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| i STORIES OF SPORTS TOLD BY EXPERTS THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUA RY 6, 1909 BEST SPORTING PAGE IN NEW YORK ‘LONGBOAT BEATS FLEET SHRUBB Ih GREAT MARATHON Little Englishman Takes Lead at Start and Holds It for Twenty-four and a Half Miles, but the ° Pace Kills Him. BY ROBERT EDGREN. The tortoise beat the hare and Longboat beat Shrubb. It was just 5 @bout the same sort of a proposition. The Englishman showed amaz- ing speed, but his ambition was his undoing, Starting at a terrific clip he immediately opened a gap and left Longboat far behind. In mile after mile he increased his lead, until in the twentieth he had eight laps « the best of it—nearly a mile, And then he broke down, and the Indian * finished alone, Had Shrubb been less ambitious—had he taken a lead of two or three laps and then loafed along in the Indian’s wake—he would have won, Madison Square Garden was packed long before the time scheduled for the start of the great Marathon. A race in which Bob. Hallen beat Mike Spring kept the crowd from becoming too restless, There was a walt, dur- {ng which everybody puffed cigars. And then, with a charge of photog- raphers that made the Light Brigade’s effort look Uke a promenade, a booming of flashlight powder, a whanging of drums and cymbals and a clanging of brass bands, the race started. There was silence im the great arena, | deep bass voice in the gallery advised and then as Shrubb, slight and dark Tonanoat to “get a horse.” And just and wiry, shot to the front like a deer | {nen Neural alco Rea eey ue be Beaded running from the hunter, a roar of ap-|thon records. Longboat was still pot- plause went up that shattered the tering along {n the rear with as much emoke wreaths and rattled the sky-|¢XPression on his face as an Indian ever Ughts. wears—and {t was an expression of dis- Fleet Sbrubb Takes couragement, For several miles Shrubb's handlers Lead In First Mile, With his dark hair flying in the wind of his swift fight, his white running pants blown tight against the taut muscles, his feet fairly twinkling un- der him, Shrubb went away from the plodding Indian so fast that he seemed to gain yards with every ide, Almost Defore we realized that the race has be- gun, he had covered the first half mile, I held a stop watch on it. Shrubb’s time for the half was 2 minutes and 19 seconds, Half-mile championships have been won In slower time than that. Con- aldering the fact that this w race of 2% miles &5 yards, the nerve of the , Uttle Englishman was almost appalling, ; And when the half was run he never Jet down an Inch. On he flew, with Longboat struggling half a lap behind. The mile he covered in 4 minutes 42 seconds, That was surely flying. The athletic sharps in the crowd gasped. “Sparrow” Robertson blinked at his watch and shook his head. James E, Sullivan, in a box, craned his neck end glued his eyes upon the red-shirted flyer out in front. Nobody had more than a glance for Longboat. At a mile and four laps (there are ten laps to the mile), Shrubb lapped the Indian, and for a moment jogged at his heels and watched his running action critically. Batisfied, he went out in front for an- other gain. Shrubb was running like a machine, without the slightest variation in pace. So was Longboat, byt so much slower that It seemed almost a joke. “Hey, Tom, take a taxi,’ fm an arena box. nd up the C.Q.D., Tom,” put In Joe Humphreys, Shrabb Two Laps Ahead at the Third, At three miles Shrubb held a ‘ead ot two laps and was still scooting along as easily as at the start. He tripped end fell, and Longboat regained fitty yards, but the Englishman, not to be denied, quickly took it back again. The Door Indian was having a hard time of St and looked worried. harry Poliok and Pat Powers and Tom Flanagan, his managers, shouted encourggement to him, In the elghth mile Longboat's effort to keep somewhere near the fleeting figure ahead began to tell, was lumbering along with a sort of a bow-legged gallop, were heaving with the exertion and his arms swinging jerkily. s.