The New York herald., 1879-03-13
TERRIBLE SCENE AT GJLN0RE'S.
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mot seem bothered by it, Now fair hands tender
him handsome flowers, and he carries them around
the track Then Ennis gets like memento. The
nearly level he runs away ana as lap after lap reels
OF. is with him again in the half mile But then he
slows while the little fellow never changes
bis pace, but keeps relentlessly on. No won
der that jog-trotting is coming rapidly into favor
here Judge Elliott the boat builder that had
TODAY the old Volunteer Fire Department men could
be found by the score who, Indian-lkc. would have
started and trotted their ninety miles in eighteen
hours daily for weeks together, aud been none the
worse for it. and certainly old SPORTS performance
squints that way. Take Norman Taylor and spread
his twenty miles in 14o minutes over 24o and does
it not look as though-forty- though he is-he
could keep up the shape by the day?
FORECAST
And how is all this long weeks work coming ont?
Can no conclusion be yet reached to who will win
the battle? What the results thus far? O'Leary
Started away with the lead on Monday and has
been headed. More than this, all men who have
read the figures must have been struck with the fact
that daily. almost hourly. the gap between him and
Hartman was widening, widening, widening until
yesterday he had a round dozen miles in his favor
. good stiff walk in itself for any ordinary man.
Ennis. too has never been near enough to Hartman
20 seem dangerous-if the latter can hold ont.
Now, what kind Of work is this that Rowell is
doing Is it especially fast Is 1t better than he
ever did before Well. let is see At one O'Clock on
Wednesday in the last week of October. 1878. when
sixty hours from the start, he had done 215 miles,
Was he as far along as he was ut one O'Clock
yesterday noon? No, not by twenty-five miles
And yet that week he had made 100 miles in
the first twenty-five hours. which was. just
rs fast as this time. In other words. he
started as fast then and held it for all one
day but in the next day and half instead of merely
doing as WE'LL he actually added twenty-five miles to
his score, while at nine last night it was up to 267
and at midnight to 275. But Wednesday ut midnight
is just half way from one Monday morning to eleven
Saturday night other words, the half over
and what's the pace? Why. 275 miles is just
Oqya,a Of ho at
forcibly to the inference that this man
is run like vanderbt's trainson schedule time. At
one o'clock Thursday noon in the October race he
had scored 299 or 81 miles from Wednesday noon to
Thursday noon. But in the next twenty-four hours
hedropped to 66 miles. II he drops that way before
tomorrow noon and Hartman and Ennis can hold
that pace the ten miles only. Harrmans dehcit, will
be handsomely wiped out. That he will slow some
what both his unusually fast pace thus lar and his
lame foot indicate. ~
But one thing does stand out as, at least. highly
probable. Not whether Hartman can hold out
That is not it. But that Ennis will go as far the
last three days of this week he did the first. And
what did he do the first? Why. 255 mikes. Well
twice that makes $40 miles. Will that win
the race? Barney Aaron says 4S0 will. The
best yet done in public anywhere is OLeary 8
But If 5iO will not make Ennis win, il his record
goes for anything he will run enough on Saturday
to make good his $40 at least man who skates $50
miles day, who has walked 100 miles in eighteen
hours and who runs easily as Ennis and looks as
fresh at this late day will do ugly work on his last
day when n ras m his ITS
which from appearances thus far Rowel sccr.
tainly cannot count on-he need not as
has been darky limited here tonight fear pepper III
his eyes the Engshman possibly may. But ii on
Saturday evening lie is anywhere near the front hc
will as the Beaverwycks did at the Centennial when
thew were dead used up, still manage to beat the
London Rowing Club by eighteen inches. Some of
the yells in this house this week have been almost
for the last three days would hesitate moment with
his answer il asked who would win, were the race
suddenly extended to fourteen days in all or till next
week Saturday night.
ENNIS CHANCES.
1t would be Ennis race beyond all manner of
doubt No lame feet. snnkcn cheeks. this sturdy,
splendid man ran lightly last night rs half the
milo men in the Scottish Athletic meeting on this
very track the other night. That lie will run hard
chances BY then seems equally sure: If Har-
Yirnan's stamina will only eelic his looks,
it he only did do 500 recently, said and do
1t now II he is in better condition than he OH
Monday then he should win this race But Ennis Is
built by nature for sterner work than he and in q
terrible battle like this, wherc-worst OF all-one
can't get decent sleep. his great vitality and thor
oughly proved staying power are sure to stand him
The few minutes lost ct twenty-thrcc minutes past
eight last evening. when the crash came. will not
alter the total distance over mile. The smoke and
confined air in the room and the protracted and in
tense excitement elements likely to toll less on
Ennis than the slender Hurrinan, and the lack OF
public sympathy, ungcnerous though 1t be. in way
helps Rowell. Be the result Of this wonderful
whatt may il there are even two men on the track by
ten miles, the interest will not abate while ii
there three. it will bring fit ending to by all
odds the most remarkable athletic contest
in America. One sign that Rowells lead will be less
than now, is the much greater frequency with which
he sucks the sponge and keeps eating what
these early in the week when his checks
were fat and ruddy. But they thin now. and his
eyes likewise grow noticeably heavy. Should slim
''Brother Jonathan Hartman outstay him after all
and win this arduous battle there will shout go up
int in that old garden that will snSanser its great 1 roof
broad hint in this direction Let him not overlook
this
THE GARDEN AT MIDNIGHT
As the hour of midnight approached the throng in
the garden reached its greatest strength There
were no less than 5000 persons present.
from the falling Of the disastrous balcony s
on the Madison avenue side. but the others re.
of the great of humanity the shouts. clapp ngs
and the blaring of the band kept not only the at
mosphere but also the solid structure pulsatng ike
The enormous heart OF an antediluvian Titan.
The scene was not only wonderful, sub
time and magnetic, 1t was terrible. One could not
help pondering on the latent power in this vast
throng and the possible effect of its passions should
they he aroused in direction and break forth by
a sudden and common impulse. The applause was
fncessant. The moment that II died away Mt ex-
tremy of the amphtheatre il began ut the other and
IL was curious to note how the sound would follow
the favored pedestrian around and around, some
times for consecutive laps.
Hartman made his 26lst mile at 1oh 25m. 3os.
having been of the track 37m. 30s. He had obtained
about hour and half OF repose in Ave hours, and
looked fresh and cheerful. frequently men would
jump up the seats full OF the ntoxicstion OF
citemcnt. aud perhaps of something else quite as
potent. and yell. Three cheers for Charlie Harri-
mani"
"well. Hartman" would be asked, Coin to beat
'em?' and then good natured laugh would run the
round of the amphitheatre.
All three OF tho men still on the track. They
seemed to travel with earnest gravity betokcnin.
close attention TO business. Ennis ut the end
Of his 245th mile at Oh. Som. 45s. having for a
good part OF it, He went off on his 24Gth and rested
AIM. 15s
NEW ESerASp's sox.
Hartman and Rowe are engaged in interest
ing displays Of rivalry the former keeping for lap
after lap quite close TO the heels of the latter
bobbing gait less elastic and much laborcd
than ever before. still, his countenance had n
seemed to stretch out longer and longer. and
people gazcd Mt him and wondered more and more
that 30 much power should reside In so gaunt and
tank frame There is always real American twinkle
of humor in his eye, such might have emanated
from sam Sick. OF Sckville, when perfccting a sale
of his marvellous clock TO a Blue Nose. No incident
seems TO disturb him, although can