The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-04-10
Frenchman, Now a Hero,
WasLooked Upon as a Joke
(By Tad. }

New York. April 10.-Henry st
Yves OF France. formerly a caterer in
a London restaurant, is the hero o.
the sporting world. The young man
who beat the greatest Marathon run.
nerS can claim the honor of being the
best He beat both Longboat and
Shrubb and made them both quit, and
would have made Hayes and Dorando
10 LIKEWISE had the distance been
longer
| st. Yves was the smallest racer In
the bunch Saturday, and at the start
the biggest joke.
| Dorando and Longboat most laughed
! themselves silly at the dark horse
when he started. He had a choppy lit.
tie stride like a Shetland pony He
! took two steps to Longboat's one. and
his feet were raised only about six
inches from the ground. never much
more. They say that Johnny Hayes
runs like an Indian--closc to the
eTound-but this fellow has them all
stopped on the short stride He re-
minded you OF little sky terrier try
Ing to keep up to a greyhound when
he was next to LonGboat. He was not
at the front when the race started Do
rando took that job and set a merry
clip for a while.
st. Yves jumped TO the front then
and simply burned the track up
They were Offering 10 to l that he
would not win, and even that he would
not even be third. He is only 81
years old.
Harry Stevens. the Columbus OF the
Frankfurter, urged all his friends to
get a tack on St, Ives, but all his
friends laughed at him st, Yves look
ed too fat and pudgy They didn't
even think that the frog-eater would
run the twenty-eight miles
Wait until about the fifteenth mile.
Shrubb Will pull his cork. yelled the
wise ones.
Mr.. Shrubb did attempt to extract
the cork from Frenchy. but lost his
own trying It. Longboat had a terrible
job hanging on after st. Yves took the
lead, and quit in the twentieth mile
Shrubb hung on as closely as he could
until the twenty-fourth, and then fell
In behind
Dorando was the next man. and was
three laps ahead OF Hayes and Ma
loney who were supposed to be run
ming against him
ST Yves kept his fast pace right up
to the finish and In the last mile tore
around the big field as though he was
just starting
In about the seventh mile the
Frenchman took lead of about 70
feet. He stayed there and occasion
ally looked back 10 see how near the
others were to him. Then for a lap
or more he would run along looking at
the ground. Suddenly the others
would crawl up and then the bleach
critics would let out a veil, and then
like a scared rabbit the Frenchman
would take another spurt and regain
his lead This is what made the
others laugh They thought that after
awhile the little pudgy gent would
drop.
Maloney was the disappointment Of
the race. He was well liked and
heavily backed. but either the track
or the pace were too much for him.
He was never even dangerous.
Johnny Hayes male a great finish
and was roundly cheered, but what he
lost at the start was too much of a
handicap.
Tom Flanagan, who handled Long
boat in the last race, said that the In
dian was In no condition at all Flan-
agan thought Dorando a cinch and bet
5000 that he would win He said Ma
loney's legs were too big for a Mara
thon runner.