Evening star., 1908-12-13

Marathon boy had to flop back in his
seat, looking like a nickelS worth Of cot
tolene in a pasteboard box.
Now, there was a good deal behind that
Kissing. which shall attempt to elucidate.
I'm the first place. folks are sore on
Johnny Hayes over here. l pointed that
fact out in this correspondence when.
couple Of months ago. 1t was first an
nounced that he was going to run the
London Marathon" over again with Do
rando at the garden.
You see. Hayes was looked upon here as
big kind Of a hero boy. He had made
good at the London thing. and when he
came back here all New York took a day
of to stake him to a huge 5th avenue pa
rade and to display bunting and 10 holler
their heads off for the young fellow. He
had done thing overseas that looked
good all around. viewed from any old
angle. and the folks here, where he was
born and raised. approved of him for 1t.
Then 1t was announced that he had
turned professional.
Well. nobody considered that to he their
business. Hayes friends were sorry, and
all that, but they looked upon his jump
out Of the amateur ranks as strictly and
entirely his own business. True, they'd
| have preferred to see him take the ad
vice which President Roosevelt gave him
at Oyster Bay. to get back to work"
work-all provided to his hand. His for
mer boss in the dry goods business here
had offered him Job at 5000 a year.
Pretty soft. eh. 5000 per annum, for a
kidster of twenty, who. before he got into
the running game. never made more than
SO a week In his life? Yep, pretty soft
like sure enough.
But Hayes didn't like the job thing. He
not only turned professional. but he went
on the stoige. He thought he'd be a mill
nOn-Ratlerer at the stage hut he
wasn't. His stage venture was a disas-
trOus f1ZZle-Out. Folks wouldn't go to see
him on the stage. And the stage thing
was cancelled.
England's Chance to Gloat.
Then keen for the kale, as, of course,
he had a perfect right to be. he gets
a-going this match with Dorando. That's
where he began to get disliked around
here Nobody had any objection to Hayes
getting all the money in North America
If he knew how to get it. But it was the
general verdict around here that he simply
had no right to make professional match
with the speedy Chimney. His triumph
over DorandO was an achievement that
belonged to this nation. That's the way
the matter was regarded. 1t was viewed
that he had no right to jeopardize that
achievement; that, particularly. he had no
right to give the English a chance to gloat
over us in this country In case ne met ue-
feat at Dorando's hands.
And there were Slews and Slathers of
keen judges who knew, from the very
outset of the negotiations, that Hayes
was going to get walloped by Dorando;
that Dorando was his master at the run
ming game.
Well his friends got around Hayes and
treid to get him to cancel that Dorando
match. They offered TO put him in the
way of making money out of races VILE
other runners. and so on But no; Hayes
felt that the big hunk of coin would be in
the DorandO race, and he wasn't moved
by the representations which were made
to him that he had no moral right TO toss
I off the American WIN. even II he had made
| it, Of the London Marathon.
So he raced the wop at the Garden.
Now, that thing wasn't any race, good
folks. 1t wasn't anything like a race.
| 1t was just a parade. with the wop out
in front all the way. as You know. Never
J in my life did I see man or beast in "A
sporting event more hugely outclassed
than Hayes was outclassed by this man
Dorando in that Garden Marathon. The
Italian simply toyed with the New York
youngster. At every stage of the journey
Hayes was a rank outsider 1t was plain
to the veriest tyro that Dorando had
Hayes in the pocket of his tun!c from
end to end.
Beaten-beaten to d pulp-dayes sulhed.
He didn't take it gamely. He showed
the saffron: said that lie was out OF
ki.ter-as if he hadn't owed it 10 the
United States. if that were the case.
to get himself into condition for race
with Dorando. His supporters fell away
from him. Hayes. who had been the big
big hero, could tru3ge down Broadway
and be recognized by thousands and
never get nickers worth of notice. And
sO aching for notice, he appeared at the
vaudeville show on that evening | men,
! ton and got up and challenged Dorando
to give him another show, and got HIM
self hissed.
Dorando will give him another chance.
The wop is out for the dust. and he II
give any old runner d chance if the
money end looks right. But take this
from the above signed DOraldo will
beat Hayes again just as easily as lie
did the first time Hayes never saw the
hour that, barring the things that hap
pened to the Dago in London. he could
beat this wop doing anything from q
jump to a thousand miles. Dorando Is
his daddy at the running thing, ana New
York is the little town that knows it
right now. 1t is doubtful II another match
between Hayes and Dorando will be
much of a drawing card. for that very
reason
can't remember ever having seen
young fellow throw away his edge on
the game of life so wantonly a s Hayes did
in this business with Dorando. He had
the world in his mitt and he chucked
it. His London laure!s shriveied from the
hour that he lost to the Italian. Now,
instead of being the big noise, why, he's
Just the little East Side New Iorke- fell
ler that won that Marathon in London
by fiuke. For everybody who saw the
Garden race had right to feel perfectly
certain that Hayes only beat Dorando by
the fuke that the English said 1t was
at the time. And that's what rankles in
the midriffs of folks around here-that
Hayes deliberately gave the BritiSherS
that chance 10 crow over en-
Thinks Dorando the Best.
Now. as to that Marathon that Dorando
is going to run with Tom Long5oat, the
Injun man. At the Garden next week:
From where | sit il looks as If Dorando
will cob that one, too. | can't dope 1t out
how any living human being is ever going
to beat that wop doing twenty-siX miles
ON nrdC ind rom q T.