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Show READY FOR THE $10,000 MARATHON DERBY j New York, April 2. Everything Is In readinese for the 110,000 Marathon derby at the Polo grounds tomorrow afternoon. The nve-lap track Is In excellent condition, which means that unless there Is a particularly heavy rain it will be shipshape for the 2t-mile 2t-mile run.. .. Each of the six. pinner Longboat, the Indian; Dorando, the Italian; Shrubb. (he Englishman; Hayes, tho little New Yorker, who won the English Eng-lish Marathon; - St. Yves, - the New French arrival., and Maloney, the Brooklyn boy, are In the pink ot condition con-dition and ready tor the battle. Each man will have a training tent by the track-side, sixty yards .apart. Over each will fly the rlag of the runners native country. As' this polo grounds is used primarily as a baseball Held. p. description of how lh scene will look tomorrow may be best given a follows: Hayes will have his camp at th home plato with an American flag fluttering in the breeze, while Longboat Long-boat will take his 'stimulants and be rubbed down in a tent at first base over which will, fly a combination of the Dritlfh and Canadian flags. In right field, the Frenchman will have his quarters. Shrubb will be looked after In center field. HU emblem, or course, will be the English flag alone. Dorando will be In left Held with an Italian fla: above h.is quarters. 'Maloney 'Ma-loney with the Irish flag over his tent will also be In left Held The gates of the Polo grounds will be thrown open to the spectators. |