¢ began Ump. And then Shrubb, fresh and slip- ping along with a snappy stride that was the perfection of leg motion, went by for another lap. The first ten mies were run well un- éer the hour—in 67 minutes & ends, to be exact. Shrubb, cc behind Longooat, still tearin slowed for an instant and look Indian over. His dark, grim face for the first time broke into a erease, “He's laughing,” gomeone. “He's laughir everybody in amazement that a mar could laugh after such heroic exertion @nd the crowd, looking at Longboat, Yaughed with Shrubb. It looked like @ good Joke—the best of the season. Smiling Shrabb Kept Lengthening the Gap. Bhrubb spurted up again. Longboat put on speed and held his posit: Jap, and then Shrubd, till smiling, The Indian} His big shoulders} n for a had been ready with a pair of shoes and were motioning to him questioningly as he passed by. He was wearing spiked shoes, and in a long race like this the heads of the spikes cut into a man’s soles, The other shoes were spikeless, Now, in the twentieth mile, Shrub atopy suddenly and sat down on the track. His handlers slashed the lac- ings of his shoes and began putting on the new ones, The spectators across the track, telng unable to see what was going om, took it for granted that Shrubb was down—had japsed, Up went @ confusion of noises, cheers, groans, questions, the indescribable dis- cord of the crowd, Shrubb and his handlers worked frantically, Long- boat, plugging along, circled the track and regained a lap. Onoe more he came around, but just before he arrived Shrubb jumped to his feet and started out like a sprinter. He had nearly a lap to go to catch up, and he tried to do it in one long spurt. Longboat quickened his pac, Around and around and around they went. Shrubb cut down that lap until he held Long- boat In sight every time he entered the straightaway. Spectators Suddenly Dazed by Englishman, And then something happened so un- expectedly that it left the spectators dazed and bewildered. Up to this mo- ment Shurbb had not shown a sign of distress or weariness. was still running machine driven by tireless mechanical power. Now, with one lap nearly re- Gained, he slowed up. All at once It became apparent that Longboat was holding him. From the Canadian, con- tingent went up a cheer. The feathered and Moccasined Indians borrowed from some Wild West show scalp-danced. One beat on a tom-tom. ike a well oiled began to play. From arena box to ¢ lery eve Was, yell Longboat's wife, standing on the edge of the track, pie ba Leader and Time for Each Mile. Mis.Runner, 1—Shrubb rudd $—Shrubb 4-Shrobb 6—Shrubb 6—Shrubb 7—Shrubb Time. 0.04.12 0.10.48 4-0 0.15.52 0.21.08 445 0.27.84 0.83.37 0.30.45 1-5 0. {| 9—Shrubb 0.51.43 25 |] 10—shrubb 0.87.32 25 1.08.25 1-5 ped up and down and clap} ds. Tom Flanagan ru: t and shouted Btolidly the whit faster or slower, He , too, and couldn't increase his But he could go on at the same mble. And Shrubb was j her {i ong uld see now mé wrong with 1s dark face had gor stride had was no longer the springy lift His head was ro a of St. Apparently he/| Jumped by and went oot ahead opening the gap a foot at every stride. He had five laps to the good now—half a mile ae miles of Learn The flashiights san puffing here and there around the {he wabbled in toward th |again. Blower and slower wen and Longboat, leg plugging, sly taking back the three- Shrubb had won so hard 5, ng his shoes, track, sending up young volcanoes of} jewdery smoke. Ih the, twelfth mile! Shrabb Reeled and rubb gained another lap, He was ; ‘ ; jetting the habit. Two miles further on Stopped to a Walk. @ took one ore. The men were sel-| And at twenty-two miles, with Longboat dom together, Shrubb, running st hi Steady, machinelike pace, !nereased his lead = methodically. When, in the eighteenth mile, he passed the Indi again, waking Ris load eteht laps, a comin: up fast behind, Shrubb came to at a slow walk. Every Englisman Ja that crowd groaned, In front of me, so close I hight have to The Terre cama WHEN BRone DowN To A WALK ‘The l!fe, battles and career of Ba (Copyright, 1908, by so painful that {t {s almost paralyzing The bands} }and shook his fi Shrubb's father. whiskered old gentl and reserved a tons of looked on his finge! he held a piece tore ft In two and 2 squares that fluttered from h is But they Is, and the referee should terfered instantly or disqualifi boat. First Tom Fla Indian around th pacing