Evening star., 1932-08-21
Canadian and German Lag
Behind BaItimorean In
Star Race.
WYER CAPTURES SECOND;
De BRUYN STAGGERS IN
Reich Entrant Collapses on Reach
ing End of 26 Miles 3S5 Yards.
Taken to Emergency.

Looping across the finish line with a
great burst of energy, two hundred
yards ahead Of the second man. 21-
year-old Clyde D. Martak virtually un-
known as a distance runner outside Of
his native city of Baltimore, yesterday
won the National A. A. U. marathon
race, sponsored by The Star.
The time of the winner was hours
So minutes 18 seconds, for the full
marathon distance of 26 miles 385
yards, over a course which started at
Mount Vernon, wound around Hams
Point and carried a field of nearly so
finishers up Capitol Hill and down
Pennsylvania avenue again to the
Ellipse. The race was witnessed by
$4,000 persons, the greatest turnout for
any athletic event ever held in WASH
ington.
Second to the astounding Martak,
stenographer at Fort Howard who
was given little more than an outside
chance prior to the race. was a phe-
nominal 98-pound veteran from To-
ronto, Canada. Percy Wyer, a midget
of a man physically but mighty Of
heart and sound of limb finished Sec
ond to Martak in 2 hours SO minutes
"A seconds. In third place. staggering
as he crossed the finish line at the
Zero Milestone, came the rugged "a
year-old German boy, Paul De Bruyn,
one of the pre-race favorites. who wore
himself out by setting staggering pace
for the first 20 miles of the grueling
grind and lacked the speed and stamina
to stay with Martak and Wyer in the
drive to the wire. De Bruyn collapsed
in the arms Of a Red Cross attendant
as he finished, and after first aid was
administered at the finish line, was re-
moved to Emergency Hospital, where
he spent the night. Thousands Of per-
sons who saw the finish of one Of the
greatest athletic spectacles ever staged
in the Capital viii remember the cour-
ageous finish the German put on as he
staggered down a shouting lane Of
humans. slipped and fell fiat, rose
again, pain and agony dimming his
eyes, and wobbled across the line COM
pletely exhausted. De Bruyns time was
hours minutes So seconds.
d. C. Entrant Fourth.
In fourth place came Washington
entrant, Arthur Dewhurst, entered from
the Central Y. M. C. A., who finished
in 3 hours 10 minutes. Abilio Diaz,
Marine from Quant1co, finished NTH,
but was disqualified by Amateur Ath-
letic Union officials who superintended
the race because he did not check in
at two of the timing points. Billy Agee
of Baltimore, who, with De Bruyn and
Clarence De Mar, was a pre-race favo-
rite, failed to finish-a national cham
pion uncrowned without completing his
effort. Exhausted by his chase after
the flying De Bruyn, the Baltimorean.
his feet sore and his muscles weary
from pounding the concrete pavement,
dropped out shortly after the halfway
mark. Others In the first IL finished
in the following order: Fifth. John D.
Semple, Lynn Y. M. c. A.. who led for
a few yards at the 17-mile station;
sixth, Frank Jerry, Newcastle. Pa;
seventh William Dreyer, harrington,
Ill; eighth, Jimmy Bartlett. teammate
of Wyer from the Monarch A. c. OF
Toronto: ninth, Andre Brunelle, Lynn
Y. M. c. A; tenth, Clarence De Mar,
44-year-old schoolmaster from Keene,
N. H, who had led the pack through
seven Boston marathons; eleventh, Alex
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