The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-22

the distance. His time was l hour
% minutes, which Is 5 minutes
II 80 seconds better than the pre-
yious record In this country and less
than two minutes behind the worlds
record. John ]. DAILY. Irish-Ameri-
can A. c., was second, three min
utes behind Mellor, and James Clark,
Xavier A. c., "a third.
Great New York Interest.
But none of the newspapers in the
metropolitan zone were satisfied with
his brief notice. All of them had their
own representatives at the race, 1t De-
ing considered of such Importance. n
New York Herald publishes today two
thr~ee-column pictures of the start
finish. with h crowds, and a column
of type describing the event.
The World describes 1t as a record
making event, both from crowds ana
the race, in a column story. The New
York Press publishes a column. Tile
Sun gives an adequate notice, creditlnS
the race to THE EVENING STAR, as
does the Morning Telegraph in a col
umn story. The Tribune, Times n
other morning papers had complete mar
ratives. The Evening Sun, Evening
Globe and Evening World of last eve-
ming each had quick telegraphic reports
of the Marathon, publishing stories OF
1t on their first pages a few minutes
after the race was over. The Evening
Journal, while a day late, a quite an
acceptable notice today.
The great ace was replete with Incl
dents as we'll as importance. All who
took part in it and all who witnessed
It were vital to its success and all con-
tributed their share. The result today
was that American athletics enjoyed a
tremendous boost, long-distance road
racing being considered the king of all
athletic sports.
It is not at all unlikely that the
Marathon of yesterday will be made an
annual event. More h a a score OF
the clubs which had entrants In the
a have requested THE EVENING
STAR to arrange for future Mara
thons. Among those petitioners are not
only the local and New Jersey clubs.
but some of the big New York and for
eign clubs which had their world-fa-
nous athletes in yesterdays Mara
thon.
The only incident to mar the brilliant
success of the Marathon was the COL
lapse of two of the runners, one or
them being one of the most popular OF
the local athletes entered, Joe Bauder-
mann of the Belleville Catholic Club.
The other was Arthur f. Hyland, of
the Circle A. c.. Newark. They had
finished more than nine miles of the
contest and were running well together
when they fell in High street. For a
time II was feared that their collapse
- 4A-T 4I.t iIAir Iaoffo 1o1
ceased to beat. But a doctor into
whose office they were carried gave
quick relief and they were sent to the
City Hospital, both unconscious. Con-
slant and efficient attendance rallied
them and today they were conscious
and the doctors said they were quickly
recovering.
1t was at about this spot in High
street that one of the ~hurporous events
occurred. Sammy Mellor was leading,
With Long John DAILY, LORI and Clark
dashing hard to overtake him when a
strange man in scant running suit
dashed out of a yard and ran down the
street ahead on the racers. A clerk of
the course, Mayor Haussling. who was
a Judge, and James M. Gould, who was
IN general charge of the race for THE
EVENING STAR, saw that this was
not right aid in their automobile they
sped to the front, by Mellor %and>over-
took the stranger. On his back was
pinned, instead Of an official racing
number, the Advertisement of a fur
fier. He claimed his right to run In
the streets II he SO desired, but the
racing oflcials quickly put him out of
n, driving him from the course. He
had planned to finish first in the race
and thus unjustfy profit through the
advertising.