Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-15
ALL READY FOR
MARATHON RACE
THIRD OUTDOOR CLASSIC
EVENT TO COME TODAY
SCORE OF ENTRIES ARE LISTED
FOR BIG RUN
Course of Twenty-six Miles and 3s5
Yards viii Be Lined by Friends
to Cheer Contestants
on Way

The third outdoor Marathon race to
be held in Southern California will take
place this afternoon at the new Fiesta
park stadium at Twelfth street and
Grand avenue. After several weeks
of training. between fifteen and twenty
athletes will be ready TO start at the
crack of the pistol, which will send
them off their mark, starting at 2:30
o'clock for race of twentysix miles
and SS5 yards. Six laps to the mile
will be rolled off, 157 times and 81
yards over.
Any athlete who has shown any form
as distance runner and several from
all sections of the Pacific coast will
be found among the entries. Kittie
KitsuSe, who will represent Japan,
will be among the starters. Kitsuse
comes from New York and is said
to be a fast one.
and Louis Cont are entered from the
Polytechnic and Los Angeles high
schools and several of their class.
mates will be on hand to cheer them
on to victory. Sevenar of the contest
ants are not expected to finish when
1t comes down to the last five miles,
and from the dope sheet it seems that
Lowe, Floyd Anderson and the Japa-
nese runners will be fighting it out for
honors
Residents of San Pedro will be on
hand to cheer ON it's four entries and
taken in all some good material should
be developed for the international race,
which will be held July 4.
The entries are: Johnny Edward,
Seattle; e. Stewart, Vancouver, B. c.;
S. p. Rosenauer, Hollywood; w. Sowin
ski, Portland; e. E. Estoppey, Pasa-
dena; Alfred Hansen, Arno Shonestein,
Floyd Arson and Joe Gillespie of San
Pedro; Kittie Kitsuse, New York, Max
Rasch and M. Larsen, San Francisco;
Louis Cont, F. M. Lowe, Roy Raynor,
Young Oyama, Willie O'Connor, Char
ley O'Connor and Sam Kiddo.
Fred M. Lowe, who is down on the
program as a candidate, as contest
ant in the recent Shriners' contest and
won that event. He is expected to
make a hard fight in this afternoons
race.
The race will be handled by Eddie
Robinson, who is acting as repre-
sentative of e. Pickering. Young
Oyama pupil of Eddie Robinson in
the fighting game, will be one Of the
starters, and from his workouts during
the last few weeks, he should make a
creditable showing in this line of ath-
letics.
Marathon racing looks as If 1t has
taken a strong foothold in Southern
California athletics and by the first
of next month it is expected at least
thirty or forty candidates from every
nation will be in the pink of training
for the international event, which will
be held on the national holiday by
Robinson.
1t is expected Miller, winner of the
northern Marathon race, will be in Los
Angeles and will compete.
Another candidate who is expected
to enter is Paul Reinwald, who has
been making a record for himself the
last few months, scaling over noun
tains and doing long distance stunts
through Southern California.
e. q. Estoppy, who ran from Pasa-
dena to Venice and also walked from
Los Angeles to San Diego recently,
will be another entry and should prove
a difficult man to beat, as he has the
wind and was a former athlete, run
ming under the colors of the Univer-
sity Of Southern California before turn
ing professional.