Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-09

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where runner after runner collapsed
only to stumble on again, Henry
Styves, a stock Frenchman, who jump
ed into fame month ago by defeat
ing such runners as Dorando, Hayes
Shrubb and Longboat in the first
great professional outdoor marathon
derby held in New York. TODAY took
the measure of twelve competitors in
an international mara hon at the Polo
grounds and romped home winner
bv the handsome margin of five lays,
or five-sixths of mile.
John Svanberg, carrying the blue
and yellow of Sweden, finished Sec
ond, after one OF the Quickest uphill
! fights ever witnessed on the running
! track, and Tad Crook, an unknown
runner from New England, staggered
over the tape in third place, thus
winning a measure of glory for Amer
lea.
The once mighty Dorando, consider
ed a likely winner before the start Of
the race, finished sixth, his manv
| halts in the latter part of the race
proving too great handicap for him
to overcome at the end.
The fourth and fifth men, Simpson
the Indian, and Fred Appleby, the
English entry, plodded their patient
way to the end as did Cibot, the
French six-day runner, who finished
seventh. John D. Marsh, the Cana
dian entrant, after running second to
Styves for fifteen miles, found the
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in the 25th mile when all hope Of
qualifying for the purse money had
been lost.
OF the other contestants, Tom Nor
rissey of Yonkers, only recently turn
ed professional, collapsed utterly in
the sixteenth mile and had to be car
ried from the field. PIT White and
Mat Maloney, running for Ireland.
Louis Orphee, running for France, and
Felix Carvajala, running for Cuba,
plodded on to the end.
Styves' time, 2:44:O5, was almost
four minutes slower than the mark
set by him in the Marathon derby
of month ago. The pace at which
the first ten miles were run, however,
was much faster than that which has
characterized former events, the five
miles being Negotiated In q min
utes and 56 seconds, and the ten miles |
in $500.
The race brought to the Polo
grounds a crowd Of nearly 10000 en-
thusiasts.
The weather was ideal, but the |
heart breaking pace set for the first |
ten miles soon told on the runners.
and man after man sank to the turf |
exhausted, only to go on again. spurr-
ed by the trainers, the shouts OF the
spectators, and the lively music of the
band
At the crack of the starting pistol
Marsh took the lead, with Styves edg-
ing him for stride, the little French
man pattering On like steam engine,
mad never more than a few feet be-
hind the Canadian.
For fifteen miles the two ran prac-
tically together. Stvves assumed TIE
role of pace maker in the fourth mile
and ran up his gait to racking speed,
but the, man from Canada hung on
Behind the two, distanced some times
by a few yards, at others by several
laps, came Sevanberg.
In the sixteenth mile Styves had
killed his man." and Marsh began
to fall back slowly, at first by incnes
and then by yards and then by CON-
plete laps. Sevanberg, Appleby and
dorando passed him. the last by
theatrical sprint which was not fol.
lowed up, as Dorando stopped when
opposite his quarters. After .h:ee
minutes of tanning and rubbing he
was again in the race, but twice in the
seventeenth and nineteenth miles he
retired, once leaving the ground alto
yether. In the twentieth mile and to
he end he ran in splendid form, but
even though he gained lap after lap
upon every one Of his competitors,
not excepting Styves. his many stops
n the race doomed to failure his ef-
'orts to make up his lost ground.
AS the race wore on the runna:s
began to show signs of distress. First
Applebv, then Savenberg, two laps on
y behind Styves, toppled over on the
grass utterly spent. All three strug-
ed to their feet again and continued
1ut for Morrissev, the strain had been
90 much. and he had to leave the
1eld, carried in the arms of his train
srs.
The surprise OF the day. as the end
reared, was Crook, the Fall Rive.
'unner, who running as If each lap
would be his last, managed to creep
1is way to the front, past Dorando,
past Marsh, past Appleby. past Simp-
ION and Morrissey and on to the very
heels Of Sevanberg.
AS a sensational finish to an al
'eady stirring race, Crook, Sevan-
oerg, Simpson and App1eby all cr,n+
'led up after crossing the finish, and
had to be carried of the field. Do
'ando, however, was In, apparently as
good condition at the finish as at the
'tart, and galloped of the groun is