, 1879-03-14
An Immense Popular sympathy
Pulling Hard for Ennis.
That Pedestrian Walking Like q Hero
and Raising Much Hope.
Ho Passcs Hartman, md Goes Eight
MIles Further tl,an Rowcll.
Hartman Now Walking to saVa Distance
md Mako O Fortune.



Specsal pl.pa!ca to Tia Tribune.
New YonK, Aarch 13.-Tllcre was further
change today lit the status oE thu contestants
for the Ashley belt, but no change apparently /
10 tho Interest nnd excitement OF tile thousands
who thronged the Garden through tic duy and !
evening. With ono Chicago man
out Of tho race, tt now looks as
though another, the sturdy Ennis, /
might be IN at the front Saturday. This gain for
Elnis, at'u tic partial giving way ot Aarrnians
has thrown tic betting into great CONSERVATION.
The amount Ut hedging dono stnco yesterday
morning has rarely becn witnessed during the
progrcss of race, md at'll It is considered any
body'a race, Tor Howell Il said to DO
THoTrtNo LAME,
and Ills collapse would bo no surprsc, after
tl,at Of O'Lcary. John Ennis, WHO nccds tic
nonoy badly, Is ID far way to realize q snug
fortuna from hts weeks work, a'Yl is tonight
IL better trim than either of Ills rivnls' All day
Hartman 97adunlly but surely dropped bc-
Lind, Until the ttirtccn-nl'lo gap which
separated hn tFotn Rowctl ut l
o'clock IN tlo morning had widcncd
to thirty miles, anu even Enuls' WHO f'ad been
twenty miles betllnd htm at d. M, not only
caught up With, but passed him. Dy o'clock
In the cVonlng lnrrlman's traincrs Wero ready
to acknowledge that his 1uturc Efforts would 20
to savc gate-money, and tliat alter making 930
miles he would tako a long rest to prcparo
h hun or Tue @n's rspsnnE no ,s' t IN fa swo o. uays &
havo TIC knowledge TINT II ho docs 1t,
At LEAST $4,000
will be the reward Tor Ills exer-
ttons. a 8:l8 o'clock, havlng completed
his 32oth mile, Hartman left tho
track pretty thoroughly uscd-up 'nan, aud had
hardly thrown himstlf oil Ills bed before llc was
buried in tho most profound sunbcr. 11e is
not sick, and his teet and leEs aro In perfect
order, hut le llas becn abc to eat M solid 1ood
since the beginning OF the match. AS hir.
'Lathrop, Ills tratncr, saya, "He Inns taken
nothing but s1op." There was
AN EXCITING SCENE
'ato Id the AFTERNOON, When Aowell atita Ennis
mode squirt, cnch trying to olltrun the other
Rowell has tried to worry Ennis us he
DID oLcary, by kccp!ng close to Ills
hccls hour after hour, but With llttfu
success. Ennis kept on his even way,
aside from an occasional cood-naturcd
squirt. Ho stuck to tlc tracE with uncqualcd
pcrsnac1ty, md as result had e'gl!ty-ve MILES
to show for hlH twenty-four llours' work at d.
m. Rowcll, fu tic sano time, muao eoVeuty-
scyon, and Hartman hal fallen US 10" rs afty-
five. Bill Rowo'l was twonty-ilye miles ahead,
md
pTsrosRD TO TAKE IT RATHER LE1suREIY
Rowell lcft thp tEAck at II ,o'e2rk, Ntfbe f{{la
OF ILLS a5oth mile. anu went to bed fos long
rest. lie, too, with all hist bulldog pluck, Is
having hard tit,c and ts auderlnS
much pain from h's left leg. which
ia much swollen. His appetite is, however,
good; hc cuts heariily and sleeps well. The
bcttIng last evening was 100 TO twenty TINT he
wins tho match. At the Same time, It
was 100 to hvo against Hartman, and
thsco to one against Ennis. Ennis, meanwhile,
wns doing spleudIdly aud covering h'tnHeil with
glory. During the evening, whilo bis cotnpot~
ftora sIcpt, q Honest John II tra,n1cl steadily
aro,,r1 tht. tr.pk railing nm tho miles. anil In.
| vor,nb,v runniuv the tazt Inn os two of zach
onc.
rsS1s MADE THE Dasr FORTY MILES ON RECORD
for that stago Of a sir days contest this OVEN
!ug between 10, when he completed Ills a9lst
| mile, apl lO:l1 o'clock, WIEN hu ended
! h,a r3tst miIr Durfur tbls ttmn he
a",,. .aa,,5 +,no,,tr'o,,a n,sn,,... ,r1
oo's tes'ou t"o'tt5.o"o '''"ua,e ""a
h!tY'lonr SECTIONS, hsaKl'ie MS actual Walking
| time Tor the forty rnftcs eight hours, twenty
eight minutes and forty-six seconds. uu In f!ae
cnrditior urt n,ta hcnrtiIv. u,s trrt, t,n mt
ssa',h," tt,,, T., 4,,o s,oht"st mn, hi. ,o,s show
~ - 'a,,,. i1ts t'os j.. .s,,t ,,.s,, ~ =
,.,. % ~. ...a"..s;,,x, H., ~ ,,,,,." ,xh, So
natufa 10 st'enetnca h'"'' 1s 'nose "''o s'o
him ~
CONSTANTLY MuNon1No
ch,nks og bread anll bccf aro realy to believe,
1yh", rn,,f. ~, h,a acore IN m s,s ,n11ca -,
WHEN E'u's TAU "ls eeotu ~ ~ o,e "ie'' ~, u.
within seventcen miles OF tue Eneltslitnal'' tto
hitter suddenly appeared upon the traek'
broke into dogtsot, md began
roo,fng IN tha Inns rnnIf,tv. I'm IN th,s lin.
uo"a'1 h.1 ~a.,aIt vs ,.,,,r. ,wnr.y,.1g,t MN.
no"e" "ao iee'cu aso 'io't's' '"s Tss4t.
utes, md torty-eight tseeonds, while Ennis had
rested ono hour, forty-thrce minutes, und four
teen seconds, takrn ia two stops tho only ones
m,1s not-osn a. m nr1 II n, m. Mr.. At
ninaur, Se'aT"d iS,at IT. Rnwrli nptwith.tauint
H., w", a.. .h,iafrra ,,nnn bIs frst. was
'a' "D'e' ,',,.t",., 1F ~ l 49,
IN pErfEh CONDITION
than during the first two days q the struggle
und tllat he would run hts last il1ty miles with
out q stop.
At ! o'ct',ck the contestants bad oil retired Il
rest TIE sc0ro then stood: Rn~cll, :30 miles
Ennis, D35 miles; narrau,an, aa5 niles.
YKsrsnpAY MORNING,