Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-05
TIE PEDESTRIANS.

O'Leary, Hunt and Ssraison fhs Ssassers-
OLeary Wtns the First Mite Amid En-
thusiosfic Cheers =" Heck and Necko-
NIP Gnd Tuck"
Eat precisely SOS O'Clock last evening
the twenty-seyen hour heeland-toe match
was commenced with three starters, In Market
hall, before full house, WILDER, OF Illinois.
oaving failed to appear, and E. Murphy, the
st. Paul pedestrian, having injured himself in
training so as to completely unfit him for the
race. Sidwelrs full brass band furnished the
music.
Mr.. A. Craig acts as referee, and the scorers
are Messrs. c. j. Hurley, NJ. 9. Wood and NJ.
E. Hennessey.
At the start O'Leary took the lead. An easy
jog was maintained until the end OF the
eleventh lap when Hunt pushed forward and
enaeavored TO take first position, but after
ed ea' 'G inso lot the lap he was o fore
again. On the thirteenth lap Hunt was
successful in his endeayor TO pass TO arst
position. As he took II cheers went up from
tne audience. Although closely pushed by
oLeary he kept the lead until the nineteenth
lap mnen oLeary slackened up. At the con-
dashed past Hunt with ASTONISHING sne ed.
scoring the first mile in just eight minutes. In
the meantime StraIton continued an easy walk,
aud was, oil course, several laps In the rear
Upon Inc seventeenth lap OF the second mile
hunt again passed to the front. Squirting"
amid the greatest enthusiasm. was then the
order. Inc band struck upaively tune, which
seemed to animate the pedestrians. Hunt took
the second mile In nine minutes, with
O'Leary close in his tracks, and kept
the lead pluckily until after the fourth
mile nad been marked upon the bulletins.
Inc third mile was made thirty four and one
nait minutes from the start, and nine minutes
added another mile
BY this time Straiton had been left over a
mile. but he kept pegging away.
len miles were marked in just one hour and
lorty.fou seconds. II is now that little
Straiton wakes up and falls into the tracks OF
hunt, who is second, and although nearly
TWO miles behind his opponents he holds
| tenaclously into his place, and seems deter.
| mined 10 make record.
NOW a word respecting the personnel of the
pedestrians. The physique of O'Leary Is
symmetrical. He is somewhat below the
average stature, but shapely and powerful.
his action is admirably easy and graceful.
de glides along the track without effort. His
| step is snort and quick, but steady and strong.
DE evidently has wonderful endurance or
| staying" qualities.
Hunt Is tall, muscular and ''nervy." While
his action is not so easy and graceful as Is
| that of O'Leary, 1t is firm and de-
termined. He is possibly the fastest
in short contests, but apparently
does not possess the endurance OF his contest
ant. His step Is essentially a stride. He
goes swinging around the ring without ap-
parent effort, and will undoubtedly give
O'Lsary plenty Of work.
Stralton Is mere youth and q novice In
heel-and-ioe matches, this being his first ven
| ture. He is powerful, but ignorant OF scIen-
| tiic walking and will probably be extremely
fatigued before the close OF the race.
All the evening the hall was well filled with
| spectators who came and went at their pleas
ure. All seemed satisfied the race was no
hippodrome.
| Mr.. Magee, O'Leary's trainer, has unllsg
ging confidence In his fAvorite. He informed
the GLOBE reporter last evening that he had
been with him in all his big races and he has
| never "gone back on him." Bets found ready
| takers, although odds were offered In favor Of
| OLeary.
From the tenth to the seventeenth mile
| Hunt kept industriously at the heels Of
O'Leary. At IL o'clock the score stood
o 'Leary sixteen miles and fourteen laps, with
Hunt the same; Straiton thirteen miles and
seventeen laps.
| At midnight the score was Oleary twenty
two miles, six laps; Hunt twenty. two miles,
six laps, straiton eighteen miles, six laps.