Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-01-31
THE EVENING STAR.
Hughes, Unexpccted Hea,.

BIZ CaRRIgs OFF TRE o'LxARr BELr AND 81 10,
With SCoKE TWO Mills BEYOND S0w sLLs
BEST
For the benefit OF those interested the results
CT the SIX days walking mach in New York
last week are briefly summarized by the Herald
as foilows: Hughes covered Sos miles, 3 Iaos an
los yards NOW the best on reeordl In 14i hours
~ minutes and 20 seconds: out 566 niles 65
ysrdS-RoNeiiS record-HugheS covered In Is,
hours, 30 minutes and 21 seconds or ABOUT 80
hours ahead OF RoWell. The track In the Arnerl-
can Institute was much slower than that In
Agricultural Hall, London. where Roseli ran
Ills great race. In each OF these two bald
ings the track was or earth, laid On boards
nut Inc English track WAS made sp-i3Gg
by SubStratum of tan bark, VIII e
that used by Hughes was simply OF earth. AMI
became hard anu unfolding. Fortunately his
rect stood the severe test, but IL served 10
break up his dangerous competitor Iowatd
whose feet were in a terrible condition when he
IetlTed 4 little beyond 500 miles. Agricultural
Hall is In winter d cold cherries buIiiinrd41
geTous TO the health OF pedestrian racers: hut
The American destitute represents rhe other
extreme. During the late race the afr was moi
ana dry and folled by clouds OF tobacco smoke
the feature OF the race-even of more SlgaIfi-
canoe Than hughes records Aloart's uueS-
PeCttG powers. This was his first sIt2 hour
race" and the fact that he-a novice-easlly
covered 55H miles and al the close was strong
frfsh anG in perfect condition forcShadOws him
rs the coming man, barring accidents
THE LAST TEN HOURS OF THE STRUGGLE.
me places u tue men being pracrieluy Assured
were devoid Of the interest when always At
t3ches 10 a close race but the punlic cane 10
IFS as Inuch "a the show. There was the finest
walking ever seen 10 be seea here, and
there was the excitement OF finish % look
forward To. and the crowd sWClC1 yl5ibiy and
rapidly all through the day. II vas evident
enough, as the afternoon went on, that Hughes
vas the OILY man Oh the track who was walk
ing with any other object than TO watch his
own place Ia the ranks and TO keep I'D toe
pubic interest. Hughes was walking to beat
The record, aid he looked as II he would have
~
record had been few miles less. He could not
chaDge IT, however. ut Is purely peculiarly
matter With the walkers, now" said Referee
curtis. "The others can none OF them beat the
record. and It's too late for any one OF them 10
catch up With any other one, and they can't
afford to strain or injure themselves for moth
ing. They're only walking now for the gate
money That they were emlnenJly success
tul In this hot unpraiSworthy scheme
was abundanlly shown by the, crowd that
quarter past nine o'clock there were probably
hTteen hundred persons in the hall VINO could
not by any chance get position from which
they could see the track. There were probably
seven thousand persons in the hall. and every
inch or space around the track was filled by a
lostItug. yelling, whiStliAg crazy set of pc lple
who were entirely beside themselves at the
spectacle or an exhausted sick man lmp.ns
around the track IN agony, dressed In dirty
tights, with an American flag (he being an
i1l>hinah} hanging on his iert shoulder, While a
SQuad OF boys ID mimic uniform carried a ban
the hero OF the hour hObblei along for mile
Willie the crowd appauded him as Il he had
beHe6tted mankind in some way, or rather
as they would not have done II he had taken
that line IL life. Brian G.. McSwyney presented
him with the belt as he started on the last
lap OF his 56Sth mile, and the champion was too
tired TO put 1t on, and Accordingly McSwyney
carried IL around 10 his tent while the boys fol.
lowed and the crowd cheereG itself hoarse. Vlnt
at lutte before half-past nine O'CLOCK finished
his 550th mile. and was led away TO his tent
amid more cheers Albert had finished Just be-
fore with 55S miles to the good, aud was carried
away amid more cheers. The crowd was liter
ally In Cheerful hunor and were prepared to
applaud anything AS there was nothing more
10 applaud. they scattered slowly. While they
We're eDgageu ia this sensible pursuit. Hughes
stuDg by some unaccountable CAD fly, came ont
again, walked with McSWyney for one lap, ran
with Ol.eary for another and seemed TO be bent
on starting for another race. IL was cakes and
ale for the crowd, which continued TO cheer
until the champion finally retired, which he did
after making three laps on his 569th Intle. che
time was half past nine. Albert made 55S miles:
Nint, $780, hfohne, 500: and Howard SIS.
HOW THE SPOII.S WILL BE DIVIDED
The New York Sun to-day SayS:-Thn win