The sun., 1888-11-30

At the end Of the fourth day of the six
day race tho battle Is between Dan Herty,
the sturdy Irish boy from Boston and
George Littlewood, the English champion,
whose heart Is as stout as his legs,
which is saying a good deal. The pros
poets for great rnco between the two leaders
are brilliant They load the others by many
miles and reel Off lap after lap, doEeing each
other like twin shadows as they spin around
the sawdust elllpse. Although Herty continues
to hold slight lead over Littlewood. the
friends OF the Englishmen declare that he is
only bidlng his time, and that his running dur
ing the past twenty-four hours has been
mainly influenced by desire to place Il
large bet on himself Mt odds OF two to
one or better, but the willy ookmakers
arc hard fish to be caught In any net. and in
nearly all the betting in the Garden and up
town hotels Littlewood is the favorite at about
even money These are tho tactics the Eng
lishman pursued at Philadelphia about year
ago. when he gradually wore down all his op-
ponents, and by running constantly for fifteen
hours, ran into first place. In his race at Madi-
son Square Garden last February, when Albert
won and made his record OF 62l miles. Little
wood went two days with sprained thigh; and
the sck Gn sysadd at 1 os% at e. his
and says :" All right" with such a confident air
that ho will give the EngIishman the race OF
bis life. George Macdonald. his trainer, is of
bis I Charge is s. defeated Herty has i always
made his best performances on the las, days of
race. and his admirers say TINT the English
man will encounter his equal for gamenesS
when he attempts to run him down.
AT O'Clock yesterday morning Herty led
to SIX miles at noon. LittlewHod then set out
to overhaul the leader, and mile after mile was
took advantage of Littlewood's absence from
the track for twenty minutes to break into Il
The score at r NJ when Littlewood re-
newed his tramp was: Herty 42O; Littlewood
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Ms f;, s1 Hssy SsFs ss heels
The old Garden held great throng at 9
o'clock ga. and d when % %Herty T completed bis 425th
or the others who are battling for a share Of
the gate receipts and to obtain which they will
have to go 595 miles by 10 o'clock to-m morrow
the others. but he, has relinauished aiI hopes of
winning His trainer said sadly: His sick
do 50 yet Il he had Littiewood's heart" George
on an he
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race for good. having been forced by sickness
to ss5s ssGnsnaes to
O'clock he wiz start q an et1erlpt % run 70 100
Is as years old, Is in the race to win bet Of
$500 that be viii cover 800 miles in the six days.
ahead Of his rival LlttieSood. His heavy ids
had scarcely closed in sleer before Littlewoot
CfrpiinR track n Steluy
Promptly at five minutes after | O'clock Lit
tleyood passed Herty's sscore OF ,49o>. miles.
creased to i3l miles and posted upon the black
had once more wrested the lead. and George
hut, and seeing h Is charge sleering he declined
to awaken him; ip The hope that a further rest rest
would enable the Boston boy to REGAIN the lea lead
wood would be compelled 10 rest. Littlewood's
aged father Is now sangui inc OF his sons vic
tory. and announced that he had $1,000 on the
John L, Sullivan will arrive to-day from Bos-
ton to ehser 6a party of twenty tb
mile they gave him royal send on. 80
Littlewood went of the track at II 10; with
by about hall mile. Moore and Cartwright
also retired for a rest at 1915 SO that at II 80
al Littlewoods it % lead lead was shoFiived Promptly
q new 70 suit q tights and with it!le Smith act; t
Littlewoods score amid the cheers Of the
crowd. Whom the Boston boy made his 432d
nile he reGeyed an ovatSn At midniGht
Albert's record at that hour.
THE MIDNIGHT SCORE.
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