New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-11
FINN WINS MODIFIED
MARATHON IN A ROMP
uarnes KoIehmainen Shows
wav to 1,4O0 Opponents Al
most Without Effort.
HUGE THRONGS. SEE RACE
Harry Smith, Strobino, Roth
and Dryer, in Order, Follow
Olympic Hero to Line
at City Hall.


,.Lr,ainen. the hero Of the 1912
n,r,,ic games. race TO an easy victory
TIN Evening Mail" modified Marathon
of122-S miles held yesterday through
citv streets from The Bronx to the
e.isb line in front Of the City Hall. Save
- few brief moments i'm the first quar-
nile Of the race the wonderful little
,,,,rish runner was always in the lead.
=, first bv a few yards. then by as much
&C q quarter Of a mile and finally. when
=. Lrsv he had the race within his grasp
3, little more than block and half
v.,ar before have New Workers seen
.ncb wonderful piece Of running as that
~, mn lbs the sturdy Finn. He smashed
al records for the course from the hrst
nil mark right down to the finish tape
which he crossed just 1 hour . minutes
and 1885 seconds after racing away from
the start at Jerome avenue ana lS4'h
street far up In The Bronx. Had ne
been Dushed at all there is no telling what
the remarkable Olympic phenomenon
might have done. AS il was. Harry smith
of the Bronx Church House. who finished
second was almost a fun minute oehinu
the Finn when the finish was reached
For the first half mile smith ran stride
n, stride with Kolehmainen but beyond
tho first checking station he was outrun
and gradually dropped back. Along IN
the eighth mile Castor Strobino the South
Paterson lad who did so well in the
ol,nnic Marathon last summer. over
hauled smith but the Bronx man had
LOT I'm reserve. and easily outdistanced
strobino in the last mile or so. when sec
ond plale was the only possible goal for
either Arthur Roth. OF the Mohawk y.
q WAS fourth. a few seconds over min
ute behind Strobino and Tom Dryer. also
n the Mohawk club. was NTH half
minute behind Roth
Aside from the remarkable performance
OF Kolehmainen. the running OF the No
hawk men as team was conclusive proof
NJ their all around strength. for they
carried of the team trophy with total
NJ Il points. while the Bronx Church
House was second. with 100 points The
1rish-American A. G.. the only one OF the
big clubs 20 enter a team. was third. with
total Of l12 points. The runners repre-
sentine the Mohawk club and counting IN
the team prize competition finished fourth
fifth seventeenth. twenty-second ana
twenty-third.
Fourteen hundred out of a possible six
teen hundred faced Big Bill" Edwards
the starter. at the line at 1S4th street
The public school building on Jerome ave-
ME AZ that point was given over 10 the
athletes. who overAowed the rooms for an
hour or two before the time scheduled for
the start. The race was supposed TO be
Gin at ] o'clock. and by' that time the
lower end Of Jerome avenue was thronged
with the first batch Of spectators.
II was nearly 20 O'Clock, however, be
fore the runners were all ready and then
they were let out into the roadway. They
poured out ~ the building in solld
stream half block long and filed up the
avenue from curb 10 curb. The police
held them in check for an instant. and
then Edwards fred the shot that set ne
mass in motion.
From the starting line down Jerome
avenue 10 Macomb's Dam bridge the way
was lined with a string Of spectators one
and two deep. once across the Harlem
however. and on Manhattan soil. the run
ners found themselves struggling through
double wall Of humanity all the way
down Seventh avenue TO Central PARK
In this section alone ~ was estimated
that one hundred thousand saw the run
ners 20 BY with kolehmainen at their
head Every block he ran the little f1nh
was greeted with uproariOus cheers. and
for the most part the race appeared TO be
triumphal entry into the city for the
olympic champion.
Central Park North was jammed' and
the police. who had closed the entire
route OF the race to traffic. had parucu-
larly hard time in forcing the spectators
back. Rounding into Fifth avenue the
same conditions prevailed. and the ponce
al several points had TO drive the croWds
lack with their sticks There was little
disorder withal. and in the surging ana
pressing no one was hurt.
In the middle reaches Of Fifth avenue
along the park there were comparatively
few spectators. and things went aIohB
smoothly until the advance guard OF au-
tomobIles reached I'D street, where the
III Regiment was forming Into line To
march 10 the unyeiung OF the SchurZ
monument
Kolehmainen was only few docks
away when the automobiles began TO jam
W behind the soldiers. who got fiustered
and stood motionless for several mo-
ments. Then there was a quick com
nsnd. scarcely distinguishable in the
stretching Of sirens. and the regiment
marched at double quick into the park
getting out OF the way just In time
On down Fifth avenue Kolehmainen
raced behind his convoy, and all the while
the crowd was growing greater ana
Greater. At 18th street the plaza was
IAN Of humanity, and right on down past
70 and 9th streets the same CONDITIONS
we're met At Madison Square the CROWD
was so dense that Broadway was hiled
% overiowlug and not wheel turned.
Lover Fifth avenue was turmoil Whlle
Washington Square where the course
Nrned east and into Broadway was
thronged.
Broadway presented the most serious
Noolem. The runners had 10 face the
as" subway construction work, the sur
lace cars and few scattered trucks that
persisted In blocking up the roadway
@d II was a wonder that some OF theh
40 not come to grief. Koiehmalheh
saowed his cool-headedness in lodging
os'seen cars and weaving in and Out
through the traffic like a shuttle.
from Canal street 10 city Hall PARK
u'e winner got one continuous ovation
Hat burst into mighty roar when ne
eeshed across the plaza in front or the
NY Hall and broke the tape. Then the
VherE began IN corua nm first iu ones and