Herbert N. Williams. No. 2; G. Garrison Vorbryck. No. 3; Julius DeForgash. No. A; Fred Mabbutt, No. 5; Charles Johnson, No. 6: Jesse M. Drury. No. 7, all of Salt Lake City, unattached; Lloyd II. Crouch, No. 8; Philip E. Stone. No. 9; B. R Jameson, No. 10. Cnrly C Bourrows, No. 11: Alan R. Cutler, No. 12; Walter Stack, No. 18. all of the Unlver6lty of Utah; Arthur Farnow, No. H; Milton Ganahl. No, IB; Frank M. Gorman. No. 16; Georgo Arnold, Ar-nold, No. 17; Theodore A. Johnson. No. 18; Morgan Sweeney, No. 19; V. J. Churchill. No. 20; A. Murray Spooner, No. 21; Manno Alias, No. 22; Heyman Doutsch. No. 23, all of tho T. M. C. A.; Otto Marti. No. 24; 13. L. Squires. No. 25; Li. B. Brlnton, No. 2C; J. Edward Prime, No. 27: Munn Cannon, No. 25; Harold Dent, No. 29, all of the Doseret gymnasium; gymna-sium; Nathan Tolman, No. 30; Lorenzo Boskolley. No. SI; Orln Jackson. No. 32. all of the B. Y. college; Burt Sumpslon, No. 33; Eugene Stowoll, No. 54; Philip Burkdall, No. S5; Eugene Hales, No. 36. all of the B. T. U.; Louis Stefferisen.' No, 87; Israel Smedley. No. 38: Earl FranclB, No. 39; Elmo Eddlngton, No, 40; Albert H. Paul. No. 41; Virgil Harria. No. 42, all of the L. D. 8. high school; I H. Wadsworth. No. 43; W. B. Stoddard, No. 44, both of the Hooper club of Hooper. Utah; p. W. Upham, No. 46, T. M. C A. The Officials. The officials under whose direction tho race was run, and to whom credit is due for its success, wero: Referee A, H. Crabbe. Clerk of coureo Freeman Bassett Chief ludge of finish Harry S. Harper. Har-per. Assistant judges of finish John V. Tobln and 1. F. P. Birkenstock. Chlof scefbr It. J, Frolscth. Assistant scorers, F. C. Crabbe and W. C. ,1ark. Chief Inspector of course It, J. Armstrong. Arm-strong. Assistant lnspoctors of course. H. Wells Culmer, C. C. Campbell, Earl Aldrldgo and George C. Cowing. Chief timer Dr. C. G. Plnmmer. Assistant As-sistant timer, R. G.. Halloran. I NATHAN TOLMAN, B.J Y. C. runner, who was second' in the cross city, run. , |