Show I BIG MC MARATHON I TO 8 BE RUN ro TODAY AY CHICAGO May 29 Eight 9 Eight of ot the fastest fast fast- est eat long distance runners of the faced aced Starter James Jams J. J Jeffries at 3 o'clock this afternoon in the American league baseball park as all contestants In Inthe tilt the international Marathon derby A track eight laps to the mile had hade hadn been constructed n r in t the park r The dis distance distance dis- dis I nd 1 J tance e e Is 26 miles 5 yards and the rec record record rec- rec ord Is 2 hours 39 minutes 20 seconds There Thre Is III In prize mone money it Is said All 11 the champions champion of recent fields are represented with the tho exception of or Dorando Pietri S The men In the thc race are Johnny Hayes lla-cs the thc winner of or the tho last Olympic Marathon Henri St St. Yves St.-Yves Yves Yve winner of at the two big New York races John S the Swedish champion Fred ored Simpson Ojibway Indian Tom Longboat Canadian Indian Matt Maloney of New w York 1 Fied 1 1 Appleby Appleb holder bolder of the mile fifteen-mile re record ord Alex b of ro Chicago I St. St Yves Yes and Longboat are re quoted as asI favorites I |