The Washington herald., 1916-12-17
JOE GEIGER IS FIRST
IN TEN-MlE RACE
Baltimore Veteran Lands Carroll Insti-
tute Run Trophy to Locals.
By JOHN A. DuukN.

For running from the plains Of Mara
thon to Athens with news of the great
victory over the Persians way back in
4so B. c., Pheidippedes, the Greek, who
accomplished the feat, was rendered inn
mortal in living bronze by the great
sculptor Phidis. Many years afterwards
! Browning wrote a great poem about him
and in commemoration OF his run the
marathon race was installed on the
olympie games program as the blue
ribbon event.
| Yet yesterday over a snow covered, wind
swept course, UNDER weather conditions
that would make Pheidippedes shiver in
his sandals. several sturdy-limbed. strong
llunged runners kicked over a distance of
ten miles in the annual Carroll Institute
ten-mile handicap race.
Joe Geiger, the South Atlantic cross
country champion from Baltimore, rum
ming ttached, and from scatch po-
sition, easily overlook his field and showed
his heels to one Of the classiest crews cf
marathoners that ever faced starter
in this vicinity.
/ Geiser's wonderful performance in yes
terdays ten-miIe race deserves more
than someone like Phidis putting him in
sculpture instead Of the sporting pages
putting him in print, as he left the Tenth
street institute FIVE minutes behind the
| first starter, and was as fresh as a
daisy when he broke the tape. This
handicap never worried Joe over ono
step of the course, he ran like the veteran
he is, and easily overlook the advance
runners.
Jack Downey. of the Carroll Institute.
with two minutes and thirty-seconds
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seventeen that faced Jimmy Mulligan'a
gun. that gave the South Atlantic cham
pion any kind of a race. as the little
athlete of the yellow and white finished
forty seconds behind Geiger and over
most of the distance pushed the Balt'-
more phenom.
Even with the wonderful performance
put up by the Baltimore high stopper
the Capital City athletes are rejoicing
today as Carroll Institute by some great
team work annexed the team trophy and
captured most of the medals offered
| Carroll put over the first five men and
had six athletes cross the board in the
first dozen, handing their rivals, the Cross
Country Club of Baltimore. one of the
| worst setbacks ever administered the
Maryland mixers.
Trailing shortly behind Downey of the
Institute came Struffer OF the local team.
who was followed by his teammates,
Finch and Shanley. Finch, who ran in
fourth position. grabbed of the first
novice prize while Dillon put the old
team trophy on ice when he landed in
Eleventh position. Lyons, the other local
entry. pulled UP in twelfth position and
took the third novice medal
| Geiger captured the time medal and
| the cup for the winner. Karpinan, Of
the Cross Country, and Spear and Young
er, his teammates finished sixth. seventh
and eighth. respectively, and annexed
| the three bronze medals for these posi-
tons.
The champ was not in the running un-
til after he had passed the Bureau OF
Standards on his way back when he
pulled up into fifth position. Shortly be-
fore reaching the Loo Gate, Geiger
jumped ahead of Downey. who had been
leading the other runners a dogs life,
and was never headed. The runners passed
Dupont circle in this position and then
Joe showed his great sprinting ability