El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-07-15
AFRICA TAKES FIRST AND SECOND IN
MARATHON; AMERICAN IN THIRD PLACE
But Six Americans Finish in a Bunch of Ten Which
Closely Followed Three Winners; Wonderful Race,
Displaying Much Pluck and Good Sportsman
ship on the Part Of the Many Contestants.

stockholm, Sweden. July 15.-K. X.
Macarthur. the South African runner.
won the Marathon race at the Olympic
games yesterday. c. W. Gitshaw. also
of South Africa. was second, and an
American, Castor Strobino, South Pat
ersOn \. c., third. MacArthur's time
was hours, SO minutes; Gitshaw's, ,
hours, 81 minutes, % seconds, and StrO-
binO's, hours, 50 minutes, A % sec
onds.
The winner, Macarthur is a tall
Transvaal policeman, who has never
yet been headed in a similar event. His
compatriOt, Gitshaw, came second into
the stadium several hundred yards be-
hind, and third TO appear was the
American, StrobinO, who put up a
Drawer fight than most of the run
ners. for his feet were skinned and
bleeding and he was suffering great
pain. He never lost his nerve though.
and made a brave attempt at feeling
happy while he traVersed the stadium
track furlOng behind the second man
at the end of the performance.
AS the 10000 spectators in the sta
dunn looked toward the archway from
under which the runners emerged, they
saw the American shield on the breasts
of six of the first 10 men who entered.
The names of this roll are StrobinO,
Andrew Sockalexis, Old Town; John J.
souri, A c.: Richard T. Piggott, North
Dorchester A. A. and Joseph Forshaw,
Missouri A c. The American team
numbered y, and 10 finished. The
last of these was Thomas II. Liley,
North Dorchester 4. c., who finished
18th.
SockaIexis. the American, was the
fourth man to finish; J. Duffy, Canada,
fifth; Sigge Jacobson, Sweden, sixth;
J. J. Gallagher, Yale, seventh; Joseph
ErXleben, Missouri A. c, St Louis,
eighth: Richard T. Piggott, North Dor
chester A. A, ninth. Joseph Forshaw,
jr., Missouri A. c., 10th; z. Fabrea,
Canada, 18th: Clarence H. Demar North
Dorchester \. y, 18th; BOissiere,
France, 18th; H Green, England, 18th;
Harry J. Smith, New York City, Unat-
tached, 18th; W. H Forsyth, Canada
10th; Louis Tewanini, Carlisle Indian
school, 18th; Thomas H. Lilley, North
Dorchester A. A, 18th; A. Townsend,
England, 18th; F Kivieton, Austria,
goth: F. Lord, England, 21st; J. West
berg, Sweden, 22d; A G. SimOnsOn, Nor
way. 23d; c. Anderson, Sweden, 24th;
H ?. Lakenaepoulos, Greece, 25th, H.
J. Dahlberg, Sweden, 26th, and L Lund-
berg, Sweden. 9th
Two Americans fell by the wayside-
Michael J. Ryan. of the American
A c., who made a good run for -
miles, and then succumbed TO the heat,
and John 7. Reynolds. of the same club,
who fell out earlier.
Sweden furnished another dozen to
the race, and if their strength had
been equal to their ambition they
would have had a different tale TO
tell Canada's great hope, COrkerey,
ran with Ryan for several miles and
they gave ii up. The tall Finn. KOhle-
manen, a faVorite, was outclaSsed.
Two miles and a half from the goal
Macarthur went to the front and held
the lead to the end He had completed
the circuit of the arena before Git
shaw came under the archway- Spec
tatOrs cheered him Justify and as he
lay painting crown prince GustaVe
Adolph came up, shook him by the hand
and patted him on the back. A small
party of South African enthusiasts had
an enormous laurel wreath ready in
anticipation of victory. of which they
were confident from the first. They
lifted the two athletes on their shOul-
ders and slung the laurel over Mac
Arthur, carrying the pair across the
field.
Half an hour later. after champagne
had been opened in the dressing room.
the African delegation brought out the
.victors and bore them around the track,
the band playing frantically.
Then Long Wait.
1t seemed a long wait after StrO-
binO before another runner appeared
at the entrance. Then a second shield
was the indian Sockalexis Fifty wards
behind him came the Canadian Duffy.
who strove hard to overtake the Amer
lean He succeeded in some degree.
but the indian crossed the line 20 yards
in front. Both were in fine condition.
While Gitshaw arrived a little less
than two minutes behind Macarthur,
and StrobinO 50 seconds later more
than three minutes elapsed before
CockaleXis and Duffy came through.
Then a dozen more arrived in quick
succession. Each runner displaying the
American shield got a rOusing cheer
when he passed the American stand.
Every one of the American runners
came in strongly
Dahlberg stopped 50 feet from the
end. His legs were paralyzed and he
rubbed thel-. vigorously before he could
proceed. then he walked stiffly over
the line.
To Win or Die.
Il went out to win or die" said Mac