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

for this. and I was going at mile run
clip now without wracking.
At last / got Hefferon. The poor
fellow was staggering. His legs we're
pumping up and down mechanically.
but he was hardly getting out of his
own tracks. / didn't turn my head as
| went by at full speed but I saw that
he was too far in to make any effort
to tail on to the procession. Too bad.
too. for it was only about a hundred
and twenty-five yards outside the stad-
ium gates
''Dorando was nowhere in sight. |
felt for a moment that the race was
lOst-that he had finished ahead of me
after all. But l never let W. | tore
on into the stadium. I'll never forget
that sight. for l was still fresh enough
TO take it all in. About 10000 people
Cooked like two or three million to mel
were jumping up and down in the
Srandstands and yelling their heads
off. They were turned away from me
toward the other end al the track All
OF sudden the yelling almost stopped.
l ran across the cycle path and turned
L" the left to make the last 800 yards
ON the running track. Ahead of me
there was a crowd on the track. The
crowd was punched up. First they'd
stand still then all push ahead for few
yards and stop again. Cameron, who
came i'm with me. yelled: Run, Run,
He hasn't finished, Run like HI, You
can get him. Run, Run"
The GrueIIine Finish.
With 800 yards to so l spurted for
my life | saw the little crowd on the
track push ahead rapidly. stop. gather
together and push ahead again. just
like football rush line showing the
BAH over for a touchdown. When I
came i'm Dorando was about 125 yards
from the finish. He was doctored and
revived and pulled to his feet and
showed along by the officials. They
got him to the line Just ahead of me
and dropped him across it.
AS Dorando finished they had a
stretcher ready TO carry him off the
field. / was so close to him that they
we're still busy unstrapping and open
ing the stretcher when | went by. |
was going so fast that / went over the
line thirty or forty yards before I could
stop. Then | turned and walked back
Matty Halpin and my attendant. Cam
eron, ran up to me and asked me if
needed help. Let me alone | said. I'm
all right
Il was almost sorry to see Dorandc
unable to finish after running the game
race he did They told me afterward
that the Italian was all in after the
twentieth mile from the terrible pace
but he stuck it out until he fell .uncon-
scious and couldn't get up again. He
would have stayed down after the first
fall inside the stadium but for the
stimulants and the assistance given
him by the officials there. He could
never have finished alone. That's what
made his disqualification necessary I'M
der the rules of the game. The English
rules distinctly stated that no assist
ance of any kind could be given a run
ner after entering the stadium and
that any runner who collapsed from ex-
haustion and was unable to continue
without assistance must be removed
from the course.
II don't know whether I shall ever
run another Marathon in my life or not.
hey call this the greatest athletic honor
in the world. I've done my share
There'n always be plenty of good men
in America TO win for u.s.