Show II I I SOME LIVE SPORTING GOSSIP w FIELD TRACK OK AND RING flING r LOCAL OCAL ANT LD TELEGRAPHIC REPORTS OF OP I 1 INDIAN DEFEATS i MIGHTY RUNNER T Overhauls Englishman in Last Mile of Great Marathon Marathon Mara Mara- thon Race iI i I RUNS TO COLLAPSE SHRUBS j r r. r X The Steady Pace of Longboat rf Af Of Breaks rea s Down Opponents Opponent's G Greater Speed Speeds j lz- lz v. v V BY flY C. C U. U YA VAN LOAN v Now Xo York Feb 5 Toni Tom Tom Lon Longboat boat f A 4 tho big Canadian broke Fred iu I heart and won a great race tonight j from ironi the gamest s-amest little runner that ever J wore ore a n. racing shoe hoe It Tt was as tho the old 1 story of ot tho the hare find and tho the tortoise The liaro inre had tho the speed and li he had the heart but the tho tortoise was built to toKO KO go the tho route an and that is s all aU that can be raid Slid of the greatest Marathon race of r f tho century For twenty miles raced the tite the ground and ran big Indian into roun I himself into a state of ot collapse in hi an all attempt to pain gain eight laps He Ire gain gained Ti-i Ti thern m. m hut Juit at nt the tho cost of every even spark of stamina in iri his bo body p and as ho staggered stag- stag ered front from the track a beaten beaton man at tho end of or the fifth firth lap in the twenty twenty- fourth mile Tom rom Longboat came caine plodding plodding plod plod- ding UnC down the tho stretch running as well as he lie had run at any stage e of oC the thc race The crowd gave ave one cheer for th the plucky luck little Englishman who had tried to play another mans man's game and failed and then settled down to watch Longboat finish the race alone aone If It pluck could have ha won vron the race It tt would have gono to the Englishman Ene 1 but a 3 man must have Marathon legs to go Co the tho route and did notha not ha have them Wanted Record was as out for a 0 now new record froni rom tho the crack of tho the pistol It was Ver very plain that ho intended to run Longboat off oft his legs lebS if It the tho Indian would Ts follow the tho pace an and to the surprise surprise sur sur- prise e of or eer every man in tho the house Longboat Longboat Longboat Long Long- boat swung In behind an and started tho the first mile mUo at a 0 live thc minute I clip As tho the men swung Into the stretch for tor tho third thir lap L Longboat dropped back with a grin and went on alone Time and again the Indian allowed e the tile Briton to spurt ahead d and close a lap At the tho end of the tho ninth mile was wag leading the tho thord red rd man b by three and a half halt lap laps I then set a stilt pace and soon I closed up the half halt lap gap ap and at ten miles was as J leading the Indian by b- four foul laps and yards Time 73 2 maintained his heart break ing ug pace paco and and In the fifteenth mile fi Booked as fresh resh as wh when 1 he lie first start- start f ed cd d. d The Indian although worried t ept plugging along at hi his hh usual gait s 1 was si sis elx and a half hat laps Japs ahead F The le In Indian lan sprinted in the eighteenth t. t i. i and cut down lend lead by b- fi 1 yards but the Englishman still led by q w seven n and yards f At tile the end of the eighteenth mile mite face fac had taken en on a serIo serious a expression and ho lie signalled for water It was plain that Toms Tom's only chance to I IwIn win 1 lay a in inability to gothe go the tong route I Weakens at Last It was during the twenty second second mile that began to go to pieces Time after time he lie pulled pUlle up to a walk and Longboat was plugging steadily p along and won back four tour of the laps I which ho he had lost In the twenty twenty- I third mile mUe stopped to rest and i lost two more laps Longboat was WIlS still sUll i plu plugging ging steadily along With an advantage of ot two laps lapel j thc then fell tell in behind Longboat for the tho final killing three miles mites At Atthe Atthe Atthe the beginning Inning of the twenty fourth TUlle mile was staggering g and looked to b be all in Longboat was one lap Jap behind was walking and ond Longboat had managed to get on even terms with the Englishman at twenty twenty- four tour miles and three laps The Indian took the lea lead at the end of or the twenty twenty- fourth was now limping alon along painfully and had gone only five laps lap 1 of tho twenty fifth mile mUe when ho staggered stag stag- gored ere and collapsed in a heap He lIo ha had to be carried ot off the track The Fhe Indian went ent ahead at his usual pace to the end of or the Marathon distance distance dis dis- tance while the the- vast audience rosand roseand rose rosa and nd yelled themselves hoarse |