Show Ij Frenchman F h n Now a Hero Dero i i Was Wa Looked Upon asa as a Joke By Tad ratI I J NeW Now York April 10 Henry St SU I Yves Y g of or France formerly a caterer In Ina h ht int t a il London restaurant Is the hero of the sporting snorting world fhe The young man who heat the greatest Marathon run runners runa l a ners can enn claim tho thu honor of being the UIO best hest He heat both Longboat and andI I and made them both quit and nd would have made mado Hayes and Dorando I I do had the distance been Q lunger longer I I 1 f Sl St Yves was wa the smallest racer in inthe I tho the bunch Saturday and an at the start the biggest joke Dorando and ami Longboat most moat laughed J themselves silly at the tho dark horse holso I Jr when ho started lIe He had hall a choppy lit Ill littie tie stride like a Shetland pony pon He Ho t this took two stops to Longboats ono ono and his feet were raised only about six I I inches from the ground never neer much i more They The sa tv that Johnny Johnn Ha es esi hates i ii runs like an Indian close to the f II I I ground but this fellow f has them all nil stopped on the short stride He re rev reminded rei i f minded you you ou of a little sky sk terrier try tryIng tr trIng I Ing lag to keep up to a n greyhound when l 1 M ho II was as next to Longboat Ho was not notI Do I at M the front when tho the race raco started Do Dorando DoI I rando took that Job and set net I et a merry clip for a while St Sl Yves Yes jumped lo to the front then thenN N I Hurl simply burned tho the track up F j They e were wf re offering 10 to L 1 that he hei I would not win and oven even that he lw would i 11 I not even oon be lie third llo He is only 21 j years rears old I Harry Harr Stevens the Columbus of tho the thod d Frankfurter urged all his friends to toot J Jet ot a tack oil on St SL Ies Ives but Jul all his II friends laughed at al him St Yves look looked ed erl too fat and pudgy They Ther i oven even think that the would I run the mlle i Vait until about the fifteenth mile i will pull his hie cork yelled the theIse I wise Ise ones Mr did attempt to extract E II I tho the cork carl from French Frenchy but lost his i own trying tr It Longboat t had a terrible j job hanging on after St Yves took the tho i lead and quit In the twentieth mile I Shrub hung on as closely close I as he could until nUl the and an then fell fellIn fellI fellin I In behind r Dorando was ns the next man and was three 1 laps Mend ahead of Hayes and Mn tin In 1 honey loney lone who were supposed to be run running ning against him I SI SL Yves lies kept kopl his fast pace ce right up lip lipI I to 10 the finish and in the tho last mile tore toro t I around the big field as S though he was wasS wasa a just starting S k In about tho the seventh mile the I I Frenchman took a lead of about 75 i iI I I II feet He stayed there and occasion occasionally I ally all looked back to see seo how hov near tho the others were to him Then Thou for a lap lapI I I I I or more he hc would run nit along looking at attlio a atthe I the ilio ground Suddenly the others other would crawl up HII and then the bleach crites would let out a yell ell and like a u scared rabbit tho the Frenchman would take another mother spurt and regain his hll lead lea This Is what whal mado the tile others laugh They Tho thought that after awhile the little pudgy gent bent would duoG d was the disappointment of the tho race He Ho was well we liked JIlted and a 1111 heavily backed but either tho the track or the pace were too much for or him himI him He Ile was wats never neer even dangerous Johnny Hayes haves male a great finish and nud was roundly cheered but what he ho lost at the start was too much of or a n handicap Tom Flanagan who handled han led Long Longboat Longboat boat hoat in the last race said that the In Inv Indian I dlan dian was In no condition at all Flan Flanagan Flanagan agan ngan thought though t Dorando a cinch and bet het that thaL he would win He said Ma May la honeys legs logs were too big for a Mara lara Marathon thou thon runner |