The evening world., 1888-02-06
THE SCORE AT l A. NJ.
At 1 O'Clock, the end Of the first hour, the
score stood like this:
MIes, LuDs

So completely demoralized were the man
agement that the names of several of the con-
testants had not been learned at the close of
the first hour. When Chief Scorer Ed Plum
mer announced the score of the first twelve
of the pedestrians there was a deafening
cheer and the men were encouraged to
greater effort.
Lepper Hughes was the first to cry, Hold,
enough" His old trouble with his feet re-
turned in the second hour, and he retired to
his cot at his number in the row of rude huts
at the east end of the track to have til weak
pedal rubbed and bathed., When he returned,
poor fellow and shook their heads discour-
agingly, but old John kept on, limping many
q turn around the track.
AS the plodders went on in their Journey
persevering way in which the lo~ng-legged
~heel-and-toe man, Hoagland. pushed one
foot ahead of the other. the gunshot speed
and the - business is business air of the
- Shoestrings" reused the interest and adj
miration of the spectators, md he was APP
plauded at every turn. He walked. Every
one else ran or trotted, yet at 3 O'Clock he
was only six miles behind the Greaser, who
was still leader of the pack.
Six miles-less than an hours work.
Hoagland is anxious to make a match witt
George Littlewood, the English champion
heel and-toe walker of the world. Little
woods record is 8 miles 1895 yards in ! hour,
and 439 miles 100 yards in "a hours. Hoag,
luuu II negotiating " u IhNO WIN lttlCNpOl
for 81 900 q side, any distance up to 100 miles
or "a hours. Hoagland is all angles when he
walks, and appears to be performing much
more labor than he is doing.
The dutiful wives of Anton Strokel, the
M~ichigander, and George Noremac, whose
real name is spelled backward in this nom
de pedal, sat quietly beside the entrance to
the cots of their liege lords all night last
night.
faraI with each other last night that fast
records were out of the question, but proba-
bly, by tonight enough of the weak ones will
have fallen out to leave a fine track for first
rate performances by the " stay there's to-
night.
At 2 "a O'Clock this morning the score for the
principal ones was as follows Guerrero, 16
miles 5 laps Cartwright, 1874; Alberts, 1874;
Hegelman, 16;4; Golden 49, Herty' ~
Manhattan" 14.2; Sinclair, IA Callahan,
IA Day, IA.
At this hour the big crowd still remained
intact. Alderman Patrick Diver still looked
on with the gravity becoming a father of SO
lively an infant as this city, Under Sheriff
Sexton thought that Hoagland ought to be
able to play billiards without a bridge
and Col. Ochiltree and Larry Jerome looked
bored-as usual. Jim Mutrie, Jack Dempsey,
Billy Edwards, Mike Gillespie, Jere Dunn
and Tom Mccoy divided the attentions of
the spectators in their quarters with the
pedal artists, and Marie Jansen stood tiptoe
ON a reporters desk in a futile effort to see
the walkers.
At 8 O'Clock Scorer Plummer announced
the chief scores to be; Guerrero, 23 miles
laps; Hegelman, 1915; Cartwright, 1856;
Alberts, 23.2; Connors, 22.5: Herty, 22.5
Golden, %; Strokel, ala; Hart, 2l.3 Man
haitian 20.7; Day, 20.6.
Some Of the costumes are remarkable, to
say the least. "McEyoy's Best " IN the race
is Keeshon, No. "a His shirt of white bears
several sprigs of shamrock, and a bright
green star adorns his breast,
Merritt Stout. the Arab. 10 . conspicuous