The New York herald., 1879-03-15
Closing Hours Of the Great Struggle
81 @ for the Ashley Belt. (
ROWELL NOT IN FINE FORM
The Chicago Man Almost as Fresh
as When He Started. ai
HARTMAN DOING WE'LL
The Betting Still in Favor Of the
Sturdy Engshman.

ROWELL 43O MILES.
ENNIS - 4OS MILES.
HARTMAN 800 MILES.
Steadily through the long morning yesterday
Rowell had Lecn attending to his score, and tho
figures kept going up. Tho air clearer than last
night. also little cooler, and Rowel marked his
close watch Oh the Thermometer by donning cap aud
cardigan and mufiing his neck, even in this mild
weather. in the fashion so thoroughly English His
face did not look particularly tired Nothing in his
told of the 100000 steps he has taken since
one O'Clock last Monday morning. The blisters be-
meath his insteps seemed to understand the
situation. Doubtless they had something up
on the result for they certainly did not
appear to bother him. There the
quiet. expectant. defercntial look--his face held
trihe upward. as if to keep his chest out and
show his handsome profile all at once His mag
niAcent legs. stoutcr and plumper than ever stood
out like the quarters Of Kentucky or Longfellow
some famous steeplechaser while tho feet went
as firmly and squarely about their work any
day this week. The doctors have had him feverish
and purplelpped and going into sudden decline.
like Hartmann but there's just about as much re-
semblauce between him and Hartman as between
Sancho Panza and Don Quxote. Say what You will.
hope what you like do not think that in the
terrible struggle of the next few hours this
British marvel is starting in tired. Atkinson well
said that he brought him here expecting to have to
beat $50. and certainly it looked like it. All the
morning long the tally board talking. Tho 500 he
retired on at ten minutes before A. M have gone
up ten. twenty. thirty-yes. and now. at twenty
eight minutes Of two p NJ up bubbled little chcer.
Then the crowd caught it, and passed it briskly
along Look at tie board and you'll sc, what il
means. Two mines go out at one end and up 20
two os. But what's the matter over there? The
crowd begins to litter, then to laugh out loud and
the tally man looks confused. What's the trouble?
Why, as he now has it. instead of 800, as minute
ago. it reads only 800. He did not to have laid
in stock Of fours Maybe he thought they wouldn't
need them. Maybe he's been betting his little stake
on tho distance to be covered. This young man
must wake up. And where's Rowell? As soon rs he
saw the once up-for he watches the score like
fox-he turned into his little cottage The two as
sistans in low caps. with stars top. step promptly
aside. and. passing in behind him. close the door,
It Itisrstonishng how quietly they keep their own
counsel in that same ten-foot cabin. When Rowell
steps in. at window. door and skyligi,t shut,
while the white curtain. which obstructed peering
eyes. is now moro tightly drawn. Right here in this
dense crowd. all watching this little fellows every
movement. no one yet knows what is goingon in
there. The gaspipe hastily constructed along the
front is strung with fragrant flowers. a wreath and
basket adorn the roof and the pillar close by still
further picturesque with these always welcome little
companions. Not one but three horseshoes are
strung along the door. The tea things inside stand
ever ready and on duty. Blouses and undershirts,
cardgans and all the paraphernala of the pedestrian
are scattered here and there. !.
ENNIS APPEARS.
But bark! there's a cheer away over by wonder
little house. Ennis is OUT" Yes there he is and
he comes along down the track his brown sweater
his white shirt looks business like il not par
ticularly handsome. He isn't running any now only
walking. His coming on just as Rowell retired
shows that the managers understand themselves.
But the walk is good one. brisk and strong good
stiff four and quarter miles hour. Who's that
fat little man who has joined him aud walks round
and round the track? Indeed, lively companion
occasionally the track Ia no mean help
to man whose mind is on such strain "Ha
there's H .rriman out now tool" "He's played out'
says some one. Is he? Well he does look So and
picks his way along like cat picket fence But
pretty soon he warns to it, and forgetting aches and
pains. the cheers Of the crowd-for everybody likes
him-send him along at almost his best pace of other
days. And even he stays at his four and quarter to
the gate receipts. Now the best cheer Of tho
morning for Ennis, after quito turn at four and
quarter. quickcns the pace to minute and thirty to
tho lap, just i've miles hour and this witho ut
running step. Never was his work watched with
kccner interest. For You can't get crowd to under.
stand that when Rowells lead of 25 miles on Thurs
day night yesterday became 81 % and once nearly 30
Ennis was not really losing ground for the fact Is
It's simply Rowells inning now. and the Chicago
man is not on the. track. But he's on it now, and
going at sswinging pace. Only walking though he
is he is cutting down tho ugly gap till already il is
back to twenty Six and it won't bc long, II Rowcll
will stay in. until it's below twenty Ave.
And here's fun. Hartman, who is full of H. has
quietly padded along until lie has got himself Just
whcro he likes to be- about ton feet behind the Ili
nos mans heels. Now they settle to it, and as thoy
spring along. neither making nor losing inch the
rail along the inside is just string Of hands
Tho biggest OF these hands belong to the Broadway
squad. who. strung along in a row near Roweli's
cottage, are putting in their lunch hour in n way
most dcghtul to contemplate. Now their favorite.
after breaking into q run and circling two or
settles down again and is handed exquisite Gala
iiIy Nesting among fresh flowers. The tour win DO
only. Rowelrs bccn In an hour Wonder, IL he II be
out shortly Tho band strikes up All are OK
There he is! On. how stir. 't was intense agony
when he caiire out OF that place. says man.
his foot. The moment no puts IL down ho takes 10
up again. Ho IL evidently not yet limbcred up.
aud as hc makes his way up the north side. not
jogging at all. but only walking. his right hand
with tho handkerchief IN It, swinging far out behind
him. he shrugs his right shoulder up two inches or
more every other STEP like u man who Is losing a |
molar. while his lett foot turns in moro than the
other
ALL THREE TOGETHER
Thcrc'll he music now shortly when those three
get together. All. it's comingi Tho little "Sawcd
or has shaken on the pain ana is chasing tho other
two hard with hundred-foot gap to cover before nc
catche, them lie has covered IL and now in NJ Iar.
rimans heels, and he at Ennis Here's rare in dead
earnest. Ii reminds you of tho four abreast last
Monday morning at tho start. Tho famous little |
string are playing for points. RoweIl wants TO got
on Ennis heels; Hartman won't lot him, hut stnvs
right In between them. The Cambridge man, ioilcd
trcs deal. He hops suddenly MP beside Harri-
man and struggles to get in between him and fbo |
leader. ''No go. says the 'ladies' Charlie" ..We
know those little games down in Mainc too; give ma
snmefhinn freah." We'll. here it cnmes s,ri,ni,.r