Year: 1879

1t to you before. you know but IL give you card
rolls OF bills from tive pockets and the money is up.


A. COMPARISON.


Ennis the freshest ioaE,ng man Of the four walks
along ut pace that might last till he got clear
around the world. and yon scarcely help giving
show what is in him. Broader and sturiier
OF body than any of his rivals. deep
the look of lsboring man q machnist. his cordy
mock and determined head, his easy step and free
breathing alike tell OF the great reserve power Of this
Near him is the Maine man. Hartman. 'the only
ful-blooded Yankee of the lot Tall and angular
Brother Jonathan himself look at him he reaches
for his thirty mine inch step in the clear. His legs
alone nearly six inches longer than any ordinary
mans. and cleaning through the trunks of hand
thighs. As he reaches fur out. from
his hips you agree with your neighbor that
really that about all there is of him. His body is
very thin and spare, his look like bits of stout
grape vine hung, antcnnake. from his skinny
warped shoulders His thin head spare vt the
front and stnoby ut the back and bis hair flying about
just whero it wants to- in marked contrast with
the round, broad-ieadel. sleek-haired Englishman
This good fellow is striding on in fashion which
does credit to the flag he wears. Seldom running
he seldom needs to; and if indications last night
so for anything, he win be second that track
late Thursday. But can't he stay longer than
Authorities ditier Some say that he is only an
eighty-cight hour-nan. Others that at the end of
ive days mis- score once stood 400 miles. and no
willing to take up his bet that he could do
112 miles in the next twenty-four hours. s'rhat
boys arms commence to hurt him. He doesn't
friend in neighboring seat. Ennis looks as
though hc'a be here the last day." comes back the
at sssh other they are level as they pass yon just
in range with that post and both at their natu
raj pace.


But look. who is this? For right behind these two
mea they go fighting away over tho long course
and wearing their over worked hearts down whole
year in q single day, queer little fellow,
tremendously strong the belt down. his calves
bullying il he had his lunch in there he brings
into this fight between the picked men of two con-
tinents the best pair of legs in England Such
thick sturdy foot. 1t might belong to Hercules little
brother Such commanding thighs and. more
noticeable than either look ut the muscles OF his hips.
All the top of them and just below the lons is
most wonderful development. betokening enormous
power. No wonder this little man The
wonder would be how he could help it, tor with
good roony chest easily the best the course.
thicker neck than Hanlan the sculler and round.
good natured Johnny Bull head. with eyes bilious
and slightly boodshot like Courtneys. this stout,
young, ponybuilt man has looked MI over winner.
Indeed he is the only thoroughly gadiatorial
tho course, for. saving Ennis. somehow our
American athletes do not look equal to the work
they do. and seem to do it with their heads rather
than their muscles. And snch queer pace. For
face and the air of we'll bred English groom.
but jogtrots around the Why doesn't
he let ont (? For he only takes little
under him. While if ho would only turn his thumbs
up sharp his swing OF them would be just like the
regulation swing Of tho most approved Fifth avenue
hind and goes by it looks as though any one could
run down that lazy little logger. But just try it
at the east end OF the hall See those figures and
little nowels own name at the top.


RowELLs CHANCES.


Wherc all other eyes sunkcn and every man


looks il he had better STOP this little fellow looks
fresh daisy. Indeed. his face is still actually
q little feshy And note the wisdom Of his plan Of
going for he mover runs far or fastgencraily less
than one lap. Nor is he fast walker; but when he
docs he kicks his heels up high behind. and
calling the muscles OF the under thigh. gives
his front thigh considerable rcst and these frequent
changes, now throwing his weight into one set Of
muscles and now another. just nnrsc mans
strength q boxer docs when he "spars for wind
and Keep the fellow up to al Ill snst a ne can 90, ne
battle man with q $40 mile record II
47o miles all that he do. Sir John Ashley would
century on him il no thought he would be wasting
his money. This ring Of Cockney spectators would
not & be 80 free with their money here thus early in


''Mnrk this, that each man here is plainly racing
for himself alone; each one wants to wn Had tho
three Yankees agreed among themselves, and of
themHarriman for instance, who docs his 1l6 miles
in twenty-four hours-been put on Rowell on Monday
any good. place IN iSs apeyI ao bsls and half tho
900 more they VIM net here before Saturday
night would not e. back to England Ru this o Is
thought that OIeary would give tho Englishman
enough of this sort OF thing without their aid.


o'IEARY's MISTAKE


And why has he not done SO? When he finished
$50 miles and two laps in Agricultural Hall at ten


minutes past eight the evening Of the oath day Of
world. did be do it in any such fashion
he has been going this week. Did he
lie back at the start and let his most
ahead of him? Not he. "A story has been flying
from mouth to mouth all the week that he was then
in the race caught up, went by and came in winner
But this is not the He had the lead almost
from the word do. and steadily increased 1t until
by Wednesday no was ten miles ahead OF Brown and
Thursday had lead of fourteen miles. Why
has he not taken q similar lead this week and
shown this stalwart young Englishman that, good
man he is, there is man here from Cionkarty
that can show him yet clean pair of heels? simply
because he could do it, 1t must not be forgotten
that OLeary il not always up to 500 miles in u week
that he tried it in the first week of July, 1917
and failed. and that in bis race with Cam.
that he could have made anything like
that pace TINT week. In the last part Of this
who looked carefully at him day before yesterday
could fail to be struck with the fact that he not
in good condition His face said unmistakably that
he was stalc that coming to this arduous under
taking soon after the,Othcr he had not yet
cupcratcd sufficiently to face such work. For
eral days after that race blood was so bad that
his swollen feet would heal and he could scarcely
walk, and carefully as he may havo nursed him
self at the distant Hot Springs of Ar
back. These horse-killing fivc hundred mile trips
in week are trifiing affairs: Few men can take
even one SUCH IN l1Ietluo anu DC Deucr IOr
II. But Daniel O'Lcary has had quite number of
them. Notceably sunkcn 10 his eyo 1t is evidently
not naturally so. He is thirty-two years old.
aud IL this week is any index. either he must
take . good long rest before he walks such
race again his walking days are over.
Nor is he we'll handled Rowell. The
around him do not seem to manage him at all. In
decd. he is managing himself, and his unhccdng,
introverted eyes. as he trcads around that track.
looking NJ any one. give the impression that
he is lost in deep thought. But Rowcll. Why. At
kinson orders him around like retriever. and Il is
evident that he makes q much better Brit
ish subject than would any who has
had breath of good American air for
awhile. All his work far looks full of
method. For the two past days he has been right up
to schedule time. notoriously fast runner he
has never yet fast this week. When he slept
from to ten last night and let tall Hartman
cut down the long gap between them. till within
miles of even, he knew full well that Hartman
too must sleep that then he could open the gap
wide again. And he has made all this good work
with less applause from the crowd than
any other man had II would be at least generous
to give him and then q good Yankee