Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1909-02-17
Ran
Shpubb Off
His Feet

ing account Of the Longboat-Shrubb
event should be OF great interest to
Honolulu athletes
New York, Feb 5.-Tom Long
boat. the big Canadian, broke Alfred
Shrubs heart and won a great race
tonight from the earnest little man
that ever laced racing shoe. II was
the old story OF the hare and tortoise.
The hare had the speed and he had
the heart. but the tortoise was built
to go the route, and that is all that
can be said of the greatest Marathon
race of the century.
For twenty miles Shrubb raced the
big Indian into the ground and ran
himself into state OF collapse in an
attempt to gain eight laps. He gain
ed them but at the cost OF every
spark OF stamina in his body, and as
he staggered from the track a beaten
man at the end of the fifth lap in tho
twenty-fourth mile, Tom Longboat
came plodding down the stretch, run
ming as well as he had run at any
| stage of the race. The crowd gave
on cheer for the plucky little Eng
lishman who had tried to play an
other mans game and failed, and
then settled down to watch Longboat
finish the race alone. II pluck could
have won the race 1t would have gone
to the Englishman
| hut a man must have Marathon
legs to go the route, and Shrubb did
not have them.
Shrubb Set Fast Pace.
| Shrubb was out for new record
from the crack OF the pistol II was
very plain that he intended to run
Lcngboat of his legs II the Indian
would follow the pace, and to the
surprise OF every man In the house
Longboat swung In behind Shrubb
and started the first mile at a Ave
minute clip. AS the men swung in
to the stretch for the third lap Long
boat dropped back with grin, and
Shrubb went on alone.
Time and again the Indian allowed
the Briton to squirt ahead and gain n
lap. At the end OF the ninth mile
Shrubb was leading the red man by
three and half laps. Shrubb then
set n still pace, and soon closed up
the half-lap. and Mt ten miles was
leading the Indian by four laps and
y so yards. Time, 57:32 2-5. Shrubb
maintained his heart breaking pace
In the eleventh mile. finishing Ave
ard three-quarters laps ahead. He
Il ~. Mt In len he I'm
the fifteenth mile. and looked as
fresh as when he first started. The
Indian was also In fair shape, and
although he looked worried he kept
plugging along at his usual gait.
Shrubb was six and one-half laps
ahead.
. Longboat tried a sprint In the six
teenth, but Shrubb soon caught him,
and the end of the sixteenth found
Shrubb leading by seven laps.
The Indian sprinted In the eigh-
tenth and cut down Shrubs lead
by five yards, but the Englishman
still led by seven laps and 100 yards.
Signaled for Water.
At the end of the eighteenth mile
Shrubs face had taken on n serious
expression and he signaled for water.
; The long route was beginning to tell.
!, After completing nineteen miles and
, three laps Shrubb again pulled up be-
/ hind Longboat, eight laps to the
y good. Tom was plugging along as
O steadily as at the beginning OF the
n race. and the racket of Indian war
y drums was added to the din Of the
: band and the cheering.
a II was plain that Toms only
y chance to win lay In Shrubs inabili-'
/ ty to go the long route, and although
D plainly tired, the Englishman finish
ed his twentieth mile without show.
l. ing signs of distress.
y II was during the twenty-second
W mile that Shrubb began to go to
l. pieces Time after time he pulled up
It to a walk. and Longboat was plug
Is ging steadily along and won back
k four of the laps which he had lost.
l. In the twenty-third mile Shrubb
Is stopped to rest, and lost two more
d laps. Longboat was still plugging
o steadily along.
Collapsed on Track.
u with am advantage OF two laps,
= Shrubb then fell in behind Longboat
&c for the final killing three miles. At
n the beginning of the twenty-fourth
ID mile Shrubb was staggering and
= looked to be all in. Longboat was
81 one lap behind. Shrubb was walk
70 Ing and Longboat managed to get ON
. even terms with the Englishman at
" twenty-four miles and three laps.
The Indian took the lead at the end
OF the twcnty-fourth mile. Shrubb
was now limping along painfully.
~ and had gone only five laps of tho
20 twenty-iifth mile when he staggered
49, and collapsed in a heap. He had to
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