The Portland daily press., 1882-03-04
RoWELL RETIREs.
The English Champion Frankly
Acknowledges Defeat.
HAzAEL STILL MAINTAINING HIS
LEAD.

nOurS tnlS morning Une seven WdlkcrS conoin-
ued their circuit of the garden without any In
cident. Hazael kept up his lead and seemed de-
termined not to lose without a struggle. Short
ly before 80 he retired and remained Off fifty
three minutes After resuming he did not stop
until after o. when he went into his tent for q
few minutes, but he soon came out again. His
trainers have been supplying him with stimu-
lants, and to some this seems to be a bad out
look for tomorrow.
Rowell seemed to have the hearty sympathy
of the spectators, but the story of his drinking
vinegar by mistake for beef tea did not seem
to meet with general belief At 1928 this morn
ing he came upon the track after rest OF two
hours and seventeen minutes, which did not
seem to refresh him. After travelling three
miles he retired to his tent for over an hour
Again coming out he added another two miles
to his score, and then at $3.50 again went into
his tent
Fitzgerald during the morning had been
keeping to his schedule and had rested but a
little over twenty-eight minutes from 2 O'Clock
until o. He was fresh looking, and many
knowing ones predict that Saturday night be
will not be far. if any, behind the leader.
Hart has been going on very evenly.
Noremac is steadily pushing his way along,
going off occasionally, and this for very short
periods. He is one of those whom some be-
Iieve to be dangerous man, and there will be
much surprise if he does not make good
showing at the finish.
At 9.58 there was slight commotion around
Rowell's tent. In second it spread over the
garden that the little Englishman was retiring
from the race and in a moment the spectators
had gathered around his tent where he was
found dressed and surrounded by his trainers
and was picking his way through the crowd to
the street. He had not been on the track since
his retirement at 5.3S, when he had gone into
his tent with 415 miles and 660 yards to his
credit.
Busby went up to the scorers stand and di-
rected that Rowells name be taken from the
board. While doing so Hughes was just pass
ing the stand and as he heard the order his
eye lighted up, his features broke into broad
smile, and he stopped as though going to exc,
cute a clog dance. GIVE gained my point and
broke him up" said Hughes. And so he had
indeed accomplished his end by forcing Row
ellis retirement, who, for the first time has to
suffer the humiliation of being beaten by a
man who sacrificed his chance of winning for
the purpose of pushing his champion SO hard
in the first part of the race that he could not
possibly go through until the end. Nature
could stand no more. Hughes had pushed
Rowell the first day and compelled him to
cover $50 miles in a little over twenty-five
hours, and had kept the strain up on succeed
ing days until Rowell could not possibly &C
much further without succumbing
When Hazel had completed his 490th mile
he went into his tent, where he remained forty
minutes. When he returned he was some
what stiff, but soon struck out in his peculiar
lcpe
Manager Duryea says Rowell went on a
drive in the park this noon. Rowell owns uI
to being beaten and is not making any excuses
AT 2.19 Hazel finished 500 miles.
At 511, Hart having AGA miles and one lar
to his credit, went into his cottage. Noremat
accelerated his pace somewhat up to Har t's
score, took third place and held 1t by two miles
| when Hart, at 5.25 came back upon the track.
| During the afternoon Sullivan, the victoriou:
prize fighter, visited the garden and was soon
| the centre of an admiring circle of friends
Hazael, after completing his 515 miles. at 5.11
retired to his cottage. Noremac, Hughes
Fitzgerald and Hart were on the track at
o'clock. Hazael was seventy miles ahead o1
Hughes, and the latter still had eighty miles tc
cover in order to come in for share of the
gate money, but he only lacked one mile of be-
ing even with Sullivan, and the Saratogian
was taking rest.
Noremac was two miles of the colored con;
testant. Hughes was doing excellent work
surprising even his friends who know his in
domidable spirit by the marvellous manner in
which he had recuperated within the proceed
ing hours. When interviewed on the subject
one of his trainers said that the miracle was
due to the efforts of Ed Plummer, who had ap
piled some mysterious liniment to the rheumatic
limbs of Hughes. He is all right now" said
his trainer-eating everything as we'll as the
best of them" He has done well to-day, ,'but he
will do better tomorrow. He was glad when
he neard Rowell was out OF the race, because
he knew he had played out the Englishman
and that.he would have to quit sooner or later :
He thinks that he is sure of something bet
ter than gate money. Plummer the man who
restored him, when asked about Hughes said
"Just you wait and see, I'll have him ahead oi
| Hart by tomorrow night" Some of the
friends of Hughes are quietly making an efforl
in the direction of a subscription for his bene-
| fit 1t is claimed that as Hughes by knocking
Rowell out of the race saved the betting men
| they should make up purse for him. Hughes
| was making lively time around the trabk al
| 6.15, when he came up to Sullivan's record o.
| 446 miles. AT 6.29 p. m. Hughes had made hi,
| 447th mile and the two names were reversed
on the black board
Between and o'clock Noremac led Fitz
| gerald a hot race for several miles. By the
| persistent manner in which Fitzgerald held
| himself at the heels of the Scotchman it was
| evident he had began to entertain suspicion
| that he had not sure thing for second place
| At tseventeen minutes past five Hazael disap
| deared behind the door of his cottage and mo-
| again appear till 6.30 His score at that time
was 515 miles, while Fitzgerald had 495 miles
| leaving gap of only 20 miles. On his reap
| pearance Hazael was presented with basket o.
| flowers of colossal dimension. Fitzgerald ano
| Noremac fell in behind Hazael and the three
| ran around the track in this order for seyera
miles. When Sullivan came out at O'Clock
| he found Hughes miles and one lap anead o.
| him, and he set himself bravely at the task O.
| filling up the gap. During the day and even
| ing there were constant changes in betting fol
lowing the changes on lthe blackboard which
| showed the varying fortunes OF the pedestri
| ans. Early in the evening the name O.
| Hughes was off of most of the book maker
| bulletons and two or three of them were no
| trying to do any business at all. Figures wert
| offered by book makers at O'Clock as follows
| To Win Names First or Sec
| l6 to Fitzgerald. to
| n fo