The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-05-07

gymnasium, moved
few pieces OF fur
"nnNInoN niture out OF the
"a nI'Gs, way and started TO
! gallop around the
big room at a live
~ clip. A handball game was In prog
ress and the club athletes looked on
Tor few moments, as the grizzled
veteran tore around.
Who's the bug?" was the general
query, and IL was one which nobody
could answer.
The handball game was resumed.
finished and another one started. Still
the runner continued his mad career.
Not until the shades OF evening began
to fall and an attendant switched on
the lights did he pause. Toward the
second hour the bunch In the gym
nasium tumbled to the fact that the
alleged bug was some runner, In
spite OF his grim appearance.
While changing draperies after his
bath. the runner was the center of
curious eyes and curious questions.
Marsh. he said. was his name. He
came from the wilds OF the Canadian
northwest. where he had left a wife
and five children to seek his fortune
a-Marathoning. Could he run? Well.
they had all seen him. and he was
as fresh now as when he commenced.
Did he know the sort OF game he was
up against? Well, he had beaten Mr..
Shrubb. generally esteemed some pum-
kins of a runner, out at Winnipeg,
and. if the others were as soft, he
thought he would pick up some easy
money. His appearance at the ID. A.
C. was occasioned by the fact that he
had been ruled of at the Y. M. &. A.,
whether on the grounds OF old age,
professionalism or incompatibility of
temper. he didn't say. This was the
first time he had ever trained. Be-
fore he had done all his preparatory
beat Shrubb he had ridden into town
on a load OF hay which he had to
sell TO purchase his running OUTFIT.
Yes. he knew he talked little funny.
That was because he had been born
and brought up in Wales.
In due course OF time Marsh faded
away and nobody noticed his absence.
He turned up the other day at To-
ronto. understandable dictu-be
went out and won Marathon from
the best men In Canada, and In time
which set new record for a course
over which races have been run for
years and years. Saturday he Is To
start in the big international event
in New York, along with st. Yves,
Svanberg and the rest and-just lis.
ten-he is the favorite for the event.
II he Is as clever on the prepared
track as he was on the ID. A. G. floor
he will win beyond question. And
the most peculiar part OF II all Is the
fact that. in spite OF rather apathe
tic welcome while here, he registers
as from Detroit.
It's something new for plain far
mer to be up there competing with
the pie-makers, walters, cigar signs
and bartenders who have made up the
professional Marathon contingent ur
to date. but here's plug for him. just
the same! May that family out In
the wheat country get some good news
from the seat of war where the hus
band and father is out hustling TOT
the coin!
wonder if, among the thousands
who are assisting In the last tribute
which Detroit is paying William G
Maybury. there are not few who re
member him way back In his baseball
days as the best player OF the Cen
trail High school team. The ex-mayoi
never tried to travel on baseball
reputation. which tradition leads one
to believe must have been a whole loi
better than he would ever admit.
Tally one more for the Detroit Driv
ing club that decided to stick to its
old stakes, rather than encourage any
of this new-fangled handicap stun. All
over the country 1t has become evi
dent that the trainers don't stand back
of the new system.
It looks strange to see the Yankees
up fighting for the lead with the
Giants away down near the bottom
Last year the former finished eighth
while the latter would have--but lei
poor Merkle be!
We are indebted to the veteran
George VOORHEES, for the alleged fact
that all lunatics, when walking. swins
the right arm with the right foot-in
other words. pace. Now we under
stand why some OF those wiggiers al
ways want to jump the fence.