Evening star., 1932-08-18
MARATHON ROUTE
WILL Be GUARDED
Four Police Departments to
Aid in Clearing Traffic
for Saturday Race.

Metropolitan, Park, Capitol and
Alexandria, Va, police today completed
elaborate plans for the National A. A.
U. Marathon. sponsored by The Star.
to be run Saturday afternoon from
Mount Vernon to the White House.
Adequate steps also will be taken to
care for the thousands of sport loving
washingtonians who are expected to
view the finish of the classic run at
the zero milestone on the Ellipse in
the rear of the Executive Mansion.
Motor cycle officers will escort the
contestants from the starting point
along the Mount Vernon Memorial
Boulevard. through Potomac Park and
around the Speedway and through the
heavily travelled streets Of the city.
Will Clear Intersections.
Policemen will be stationed at all in
tersections where there is much traffic
to make sure that the gruelllng race
will not be made more difficult by the
necessity of lodging moving vehicles.
Where there are traffic lights, vehicular
traffic will be controlled temporarily
by policemen without regard to the
= electric signals. so as to prevent loss
Of seconds through enforced halts.
Under direction of Capt. Patrick Car
roll. commander of the park police, Is
men from that force will be on hand
we'll before the beginning of the race.
Six motor cycle officers are to be sta
toned at Mount Vernon. One Will
leave with the runners and Will con-
tinue at the head of the procession OF
contestants to Fourteenth and water
streets, where Metropolitan Police will
take over their duties. The other motor
cycle men will be strung out the length
of the column
In addition there will be 19 foot
patrol men of the park force stationed
at the various intersections along the
route to insure the runners unmter-
rupted passage. Capt Carroll said he
expects the geatest difficulty at the
south end of the Lincoln Memorial
Bridge. around the Lincoln Memorial
and along the Speedway.
Roped Section at Ellipse.
The task of caring for the runners
and the crowds at the Ellipse also has
been entrusted to the park force. Here
a number of men will be concentrated
and ropes will be stretched along the
north side of the EllipSe where the ex-
hausted runners will cross the finish
line
Arrangements for passage Of the run
ners through the city proper have been
made by Inspector Ernest w. Brown
in command of the Traffic Bureau:
Inspector Brown has assigned eight
motor cycle officers as an escort for the
contestants. They will function SIM
tlarly to the park police escort. taking
over their task at Fourteenth and
Water streets southwest and clearing
the way to the Ellipse.
Commanders of the first, fourth and
ninth precincts through which the race
will pass have received orders to assign
foot patrolmen to all heavily Travelled
intersections along the route. Details
have been left to the discretion OF each
captain.
Capitol police also are showing the
utmost cooperation and will give the
runners right Of way through the
Capitol Grounds. f.
Life Saving Stations.
Anticipating that the runners may
REQUIRE medical attention during the
race. IL first-aid stations will be estab-
lished by the Red Cross. Ira Lee Law,
life-saving director of the District Red
Cross Chapter, announced their loca-
tions today.
The Red Cross workers nave oeen IN
structed exactly as to their duties,
which will include furnishing water,
oranges and lemons to the contestants
and taking them to hospitals in case
they are overcome by heat or exhaus-
ton. A Red Cross truck will bring up
the rear.
The first station will be located 5ls
miles from the start, about 200 yards
north of the dilapidated stone wall bor-
dering the Mount Vernon Boulevard.
Others will be placed as follows: At
the 9-mile mark, at the entrance to
the Arlington Cemetery; at the 12-
mile mark, 100 yards south of the
southernmost Pour Mile Run" sign,
south of the stone bridge on the boule-
vard the Is mile mark, under
the R.. F. g. p Railroad under
pass; the 49, mile mark, at the
water fountain under a shade tree near
the intersection of the west polo field