anc coaching him ‘as against the rules of the race. Pollok and Powers, managers of Longboat and promoters of ; the race, were on the track coaching the Indian. So were a score of others. ‘They saw an unexpected victory in sight and were wild with excitement, ngboat looked tired and sullen. He! was running almost as slowly as Shrubb, Flanagan, running beside him, shi ger in Longooat’s { Longboat Takes the | Lead as Crowd Cheers. | miles | At. twer o and «halt Shrubb walked again, then ran, In an-| other lap Longboat Zz ile up! from the rear, cau; im and past. Shrubb t His face was toward me. I don't care to see that expresali n, Tt was as If he we being 1. His lips were dra back until his guins showed, He mace one despera ahead, then. fell | back elowly, assed him For the first had lapped | | pacing, urging 1 d drive & sudden stop, reeied, and went along | body Shrubb while the on_his feet. The Indian's handle trake now, coaching Everybody’ knew rules, and tr Longboat on. ing again, blow rubb, all in, lowly on.’ Long-| teadily away ahead | had his coat off, wi stopped. th boat was swe of him Tom Fila: the Ind to a walk going faster. 1 He seemed to gain and was | 1ce|be in agony, Dut would not quit. | | Referee Orders the Pacers Of the Track, | Just about this time Tim referee, Woke up, and getting ou track, ordered the pacing stopped aid much Two Indians took Longboat up ) Hurst ‘stood and paced him balt way | jain. ulm, sat around the track, then ran back eg Blow tothe Body Knocked Out Several Title Holders and Landed Rich | Honors jor the Inventor. ttling Nelson, the lightweight champion of the world. BY BATTLING NELSO. CHAPTER XII. SHRUBE AND ConseadaT Passep HIM FoR THE FIRsy Timeent BATTLING NELSON'S “HALF-SCISSORS HOOK” HELPED HIM WIN WORLD’S CHAMPIONSHIP {the side of the left hand. In coming out of a clinch fight fans will notice that the left hand of a fighter Is withdrawn, as a rule, from under the right arm of his opponent. It ts just at this moment that the blow must be delivered. Hits With Sld> of Hand. Instead of hitting with the knuckles of |the fist I take a swing of not more than six Inches and plunge the side of my hand with thumd and forefinger on top of my opponent's liver. To test this tap you about three inches below the |right armpit and a little forward. To be Jexplicit, the spot is on the two lower ribs about two Inches above the lower right hand pocket of your vest. A slight jtap on that spot will send a pain shoot- Battling Nelson.) N one of the preceding chapters I made mention of a blow that I have|‘"}’ ia Shee Ce with that punch thantewonty fiverwell battered and dried Pe rf na s 4 han tw ye! termed the “half scissors hook.” I wish to say right here that the dis- | and they would crumple up ‘all in! scalps. - i} eap. Mite i covery of this blow is largely responsible for my entering the ranks blow ts not fe apectal ta ana Licks Clarence English. of the champions. Soon after I had discovered this deadly blow I began | iy Ie vsitune ce laying deen WO) str, English, called Clarence, to whom to meet the aspirants for the championship title, and I keeled them over | 1 discovered how to use this deadty! | PAR teers Fr eT onerenal eee one after another. a ida Wet hing ‘ ae seh tne for a return go and I gocepted. the The halt scissors punch !s nothing in Its effect. That was the blow that 1| fingers on an opponent's breast while petite Gia Le CI Gi ete more than a quick hook which lands dealt Joe Gans at Goldfeld when in| {2 tig, “lmches of @ fight as if to talk) "en T” packed up my fightin on the top of an opponent's liver, Tho was claimed that I had fouled rin | “With stows, my dear old green tlghta an blow is always unexpected, and It {s Polen ae ne op hustled oft Missourlward. We were to But we will take that up later. | The left half-scissors hook {s dealt with | x. without re nee and sce wt As I have sald to learn some at you t Ty of actly where the liver was located. ed on Ch 1 hoynski’s scher the left halt. trance. blow suppose one of you get a friend to| «| was met at the station by Johnny Web- SHRUBB HAD So MUCH SPEEC He ALMOST Set THe TRACK, AFIRE © ae ) Pp ar ae ae M’GRAW AND STALLINGS PLAN TO DEVELOP_YOUNG CHAMPIONS | eeeemamamel Plenty of Talent Taken South to Work