| Show q c E ID z t In J mt f o DOPE DO j 1 By W W A McGARRY GARRY M Written for lor The Examiner J u Now comes a story that Salt Lake represented by Hardy Downing man mangy manager manager ager of tho the Manhattan Athletic club JG is after of the great STeaL Marathon Stars of o tho the country Including theono the theono theono ono time famous Johnny Johnn Hayes ono of tho principals In the Olympic games causing the severing of Ath AUt loUo lello relations with Great Britain fol tol following 01 lowing lowin the tho affair of oC 1908 Dorando and St Yves for the purpose of pull pullIng Ing g off of a n marathon Taco race in Sail Sall Lake Hayes Hayos recently won a match on the coast thereby surprising n a number of followers of or tho the cinder track Dor Dorando Dorando ando has been doing doln fairly well all along although his record Is replete with collapses collapse between cn the Iho twentieth and rind twenty mile St Yves Yves pro pronounced pronounced Sant since his killing lu ill the tho first big marathon Taco raco held beld In New Now York city when ho lost to Hayes Dorando Longboat and nu nit numerous numerous others In tho flint first half of or tho the thorace thor therace race r CO and finally shook off of Alfred the great English profession proCession professional proCessional al runner ninnor only when the latter col collapsed collapsed ol lapsed has not shown so much class An authority on Tun run running ning has been quoted as saying saing that no man should run more than three marathons a year yet Jet most of or the professionals and a good tood many of or the amateurs before the public today are arc running well up above aboe a dozen a year The Tate result is sure to ho be a breakdown sooner or later yet et somo some of the tho mon coca running today ase show showing showing ing marvellous en endurance durance coming back after collapsing in a previous s sr race raco r o and romping homo bonne the winner a week or two later While Johnny Hayes Hares was never famed for speed ho he is said to be chock full of endurance his Lis admirers and backers claiming that twenty five miles or the marathon distance of cir twentysix miles three hundred and eighty eight five yards Is not long Ions enough for him Dorando has moro morn speed than Hayes but seems t to tn lack Jack the endurance of oC the American In St Yves all the dope hooks books are valueless When tho the Frenchman started in the tho first big bi marathon derby in New hew York YorkI I everyone expected to see sec him drop dropout dropout out before tho the tenth mile InHO but ut ho he kept I steadily plugging along and finally finall lost all his competitors St Yves uses I a short Jerky jerr stride and runs with without r out t the slightest semblance of or what Is 15 considered form Corm by b experts but butin butin butin in spite of or this he often OneIL manages to tot t bring homo the cash cashI I The case of oC Alfred In runs run ning Ing bears lears a 3 strong resemblance to toI I that of o Joe Gans Cans in hi pugilism is over 40 years of oC age aC but in m spite of this is probably the best ten tea mils I runner living When lieu in his prime primo j ho was invincible up to twelve miles hut but an Injured ankle generally causes him to weaken at aL about the tho thirteenth mile roUe BO so that he until recently con confined conI confined I fined his efforts to twelve miles 5 He Hp holds tho the worlds record for tho the ten tenmile mile mHo distance o of ot 50 O minutes and 10 seconds which has never Deer been oven even evenI I approached at alone one limo timo lucid hold all records from rom ono one and miles up to twelve miles but his age ase is beginning to tell on him and tho tiro great Englishman Is gradually giving way to younger rivals A marathon raco in fn this state between a number of oC good men n en in fn tho the business should draw dra well and It II is to bo ho hoped that Downing In his efforts to towards towards towards wards arranging tIlt the meat Commenting on tho the CJ cuso being offered by Battered Bat Dat Nelson for his defeat by br Ad Wolgast that ho he hollad Lad had taken Wolgast lightly and nd was not ot In as good condition as a he ho should have been an eastern sporting writ writer er says Nelsons olsons cry Cr is the tho same samo that has passed d down don the tho line for years cars and years years and It is tho the neatest excuse ho bo could offer But still sUll some somo sort sorl of or an nn excuse is better belter than lImn none noue in his Opinion I Nelson was In n shape all right but ho met his master the tho only real excuse Bat Dat never was the tho real championship goods AJ Al Hereford is right when ho says ho was the poor poorest poorest est cat excuse for a champion that the lightweight division over had The Dane Dale was simply another Joe Joo Grim Grimand Grimand and ho no er had bad tho the class of ot Joe JoeI I Gans Cans or Frank Erne His Hia HI tactics in tho tiro ring wore were the rough wrestling hitting ones which could never bo ho bo admired admired by a n lover of or tho real box boxing leg ing in game gamo amo Nelson was a bruiser nIl all allAI nIlAI AI Al Hereford was formerly the man manager manager ager ngar of or Joe Cans Gans when wIlen tho the Baltimore negro lightweight was mowing down every lightweight Ight that could be ho in induced Induced inducted ducted to t meet him ana na Incidentally setting getting his trade mark on a number much heavier heler men who tangled up with him Hereford Is acknowledged an expert as a n Judge of or boxers and his opinion seems to be he the tho same sarno as that of o unprejudiced f ed critics all over oer tho the country countr Nelson was really nothing noth nothing ing but another Toe loc Grim depending on bruto brute strength and endurance to I win Tho The pity of o It Is h that tha Young Corbett did di leave leae the 1 IC went nc I alono alone as many sportsmen believe that Olat had the tho durable Dane ever eel mot up with tho the conqueror of Terrible I Teddy Todd McGovern when the former formel was in his prime Nelson would have havo never noYer been boon champion Mention of or Joe Grim brings to mind tho the fact that until a few days ago tho the iron tron jawed Italian had not been boon heard from for some time lime Recently Recent Recently ly however a dispatch from Australia stated that Grim had gone gono Insane lusane apparently from the terrible beatings to which ho he had b been n subjected in his bis numerous encounters with heavy heavyweights heavyweights weights in this country countr While Grim was In his prime he surely surel had tho the corner orner on ability to stand tand punish punishment ment Sailor Burl Burke e of oC Brooklyn claimed to have lInc knocked out Grim Grimon on one ono occasion but this was Tas denied by b Grim Grint and anti fro mall that could bo ho I learned of tho the affair at tho tiro tine time it happened was only onh a joke on Grim pulled off of by h the officials of or the bout Perhaps the greatest pummelling I Grim ever eyer any m other man for that matter was on the occasion of at athis his with Bob when I tho the lanky lank Cornishman was in his hla prime Fitzsimmons went into the ring determined to put an end nd to Grims boasts lint hat he hc had never noor been boon knocked out After Fitz had knocked tho the Italian down seventeen times In Inthe inthe the first round however several I times sending him clear through tho the ropes on to the tho heads of the specia spectators spectators tors and Grim had come up each I lime time with whit n a twisted expression that I did dill duty for fOI a smile Fitzsimmons is reported to have backed ed off of with a alook alook alook look of or wonder on his freckled freo lod coun countenance and mid yelled to his handlers If IC yeo yeve got ota a a hax h Ill knock im hout haul but bul Hi wont break my m bloody I ands on ois pad HId |
