Show PLUCKY CANADIAN ATHLETE work of marathon in prepare ing himself for olympian games hamilton ont the run ner who won the marathon race at athens Is likely to come out about to the good as a result of his victory tor friends in toronto and hamilton have given him that amount since his return s trip was a lesson in econ omy when he left hamilton be had in his pocket that was raised by his friends and be had his private bank deposit with him the total amounting to about out of this he had to pay for his second class pas sage to athens which ran away with about 75 and when he got there he found expenses piling up on every hand his board which was poor and meager cost him 3 50 a day for ivr two months what he got to eat con aisted principally of rolls and coffee d anything outside of that he bad to buy for himself such items as meat iad fruit were heavy extras by the time he had paid bis return passage by the campania his money was all fe except about 20 and by the time he landed in new york he had dropped to 3 after winning the race he got everything for nothing and had it not been for that he would have been strapped completely while he was training 75 was raised at a con cert in hamilton which reached him but that was cabled him on his victory never reached him tha ex press company claiming that it was sent too late when he stepped off the campania jingling the few cop pers remaining handed him from the hamilton fund and that gave him plenty to go home wath speaking of the matter said there were times when I 1 faced the probability of starving I 1 don t know what I 1 would have done it I 1 had lost the race it was the closest shave J want to have in my life |