The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-04-25
OF AMATEUR ATHLETICS
Will Be USHERED IN THIS Week

1897 more than a thousand runners
have competed in these races and
t;Ie winners have come from all parts
of the United States and Canada. The
present course is from Ashland to
the Benton A. A. clubhouse, a dis
tonce of twenty-five miles and the
record is held by NJ. ]. Ryan Of the
Irish-American A. c. of New York,
who covered the course in 2 hours
81 minutes and Is 1-5 seconds in the
ISl2 race. The course is one mile,
=, yards short of the Olympic mar
sti,on distance, the record for which
was made by X. X. Macarthur the
South African policeman at the
Stockholm games in 1912, when he
ran the &c miles, 365 yards in 2
tours SO minutes and 54.S seconds.
More than one hundred of the
sturdiest distance inner in the
country are expected to compete and
of a million people will line the
course, to witness the race which is
held over state roads with the start
just outside the village of Ashland,
and the finish opposite the club house
IN Exeter street, Boston. For the
first fourteen miles the course is
gently undulating and generally
down hill. The road leads through
South birmingham, Natick and
Wellesley to Newton Lower Falls,
where the hill climbing begins. The
first hill begins at the sixteenth mile
at the turn into the Commonwealth
avenue boulevard and there is a fair
ly stiff rise for nearly a mile. Then
follows a mile of airly level running,
followed by the second big hill, the
top of which overlooks Chestnut Hill
reservoir, with the dome of the state
house and the finish in the distance,
five miles away. The course for the
remainder of the distance has a cou-
pie of slight hills, which appear for
midable to the firing runners, while
the last mile is quite level.
There are four official checking
stations, the records for which are
as follows: South birmingham, 5
miles, 81 minutes by J.. J.. Caffrey
in 1901; Wellesley, 1 miles, 1 hour
and 20 seconds, by M. j. Ryan in
1912; Boulevard, 16 miles, 1 hour
"a minutes "a 3-5 seconds, by C. j.
De Mar in 1911; Coolidge Corner,
% 1-2 miles, 2 hours 4 minutes 10
seconds by Caffrey in 1901.
Each runne is accompanied by an
attendant on a bicycle, and is exam
ined both before and after the run
by physicians.
The opening matches in the IA
inch balk line, one shot in, worlds
championship billiard tournament
will be played in New York city to-
day. Although this is the initial
tourney under this system of play,
the entry list is a most representative
one. including William Hoppe. Geo.
Sutton. George Slosson, Ora Morn
ingstar, Calvin Demarest, Koji va
mada, Harry Cline and young Jacob
Schaefer. Play will continue until
April %, each game to consist of 400
points, under the rules now govern
ing the 1871 game except that the
anchor spaces will be seven inches
square.
The eight entrants each paid an
entry fee of $3.50, to which is added
j purse of $4,000, together with the
net gate receipts. tt is estimated
t2at between six and eight thousand
collars will be divided among the
Layers on the basis of forty percent
to the winner. thirty to second. twen-
~ to third and ten to fourth. The
winner of the tournament will be re-
quired to defend the championship
emblem under the same regulations
that govern the 1871 trophy and
championship.
Considerable correspondence Is
passing between the countries drawn
together in the preliminary rounds
of the Davis cup international tennis
tournament and the dates for the
first and second rounds are expected
to be fixed in the neal future. Can
ada has suggested Niagara-on-the-
Lake as a possible battle ground for
matches with Australasia, but the An
tipodes have not agreed to the sug-
g~estiOn, and unless Canada can be
induced to send a team to England
an unlikely contingency-the match
will be played in New York. No date
or enu have yet been fixed for the
second first round tie, the match be-
tween England and Belgium. Should
Belgium express a desire to play on
its own course. England may send a
team to Brussels in May or June.
Under this arrangement the winning
coutry-presumably England-could
meet France at Wimbledon, Eng,
the victorious team subsequently pro-
ceeding to America.
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