Evening star., 1937-06-13
WINS STARS RACE
BY ABOUT ! ! MILE
Time of 2:44:42 Is Eiqht
Minutes Back of Record.
Dengis Is Second.
Continued From First Page.)

tages Of the gruelling race. Dengis
finished In 2 hours As minutes So
econds, little less than two minutes
'ehind Porter. In third place came
Nlond James A. Bartlett of OshaWa,
Canada, who came up with a final
>urst of speed in the last two miles
, overhaul 50-year-old Clarence De
lar Of Keene Normal School, Keene.
:. H, the fourth finisher. Percy
Vver, a sparroW-chested wisp of a
nan from Toronto, Canada, who was
econd in the first Star marathon in
1882, finished fifth
Jose Rios, Peruvian marathon star,
who arrived in Washington early yes
;orday morning by plane, after a
;Dectacular aerial dash from Rio de
Janiero, finished bare footed in
twelfth place with pulled tendon.
His feet battered by the constant
pounding on the concrete pavement
cf the Mount Vernon Boulevard, Rios
licked off his shoes at the twentieth
nile and ran the final 6l2 miles
are-footed, over hot macadam sur
faces.
Dr. Ben G. Chitwood of the De-
artment of Agriculture retained his
District marathon championship, fin
i5hing in seventeenth position.
Three to Race at Dallas
Porter Dengis and De Mar will rep
resent the United States in the mar
7thon race to be run on July l8 at
Dallas in connection with the pam
.\merican games in the Texas city.
sios will remain in this country to
iopresent Peru in that race
Porter's final burst of speed to win
spectacular victory was a vindica-
ion OF the pre-race dope" and the
orecasts Of experienced marathon
oservers. Long before the pistol of
Capt. P. r. Carroll, in charge of United
States Police, cracked out the start of
he lengthy run down at Mount Ver-
non, veteran marathon men had
picked Porter to win. How he vindi-
cated their judgment became public
knowledge on the Boulevard just be-
low the Arlington Memorial Bridge
where he put on a mid-race squirt
to pass Dengis, who had paced tho
pack for miles.
After the gruelling run they lay
side by side on cot in Red Gross
tent-the winner and the runner-up:
Porter and Dengis. Nice work. Mel"
said Dengis, his face wreathed in a
smile. Earlier in the race, around the
lower part Of Alexa ndria, he had run
alongside of Rod Thomas, marathon
director, and yelled to him: Here I
go. boy Get out some of that big
type" But, game sport to the core,
he had nothing but praise for Porter.
THAT Mel Porter is game guy. He
had more than I had today. Mel and
I've finish one, two, all the time.
Don't we Mel?" he remarked.
Would Ban Foreign Runners.
SAY, you guys ought to restrict this
race to Americans" said Porter,
after DR.. L. S. Rove, director general
OF the Pan-American Union, had
handed him the big gold Evening Star
Trophy emblematic Of the national
A. A. u marathon championship.
"As 1t is now, with Films, Canadians
pretty nearly world championship.
They don't do it in other sports-call
national championship national
when men from other countries COM
pete, But sure am glad I was able
to win today. This Dengis fellow and
this De Mar are tough guys to lick.
knew that II I let up for a second
they'd have me. I sure got thrill out
OF winning" Porter finished in third
place last year.
A. Earle Weeks, president of the
District Chapter of the Amateur
Athletic Union, and William Schlo-
bohm. representing the National Long
Distance Running Committee Of the
National A. A. u, had unstinted praise
for the race and It's management. Il
think it's the finest marathon we ever
have staged in Washington" said
Weeks. over the hardest and fairest
course of them all. The police ar
rangements and all other arrange
ments were well-nigh perfect and
everything went off without single
hitch"
1T was we'll run race" said
Schlobohm The arrangements were
very good. and the National Com
mittee of the Amateur Athletic Union
will be highly pleased with the way
the District Committee handled the
race"
Won in Concise Fashion.
Never has a Star marathon been
N,n1 tv, 70
victory that Porter kicked in with his
flying heels yesterday.
Lays in Early Stage.
\ WAY from the start with the
punched leaders, Porter hung
back in the first few miles. He was
running second at the five-mile mark,
200 yards behind Lloyd Longman Of
Toronto, Can, and slid into first
position at the eighth mile, few
steps in front OF Longman, followed
by Dengis, Fred Ward Of New York
and De Mar, the 50-year-old school
teacher, with Rios running strong
NTH and looking as if he was ready
to step up to the lead.
Entering Alexandria, Dengis moved
up to first place, running few yards
in front of Porter, with De Mar third,
then Rios, Donald E. Heinicke of Bal
timore and Joseph w. Plouffe of
Worcester, Mass. They ran through
the Virginia city in that order while
police, as they had done earlier in
the race. restricted north-bound traf-
fic on the Mount Vernon boulevard
to cars with "of1icial" signs, to prevent
possible injury to the runners.
Down the long miles from Alexan-
dria under the Highway Bridge they
picked EN- up and laid 'em down in
that order until Porter decided to
make his bid at the sixteenth mile.
At the fifteenth mile-post Dengis had
. 40-yard lead over Porter, but within