Out in Spring Training, BY BOZEMAN BULGER. OU fans had better begin digging Y out your old dope books, for there’s going to be eome baseball {doings in @ very few days, Managér Stallings, of the Highlanders, hae al-; |ready gone to the South, where he will | make arrangeemnts to receive his re- crults for the team of 199, MoGraw is still in town, but he will start for Mar-) |lin Springs in exactly two weeks, and | with bim will go the youngsters who | |hope to tear up the National League in | \the spring. Both Stallings d McGraw have {from the State of Washington, where ‘he had won a lot of glory in his four- |round go with Young Corbett, at that time the featherweight champion, and the talk of the universe, George was going at his best when the Milwaukee |promoters signed me up, expecting, of course, to see me trimmed, We> went six hot rounds, and Memsic was given probably the worst trouncing he hag ever received in his entire fighting career, T won the decision by a block. In fact, had the battle been a few rounds longer, I would have hung his scalp In my “Knock-Out Closet,” wherein hang such famous and gallant warriors as Art Simms, Spider Welsh, Martin Ca- nole, Eddie Hanlon, Aurelia Herter | Your Corbett, with a couple 0: notches; Jimmy Britt, Jack Clifford and, to make the morgue complete, have Gans with two such awful dark slashes as anybody would care to see. go the samme route, and English and his friends figured that I would be easy over that distance; however, I found had won hundreds of friends 3 City by ving the lish such a brushing up pre- , and {magina my eurprise and t when upon my arrival thei famous viou d ster, the most famous brother Eagle that files and @ hundred Kansas City ers, The odds at ringside were 0 2 in favor of English, Despite this Missourt friends went down on my ine and sinker for all they ha y said, “Bat, old boy, If you lose to this fellow we'll have to foot 'er all the way back to Kansas ile Bea {ce boy and trim him right,’ did all cht, and my Kansas City friends to his day are spending the money they won on that battle. m ~G a 7% ZZ UP TO DATE, NEWSY AND WELL WRITTEN The -ENaLISHMAn's, Coutarse. Plenty of Room For Beginnersin This Profession In the dressing-rooms of the Wash- ington Club the players were discus- ing the fact that more ballplayers are now going Into law, medicine and other professions than ever be- fore. "I don't believe in taking up one of those professions,” observed Jake Altizer, “They are all overrun now, and there {s not much room for a young fellow, or, an old fellow, for that.” “Well, I know ef one profession in which there is always room at the top," remarked Case Patten, he began tying his shoes. “What profession is that?’ asked Altizer. “Why, the aeronauttc profession,” replied Patten. He barely dodged a dozen spiked shoes that were thrown at him from all sides. plenty of young talent on hand and they expect to develop a few champions. The list of youngsters is exceptionally strong this spring, and in the case of the Giants, in one way It {3 to be re- gretted, for it looks as If there will not be a chance for any man to take tho Place of elther Tenn: or Devlin. to take chances by changing It. » Doyle, Bridwell That infleld {8 too good now Simmone le a Comer. McGraw has one young infielder of whom he {# exceptionally proud. He ts George 6immons, Gants trom New Haven, Conn Wily Abe the Sim- who comes to Will Have to Wait for Jem Driscoll. —_—_>— BY JOHN POLLOCK. T looks now as {f Jem Driscoll, the English champion, and Abe Attell will not get together In a battle at one of the local clubs until Driscoll re- turns here from his trip to Engand, which will be about the latter part of March or early In April. vey, night that if Attell did not meet Driscoll before Feb. % ho would wast until Driscoll was ready to take him on, for his ten-round bout with Leach Cross at the Falrmont A. C, stag on Wednes- day night and \s in the best condition of his career. He says he will try and stop Cross, as he is anxfous to return to England with a clean list of victories | to his credit, ‘Fighting Dick’ Hyland has agreed to) meet Packey McFarland, and the pair were Charley Ha manager of Driscoll, dc lared last have to Driscoll is training hard now time since