The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-07-25

mcdiaicly crowd of track officials
and followers swa1mcd about him. III
vas evident that the mau. with un-
iauated courage. had run himself u
The very limit Of endurance None
aNpscted to sea hin rise. fos haazard
.nd raNn he had fallen like a goo
soldier when the last oil of yitahty
was exhausted
According ID the rites Of tbo racal
phHsici8ns should hnrn taken hind
away bul the track officials. LOST n|
ther sympathy for such man and
for such an effort lifted him 10 bis
fees and with their hands at his back
gave him support f'Our times Dcran-l
do fell in the S00shrds iha, separated
him icr the finish, and four times a.
ter the doctors had paured stimulentsI
down his throat he WAS dragged to.
his feet and finally was pushed ncrOss
the line with one man ut his back aud
another holding him by the arm. His
part in the race for q practical mir
poses was ended wien be entered the
siadlrm for unless he received as
distance he could not have finished
While this pathetic scene was be-
ing enacted, the American. Hayes. en-
tered the stadium. comparatively
fresh and trotted around He came
ia less than a minute behind Dorande,
but in the excitement Of the moment
rallied to,get even f Om mis- own coun-
trynien the reception be deserved
1t Is question whether public opin-
ion viii ever support another mara
ih0n race here. Dorandos condition
when he finished. and the condition OF
many of the contestants in the
event lead people to think il Is worse
than prize Fighting or bull fighting
Hayes ran careful race He was
satisfied TO so along slowly until he
had covered 10 miles and then pushed
into third place
When Dorando. Hefferon and Hayes
reached Wormwood Scrubs, Dorando
l.eas three anu half minutes ahead Of
fieifernn, who In turn was two and q
half minutes ahead u Hayes. Both the
italian and the South African we're
| limping badly, while nayas was COM
parauiyely fresh and still strong
When the American reached the level
Of the Scrubs he could see the two
eaders only a short distance ahead
Of him and he felt certain from their
gait they were about run out He in
creased his speed and before he was
through the Scrubs he had oyertaken
the South African and had made a
considerable gain on DoranGo.
Americans Great Performance.
The times taken at the finish show
how we'll HAYES succeeded in making
up the distance, for despite the assist
anoe given the Italian, the American
in the mile and a half distance from
III. 4
the Italians lead from about six min
utes to less than minute, and he was
strong while bis opponent was SOM
pietely undone.
Forshaw, the second American to
finish. and who was but four seconds
and a fraction behind Hefferon. was
walking about as fresh as ever and
suffering no ill.effects from the race.
The Italian, Dorando, should have
been out of the race three miles from
home He ran we'll for 20 miles, but
had come too fast and had 10 be as
sisted even before he reached the sta.
dium, but not to the same extent, h9w-
ever.
The other events in the stadium
were tame as compared with the
Marathon. In the polo vault A G..
'nbert OF Yale, and r. r.. Cook Of
'ornel, tied fcr first place with n
feet inches. aud he gold and silver
medals go T. America while s. G.
Jacobs university OF Chicago, tied
with Sonderstrom, of sweden, and Ar
chibald. of Canada for third with "a
vault OF II feet, 9 inohes
The Americans also won their heat
ia the l630meue relay race, defeat
ing the teams OF the United King
dom and Canada ana VIII run IN the
final against Hungary and Germany
Sweden captured all three prizes in
the high diving; the United Kingdom
won the goa metro team swimming
and the catoh-as catch-can light 10
i47 pounds wrestling The Graeco-
Roman heayyweight wrestling went
to Hungary the sabre and Epee IN
dividual fencing was won by Busch Of
Hungary and the fencing Epee in
lividaal cimpetitlpa by Albert, OF
France.