The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-08-30

1T isn't anything wonderful that 50
|any Americans finished up in front
was just a case Of using our brains.
don't suppose we are so much faster
nan the English, but we go at things
it'll out heads instead of our legs. We
bake a careful study of the art of get
. ng out the best that's in us. That's
~.
I've studied Mara thon running for
bur Years. I've run three at Boston
nd Oh a .Yonkers, besides the Cana
4 ian SRound the Bay race. which is
|nly nineteen miles. l ought to be
ood judge of pace. ! always study the
Their fellows carefully. and come
retty near telling what they can do
nd regulating my own pace to fiji.
we studied all the traditions i'm Eng
lind. We did our training very care
billy and lost no sleep over the stories
! bout the terrible pace the English dis
kRnce runners would cut out. Mike
Ilurphy was with US, and we knew we
| ad the best advice, anyway. There's
nan who is entitled To "a lot of credit.
Hike ought To have the biggest loving
lup that there is i'm the market. and
hey ought to put him i'm the Hall Of
Fame. He surely did Il lot FOR US over
here
tndisn Won Trial Race.
Mike let Us run IN a trial race Of
bout fifteen . es. The Indian, Te-
|yanima, won that. l was minute or
Two behind / used my natural pace
Ind / felt sure that the Indian ran too
|ast too keep up over the long course.
II he could have kept il up | would
ave been glad. at that. because he
|arried the flag. too.
'One thing that gave US lot Of con-
|dence before the race was a trial the
English had. Duncan. the best Of the
Engiishmen, ran ten miles with the
arriers. They have some good men.
ut Duncan went out of sight ahead Of
|he bunch between eight and nine
|liles. AS soon as | heard that l felt
lure we had them. Duncan's pace was
100 fast for man training for Mara
hon. l knew he'd try the same pace
L the big race. and ! knew that no
wing man could stick il out and finish
veil going like that. So we kept plug
ing on with our work
THE day of the big race was pretty
OF. We had formed in four lines i'm
|he ground of Windsor castle. There
we're about sixty of us starting. men
rom all over the world The Princess
IN WARES Hftu the SldTllllS pistol NO.
he didn't hold il. She pressed a but
ION they told me. I didn't see that part.
II the fun. l was too busy thinking
bout the race. | was in the third line
rom the front. or course II didn't
make any difference about that We
we're close enough together for such a
6rg race.
U'The road for a mile or so was all
Nbles. Rough going. but a fellow
'Se&'t give a whoop about that when
,e,s fit. / didn't care how rough il
vas so long as the others had 10 cover
he same ground. Ii wa shot. too. but
I was Just as hot for the others as il
yas for me- Everything was for a fair
cid and no favors in that race.
English Set the Pace.
.aThe English started off at terri
10 clip. That was just what ! expect
n and it didn't worry me at all. ] set
~ mace and paid no attention TO any
.odv else. II wouldn't have made me
hance a step If they had all run away
RON, mo at first. | had il all scientif-
aiIv figured out. You've got to be
cientific in Marathon. You have just