the | ROK, ,Incidentall Tried to Smother Bat. ieeoilant alantl told p ta) time I have ever p T matghed in 6an Francieco last night to try rents Halt @| are many fighters, however, who will| English tried to smother me with a camel uslons, $n, a tea TT times an his ohte? teenie | tell you It was what put them out, series of lightning swings from the | Coffroth’ enmn ts tif iay attornoon, Tey y helped him Used Blow with Deadly Effoct yery outset. He was determined to| Yin battle 133 pou weigh {in at room. He hed run twant “ot, jut-slug meas well as use his splendid} X. sf. op the day of the fant. They wilt half miles. Longb footwork to disconcert me. waw | begin fighting epsb 9 vice TES ad god passed and lool ’ through his scheme quickly, and in the| s Reread fe feated rival. Then he I first round contented myself with}? ranhthernaee cutity blocking and sparing my blows. I did Ht some of the iecal club managers would was Vory tlred ai crack him two awful jolts in the wind| cut out some of these atar boxers ang put boat In a big white Ge pened pele one ae it-| before the round bad closed, but, he on e few more tiehtere like Battling Hurley and down and clapped her 1 OR ee Peo Wie won the round all right. came le eh ad to the sport, Indian fell ten_minttes Ht ihe’ Badger Athletle Cli \ tl hack again and T worked him into] 1M fet the club. members would peo orl set by Dorando wi a embers menisic wast tilist clinches at every opportunity, Here 1] Setter ‘crave, here was mote real fighting Johany Hayes, ‘kd ime played havoc with his wind and | in two rounds of the Hurley-Griftin bout last : per, At that time he was fresh /PoYT og it with him furiously. Round | night than there wag in the entire ten ~ = a — thee “folind Mt. English bleeding | sounds of the Murphy-Moran contest, Swat Failed to Touch Second in Norway Game Played on Skis B, Bulger, Sporting Department, Evening World: Tunderstand that Swat Millig ca went to Norway and lost a game there that was played in the snow, W: 1 give me the details? STEVE O'BRIEN, City at Large. Tho game in question, Mr. O'Brien, was played while the Peerless Hitter of the mn Oaks was making a tour of the of the Midnight Sun, He had jus t Christiania, Norway, and was re- 0 take part in @ game to be p ran ed off with the he fo e 1 Roing so fai A fieet ot me ts played on tha snow-covered aid Ji Gnd the base runners wear tkis. Milligan as & no’ nteat. | the body of fo on | glacter, three ime the dogs Venttl gay, the, ame, rocked i no Finnegan Fiord boys iad | “By pudding Milligan with the ball, h ile the leat halt ot the. sev: | imlediccely iJ Mulligan was then calied to | "How 1m: ¢ On @ ul palr of skis he| the Pearless 1 up to the plate, The Finnegan Ford | "tt was a coher knew. of and rt vied ong un tha beat of nth, inning. bat. prowess with the | had been aummon: Ball that was | Pave tort inet tt with all | power In nia muscular body, His a! accurate that the fielders were i with a shower of Icteles and Mull, 3. on bis momentous cireuit of rile vorue in that bal Teov vei sffens 15" break ha looratanding recar at Bovbieiown, platnes i ground. ten touch se > be played over, sion of Finnies: passed on the case, tie the true story, Mr. O'Brien, and, Incidentally, It te the firet time that Mult iy tle odeMaN BULGER, jational Commis: had already pretty badly and, strange to relate, breaking ground like a good fellow. }This round was all mine, I bad him covering up, crying foul and doing his) best to stall through. was now a shame to take the money, I stepped in and biffed him @ counter with my right In’ the wind which straightened him up. The balance of the fight went all m; it! 1 was handed down regular United States dollars, My Kansas City frends had bet $500 for me as well. 89 mediately wired every cent of It home to mother. Won $23,000 That Year, This signal victory concluded my year’s work. I had won in purses ,000, besides, of course, much more tn aide bets, &c. I began the year fighting for $6. I ended up by earning $1,000 in one evening. ‘Though the year wae ended and I was still a long way from the lightweight championship, I had learned Cae that was destined to bring me fame fortune, I had-learned to deliver the halt-scissora hook, and I made up my mind to try tt