New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-01-13
THE MYERS-GEORGE RACES.
Interior nth george in The London Telegraph
Dec. 26

From an Irrtsc nth w. O. george in The London telegraph
Dec. 70.
"Sports are carried OH in precisely similar
way with u.s. hut the public do not attend N anything
like such large numbers. meeting III NcW-I ok con-
slGered good one IL 900 people are o rsyeh ABOUT
with Myers ana this thought something wonderful
and quite out of the way The story aOOui 3lO,OOO
changing hands over the mile race is quite an eAaggea
lion II WOULD be the marx to say about $4,000
"In the hafuile with Myers be went of III front,
ana took two yardS lead IN h9 nnSV dy yarus; ne
yard til III the straight for home ana then he turned
rouut in his usual fashion and looked at me all down The
straignt To the winning post. believe that if he
run could do very near min % sec Tor the half
TO twenty yards had he chosen 10 run Out all
tine waY. / never expected 10 Will the hali-lnle,
aud was not disappointed when was beaten.
In the mile felt more hit in my life and
feel confident thai if had been necessary could have
done better tune than my present record OF MN. 1854
sec When started on took the LEAD, aud kept II
ali through. dd not run really hard TN going up the
backretch in the last lap ana hen got 10 me top OF
II up again, and went a an easy pace TIL about
thirty yards from the corner into the straight Tor home
Myers was then close behind, ana catching ana at
once ran just Lard as coad for sixty yards Finding
Myers beaten trottea down the straight 10 the
nnsn: , O.. Tho ,nloos.r.noss ,,o+ ,,a. oroo..d
over the threequarter mile Face do not care 10 refer
TO il very much, the thing was almost amcaDly
settled before LETT NcwYork. Myers aud parted tie
might say about should be the means of disturbing
the pleasant feeling that now exists between Myers and
myself aud the Manhattan Club ana the Moseey Har-
ners. second meeting %is nClS anu !resh race
was definitely liked Tor Thanksgiving Day On the sun
1aE L
showed more or less almost every day In consequence
OF tins could not train, and had not my racing shoes
ON once the whole OF the week Myers went down to
baltimore aud trained there believe he was running al
the eek gained about six pounds during the time.
From what said, and from What his friends said, he
was feeling quite well again. but DO not believe he was
quite mark, because thiuk he was overtraincd
tremendous lot OF men were put on TO clear the track
on tie Wednesday night, and they g0li pretty well
swept for ,he On the pare however, where the
sums rays had not fallen the surface Was as hard as
stone nd slippery. Tlc spikes would not go Ill at all,
but slipped on sharply On the parts where the sun had
thawed tue ground there were many patches with
quite two of soft earth aud loose Stones and my
SHOES al stuck last at times Altogether the track
was in irghtfuly bad condition. ana great cold wind
WAS blowing up tie bacEs;rctch AS the mile, got
Oh pretty well about half mile together. We
went down iuio tie last lap neck neck
and fhcn got The front ter that
wards 10 four yards About fifty yards from home /
Thought would never get 10 the tape at ALL but then
must have been going faster ihan Myers Tor won By
about SIX yards In min 10 acc. think, taking all
the conditions OF the track aud weather into cOsder-
tion that il about equal to n sce II Is not much
slower Just week before hdu trial ana dld mill
'.rhe ten mile handicap eighty laps 10 the dis
lance with twenty two runners. could not tell you
where was finish, but Was God that had got a
place anu aiterWard tbat was second. | firmly
under tac Impression that had Tapped everybody
after tlme aud was ast Oniehcd when was told the
race i firmly OF opinion that Dcany ran
two laps short lie made nye laps III his Three minutes
start and under the impression that passed him
turce tines while IN the last lap lie passed That lett
me and hall laps the good, and yet had
six laps TO go after lie finished. may DC mistaken,
however. / had been out Tor about fortnight making
holiday, and went with the intention only OF beating
The American record ran TO time therefore and beat
the record by 80 seconds. could have done the dis
lance In q minute two less than did. Ny object in
Going over to America was to cdeav or TO beat Myers i'm
spcrsmanlke way, and simply for the honor OF beat
ing him. Ii ho comes 10 England l fear lie wont
any more mile races; lie SAID he would not ana
three quarter mile. think very close together
and II we the three again Ishoud
not ike to say who would Win the rubber IL ID about
10 10 on Myers for the half mile, 10 me for the
mile, and tossup between Us for the threequartcrs."