The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-19

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graduated o keeping up the interest
In long distance racing in this country,
n I predict that their example will be
followed in all parts of the country and
that the wave Of Marathon races all
over the country will be in continued
force from now on. Why shouldn't the
interest be kept up? As I have said
before. there is not a healthier game
in all the athletic program; there is
not an event which brings out all the
sood. that there is in a man as does a
long-distance contest, and there is not
q race that there Is so great a desire to
win and SO great a qualification to the
winner as in a race of this kind, where
it not only requires ability to sprint but
also a determination to plug along
and reel off mile after mile, using your
head, keeping up the steady pace that
you know that you can stand, and
when the final momen comes to let
out a sprint hat will take the heart out
of your opponents and LAM you a win
ner--not an easy one, but nevertheless
a winner, and, after all, that is what
everyone entered in the race wan to
be and what everyone loves-a winner.
Hest Ma VIII Win.
I want all you fellows to remember
that We want the best man to win,
irrespective of city, club or any other
affiliation. There will be few, If any,
disqualifcations for foul running, and
l wan to see If it is not possible to
carry this event through without one
single disqualification whatsoever. If
We can do this it will be a record, and
the biggest boost that clean athletics
has had for many a day.
You are going to be watched closely
by competent officials, but at the same
time a great deal is going to be left to
your honor and you sense of fair play,
and it is to these that L want to make
an appeal. You do not want to win
and know that the cheers that you will
4. get from the thousands who will line
the course would be changed to Kisses
If they but knew that you had been re-
turned the winner unfairly, do you?
Do you want to win the handsome
medal offered to the winner, and when
wearing it, instead of feeling proud.
have it burn your breast with the
shame you feel? 1 tell you, fellows, it
isn't worth it by a whole lot. I have
never heard IN appeal made to the
honesty and the sense of fair dealing
without having heard that appeal
listened to and needed. Go in and win,
l say to you, but if you have n idea
that you would take an advantage h a
is unfair, don't start, or If you do, drop
out before you have covered the first
mile. You will feel, better doing this
than you would If you won knowing
that you had stolen the first prize, for
that is what it would amoun to.
surpass England Now.
American athletes have proven their
superiority in 'long-distance running as
in every other branch of athletic sport.
At first, England was able to show us
their heels in any distance over a half
mile. Now, we take second position to
no one. MEL Sheppard made them all
take his lust in the Olympics, and Car
penter and Robbins made Lieutenant
Halswelle look like a selling platter.
How do you suppose that this fine con
dition of affairs was brought about?
BY resting on what few laurels we had
In the distance game? NO, sir, by
strenuous training and studying out
systems of building our runners up and
increasing their speed, not to be as 1ast
and enduring as the English, put TO
make them harder and faster. NOW,
the American is first In every branch OF
athletics. including the Greek sport OF
throwing the discus.
So you boys, will find that without
training you cannot get ahead In this
long distance game or In any other
branch of athletics. Knowing this. get
together and work as you have never
done before.