out In the next 1 then went home end teok a long rest. I/ was determined to get a fresh start and | go after the top-notch ‘honors, | Chapter XII. of the Battling Nei! son stories will appear in The Bve- round fight vy meine of Ho eavy wel rox | Tn round four 1 uncorked my spectal | four way, Think of | 2%, the club has always put on good Cat give stated that Tommy Murphy would be ablé to box in for bis coming twenty- mo Mevey. In Paris on fe, the colored light Hoboken, will tackle Harry Engilsh heavyweight, for twenty show to Balls? off at Wonder. ht. Croxton. Will, probably often by Jeannette that Ags jittle warm: with | jalf-scissors hook, which true to its} it so fast see eee landed bard on his iiver, Back |he will imagine some one is hurling boxing he went with both arms to his sides, It | gloves at him, pepen Johnny Oliver, » of the New Polo said last night that his club would {ts boxing stags again next Friday Johnny, fs busy now getting together card of bouts for the occasion. Ae As be another hummer. Oliver ought, to for about three weeks 4 stood, or rather I was carried tere Tt ring in possession of $1,500— | 00 account of Injured hand. Qsmal fortune then, Ag URW), 1 UM. | TY, TO-NIGHT’S FIGHTS. At tie Long Acre A. C, stag— Tommy Tracey, of Bayonne, vs, Young Kerrigan, of Hoboken, in th main bout of six rounds, In the other bouts, Johnny Moran vs. Kitts, Frankie Mango vs. Tommy and Young Alberts vs. Jobmny Connolly. At the National A. C., of Brook- lyn, stagBddle Rector vs, Denny McDonald, six rounds. The other bouts will bring together Wreddie Dipples and JoJe Gordon, Johnny Roth and Ernie Ross, George Mc- Geery and Bill Harned, and Willie Donnelly and Lew Fisher. HALE sag, W LooKeg PAs’ SHause UAB 1S “THAY UNDIAM SMe. ees Seat Simmons of the Giants aud Knight of the Highlanders Look Like Stars, mons lives fn Broo} wanted to be @ yn and has alweye uber of the Giants, {Simmons was signed by the Montreal chub last season, but didn’t get @ chance to show what he could do before | he was sold to New Haven, Arriving in town of the New England picked up a big bat, Ww owhat he was sd out a batting 8 generally ad- Judged int as going some, | In addition to his ty to hit the ball wi the fielders ain't," Simmons 1 out for extr 3 until r tongues out chas. Of his 158 tra bases. tle eb ct) r Inflelders, be a handy mmons has | y of the regu believes he w Jousting a McGraw man to keep are McGraw 1s also [expecting much from Herzog, Mar- quard, Durham and Murray, It'ts use. less to tell anything about Herzog and |Murray, for the fans of New York know all about them. ‘Their positions are cinched. Marquard and Durham will be worked continually during the first three weeks, dit is expected that Marquard will pitch a large ma- jority of the exhibition games, “What le needs,” says MeCraw, “is a Mttle ine struction and plenty of work.” New Catcher an Indian Fred Meyers, the new catehe: Indian, and they say that he {ts some hitter as well as a we ful thrower, Meyers 1s a full-blooded Chippewa, He stands six feet In his stocking feet and weighs close to 2” pounds, On the bases he ix as fleet as a deer. One man on whom Stallings {s de pending is Quinn, lls new pitcher, Quinn is a big fellow of broad shoul- dere and six feet tall, Al Orth, who saw hin work last year, says that he will be a wonder. Jack Knight, howaver, 1s expected to be the one great star In Stalling’s Hat, Sammy Strang, o played with him last season at Baltimore, says he ts the most wonderful fielder he ever saw, and Sammy does not except W: Wallace or Bridwell. Knight 18 al Jliard hitter, He should be a power in the Infield, It ts the present purpose of Stallings to try Elberfeld at third base. He thinks the Kid will make @ {great man at that corner of the dia- mond, Chase will certainly be on first, and with Knight a fixture at short it looks as if second base ts the only job open to competition. For that job the | race will be between Laporte, Gardiner and Neal Ball, Elther of them would be a winner. Free To Boys Boy Who Will Do Me A Small You Gan Hare One, Lb} Favor, ong aide, No our heels or plot th your feet, Not one boy ‘one of these aled ut Httle easy work. Write tell you all about ft. 2 Popular Bldg, Des Melnes, lowa, one for and I will \ 4