Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-05

IN galiopeo '12 niiies .iiiousn
IL the streets of Washington
yesterday at pace OF bet
ter than a mile every five min
utes to score his third conSecu-
tive victory in the Takoma Park
Citizens Associations annual In
dependence day run.
The national 15-mile champion
finished half a city block in front
of Clyde Martag, also OF Balti-
more, who discarded ill-fitting
shoes and ran barefoot.
Runners from the Monumental City
trailed into the next eleven places, the
first Washingtonian to cross the goal on
the Takoma Park playground being
Irving Nicholson. fourteenth. He rep
resented the American Legion.
Agee's time was 35 minutes 81 40
seconds. about five minutes faster than
he covered the course. which starts at
Thirteenth street and Ohio avenue
northwest, last year. His victory gave
him third leg on and permanent pos
session of The Evening Star trophy.
StonewaN Club Ahead.
It was his sixth triumph OF the year
IN distance races and his e1ghte6 nth IN
90 contests in the last Is mon rs, a
record that included third victo in
succession in the national A. A. U. To-
mile test. Agee looks to partlclpa Ion
in the 1882 Olympics.
BY leading the parade of ~ starters
yesterday, he made it easy for his club,
the Stonewall Democratic, TO WIN Team
honorS. The Stonewalls had large
representation and took five of the first
IL places for score of II. The Ram
sey A. c. of Baltimore was second with
Sc points and the knights OF Columbus
of Washington third with lis.
Only nine dropped out along the
arduouS route that was largely uphill.
Many thousands viewed the procession
of variously clad athletes and cheered
then on the way. particularly Agee,
whose rhythmic style commanded adj
fniration. He scales gracefully dis
tributed 140 pounds, with generous
portion of leg muscle, and literally
bounds along. His only training has
been the management OF the largest
newspaper route in Baltimore, which
gives him opportunity for considerable
legwork. He is % years old and has
been a runner for seven. His family
takes q peculiar pride in his Independ-
ence day victories. His younger
brother was born on July and his
sister on Washington's birthday. Billy
first saw the light of day on Christmas
morn.
Event Well Managed.
The race was barely under way when
Agee emerged from the pack to lead
throughout, his stride as strong at the
finish as at the start. He gave the
impression of being able to hold the
pace all day The barefoot Martag,
taking short quick strides, ran a game
race and was never more than 100
Baltimore Cross Country Club and less
than a furlong back of him in third
place was fellow member, Eugene
Newton.
Two motor cycle policemen cleared
traffic for the runners and otherwise
gave excellent service to Richard s..
Tennyson, assistant supervisor OF play
grounds who handled the major de-
tails of a completely successful event,
assisted by member of the playground
staff, Harry Helme, former Georgetown
University 2-mile star.
The field was more than three times as
! large as last year and last year'S was
twice as large a sthat of 1929 when the
b race was inaugurated. The order OF
N1nish:
n 4 LSlgds ma Asss s. 8: e. E. 6 G..
IN S 5ohn b BsaTds HEs e. s. G G.: w.
EI s-RS S.. Nee Nee t pR7n5aif a 4 Sc,
E s-Wiiiiam Tulimer Ramsey collssians'.
&k i0-Ernest Crosbie lB. G. c. c..
NJ lis. p Gerkin IS. d. c..
R. i2-Roland Beidenkopf RAMSEY Col
~ f 1smWilliam shanahan ramsey Col
R il~irvin Nicholson american Legion,
ls2Richard Brockmeyer g. D; c..
81 l6-Jerimiah Looney TX. of c..
b 1sISenrssd s staffa Is b c c. -
81 l9-James Harrison Ramsey A c..
III 2o-Howard Early IS. D. g..
u 22-Frank Peters Ramsey Collegiansl.
" 23-Thomas Hayes DORA Athletic Club.
24-H. G: Lewis National Guard Of Mary
ssss-s6btiiIpP } S.lHaaz g p .; en- c.
Il as-Ed3ard quinn (Ramsey Collegians).
Il 29-Clifton Pearles IS. %. c.;
81 s9-Earry Grsy Ramsey conllesianS).
33-Fietcher Anderson ramsey COL
sGGuy webbing Ramsey collegians,.
, 3rHaskel T. Clark * of c.. D. 60.
81 3s-Wilson Meiser IS. D. c..
( 39-James H Montague TX. of C.. d. CO..
). 40-JoSeph Krebs (Ramsey A. c..
: Headley and Ely Swift.