New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-05
fSCOTT A RUNNING MARVEL
South Paterson Man Sets New
Mark for Modified Marathon.
INDIANS ARE DISTANCED
Field of Fifteen Hundred Race
Through City Streets from
Bronx to City Hall.

=. .gtridtng along with bounding lope Louis
q. scott, the matchless distance runner Of
,ha South Paterson Athletic Club, romped
tnns an easy winner in the modified Mara
.hor race held under the direction Of THE
C4w York Evening Mall through the streets
- this city yesterday afternoon. Scott won
-, almost quarter of mile in 1 hour
q minutes IS % seconds, which broke the
r,cord established by Lewis Tewanima, the
.cn,rsle Indian. Of / hour Q minutes 10
=. .sconds. made in the first race of its kind
,ss1 wear George Strobino. also OF the
3. soutb Paterson Club, finished second, Sc
<s.tonds behind the winner. Jack Gleucon,
.rpuning unattached. was third. The course
was Il SIS miles in length and fifteen hun
dred runners competed
% mitchell Arquette the pride and hope Of
M, Carlisle Indian School in the absence
~ Lewis Tewanima, ran q good race for
half the distance. Shortly after passing the
plaza Hotel he was taken with stitch in
bs side and limped home in seventeenth
Mace. barely able to plod along He was
the 6rst Of the FIVE aborigines who entered
70 finish.
Andrew Hermequatewa was the second Of
ttc redskins to complete the distance, and
- .fohn Backdeer, the Mohawk warrior, Of
vi anon much was expected, staggered over
nj ,ire far in the rear OF many paletace
=, athletes who ran them into the ground
fforn aaTt to finish
ar Panning q brilliant race for most Of
nc distance, John J. Mcnamara, Of the
= 5rish-Anierican Athletic Club. also suffered
%. a bad stitch in his side and failed 70 finish
better than seventh. He was prime
favorite with the crowd, which lined the
course. and as he swung along in the lead,
dorged by Arquette and the resistless Scott
the bald topped veteran Of hundred races
vas cheered 10 the echo.
Tire victory Of Scott practically clinched
the little fellows place on the team which
will faunt the stars and Stripes In the COM
ing Olympiad at Stockholm. Certain II IS
that. running as he did yesterday, the only
man who stands an even chance of leading
him over the wire at his favorite distance
Is the peerless George Bonhag. Scott huns
back in the ruck for the first two miles
and q half content 10 let the pack set the
pace. In the mean time Arouette, William
Brazil, Of the Irish-American Athletic Club,
and Mcnamara WED for honoTs with Harry
Smith Of the Pastime club. Shortly after
passinC the second mile Scott heightened
out his stride. and for the next two miles
ne gradually worked up 10 the front When
the crowd passed 125th street and Seventh
eyenue Scott was second TO the veteran
Irishnan, and the pair were forty yards in
front Of Arquette. who then displayed signs
os Weakening
.-- As the men turned into the circle at
Cathedral Parkway Scott began 10 try out
y ne leader by series of heart breaking
spurts. Gameness however great, when not
supported by stamina and speed, must give
place and when the men dashed by Tooth
street and Fifth avenue Scott showed out
IN the lead which he never relinquished.
In trice he Ieaped into a ffty-yard lead
over Mcnamara, who was similar dis
lance ahead Of Arquette, with the field
struggling a mile behind
Admirers on ell sides cheered Scott and
told him the record was his. The younsster
smiled at the acclamations and sped on
ward. He ran on courage alone. Twice in
the race he washed out his mouth with a
s1;onge which a clubmate handed him, but
Iba+ was all. and he won clearly because
he was the best man. Once during the en-
tire race did ne show the first sign OF dis
;ress st Broadway and Chambers STREET
truck loaded with heavy iron pillars Tor
one Of the skyscrapers In course OF con-
struction swung across the street and
hlocked the path. Scott was forced to stop
for . few seconds. and he tottered for
moment. The truck was soon pulled out
If the way. and Scott poked out his chest
and hit the pace, this time 10 stop no more
until victory was his.
.-tFha course measured ~ IS miles through
the principal streets of Manhattan and The
Bronx. Starting at Jerome avenue and
Fordham Road. the runners trailed south
va I'd along Jerome avenue TO the viaduct
over the Harlem River down along Ma
combs Dam Place to Seventh avenue, then
south TO 10th street, wnere they turned
east to Fifth avenue, and rated along on
Fifth avenue to Washington Place, where a
turn 10 the east brought them to Broad
wav. From Washington Place and Broadway
the trail led straight away to the City Hall
Park where the runners turned In and
finished in front OF the City Hall.
The crowd acclaimed each athlete who
finished. but there was general feeling OF
dlsappointment when Arquette and the
other Indians failed to show. Finally Ar
ouette stumbled in and the crowd cheered
. him almost as enthusiastically as they had
= the winner.
This year the City Hall was locked and
the aldermanic chamber was not used as a
rubbing room,