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ATHON RACE
ATTLE VICTORY
ANNOUNCEMENT
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ii i i inttMiiiR urn up mi ninn centuries liefoie ' And this from I'.iul I'llRrlni, out
niiuimr uin il uud Tlir l'nrlsluti Lcmurnlnux - was or ttic world's greatest intiMIc din-
i ii ii iins tit Muathuii er tired then, anil I'lnck the Aus- tapec runtierR, nil OI)inplc first
i In whut ikwk did ha trnllnn, pnnBinl hltn Mcniiuhllc the place winner.
lnw! tin toiini; man Creek Uinen, was draw Iiir up Blow) M luio wof mam men who Iinw
lil ii (l lulu I lie great plain l I'dUowIng him w.in a cit)tl ft din had to t!hc up nthletltH nnd exci
Miiiiiiuiik ni'ie wont to his little Ullage almost u riiiuiI else," he sa, 'localise of n heart
First Race Was Run Over
Route Taken By
Messenger
ills heart uuHsr
FROM URBIFIC STRAIN
i in i
iniii He u i-po I out lilx t!ieiise of of honor I.Hitrcntls was out of It. wc.iKencil l)j too much nthlctlcn
Thou the rrenthtnan KlnKRered Lieut Sam Thomas, of lho Seventh
nnd fell He was cnrrled nwn Kcgltncnt, Now Yorh, had to finest
Next Luucs, the (Ircch, pniped Kliclt, athletics hccatiFc nf n heart warning
the Australian Iheti ri.ul. col- Three jc.irs nno ho held sprint, pole
lapsed and was carried nn union- ault and hroad Jump icrords i:i
srlous Limes was In the lead. liner I'lnlny, tho New Yorh nthletit
In the stadium nt Athens n great hurdler, has heen ordcicd lo htcal
to Athens ntlciwnid. was Phehllp- Lompati was Rathcred. The specta- training liy his phjslclnns Only n
plih-i llp'inlottis Father of Ul3- tors were nnxlnuslj awaiting tho little while uro he held records ga
ton dies not mention his name, lint arrival ftom Marathon Sud- lore
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in on mil did! He had run 2(
n Hi nnd "r Minis which today
hi b IikiAih the classic Marathon
I illMtamc
I The host historians sa; Unit this
MiuiiK Ik ro who not onlv fought in
,ihi li.it Uc. hut inn finm Marathon
iiiiuier delil a (allium was llred All ceH
Milt IoiIm the rowm rniicnl of weic fixed on the elitinnce. Then a
n, urn iniipis him an ilu hero So form slowl run Into the arena It
'In is'ic, the histoid iiuiiio wis re- was l.oues, sunhiirned and covered
Pirt Races and Hen Who Itari Them iuu for the first time from Marathon with dust, hut still game
What Physicians Say of to the great stadium In Athens ertet- The Crown Prince of Greece nnd
Training of Ath- 'id on the site of Hint other stadium Prince lleorgo Jumped from their
lctei if olden dnjs, now eriimhleil to dust boxes to greet him Taking places
ihroiihh the Injise of the centuries. hj his side thej run with him, one
Virion" KaspiMl i'ii. Nomig sol-, , ttn t pojsibie in ti)sc on tho right, the other tin the left
flier from Mai itlion m he lott icd indent this for men to inn so far Umes hie.islcd tho tape gallantb
Iftto thciis Him In ilhit nil fust" And women, too? He-j nnd walked oxer to the lojnl box
Ills mer-t.-. o.iti ,M ,l hcail li;-,rnu m "'" '" imining i-ne- wncre me King of ureccc sal.
niipinnes nun neon an amino ccn noweu anil inc iing iool on:
crally hurst
Tun the out 1 1
hud olunleeied to'
i hefore he was n soldlei He amc nrhllnir i.m .nut wnvnd It nntliiisl
iiisuini nom me rrom it f-imlli of athletes, tiiuliiulitcil- nbtlr.ill
battlefield of Muiathun to Athens ly No doubt his mother, as a girl
And then l.oues went nwa to icnt
Ho was fatigued, but not exhaust'
ed Ho had dune tho historic Mara
KiUh the news thai the (lioeks In fur!1""' b"" n iiinnei, t
lew force had beaten tli,. hiudr nf ' In Uiojo nlilen ds women and
Invading Pirshns and lui I driven ' Girls. wcl1 nR llos and men. en-' thon course In 2 hours, 51 minutes
'them bntk to thcli ships with gieat j l,,ed the nlhlcth games It was 'and 20 seconds, the (list record
slaughter nothing against a woman s modesty l.oues' tlmo was n record foi this
And that Is win we have the twen. lo ,al' l"rt ' nmnlng and Jumping reason
tlelh renliiM Mai ji lion a relli ,,f against thoro of hoi own six Some No lecord had been kept of Phe
tho (lasKli dns of to long, long ago "' ' giontcst of Orcels statues and Idlppldcs time when ho ran with his
Totlaj when ilu M-irafhon iraze trtorm that have survived to our
with Its Ihm i In i iMug iiait, hn ,,n "V" wi"on nnd gills In nthlet
raught the wliik i untiv we are ll contests And men looked on.
,JiHkltiK lust Hi. ji n f liiiim .'4011 And how did the) train for these
DrenrB aihi Hi. Him git it Mniitlhoii sublime events in theli lives' Prl
iun whldi (iit the lojincr his liri -ril , the led the simple life A
Marathon w is a plain on the legul ir diet was prescribed for those
lioriheast coast of Altlia, upon w,'o wanted to excel In atlilctlcs.
which lav four llhigos. smiled upon 'rlle (1r(,c, athlet chthewed wine nnd
Jijr the southern sun Mnraihou, 'I rank nothing but wnim water He
tl'roballiillios, Olnoe and Trborjthos. ",e llcx dieese. boiled grnln and
iriiey foimed a tetiapolls. oi Ut "rlul "KH Meat was not allowable
niado up of four towns, ll was ill-1 of ,u-1' people cma tho runner of
' A'ldcd from tho plnln of Athens bv lllc origin I Marathon, who g-ue his
-Mount Penlellius nnd the bill) dl- llfl' '" ll" "c Htnee without tnus-
- trlel nf Dlnci In Ing foi a lest No doubt, loo. tho
'. At llmi this telraiiolls governed Marnthon hero had taken n part lull Queen Olgn sent Sherrlng n bo-
"ltolr, but nfleiwanl It Joined the "l0 sailed Olvinplnn games, or else quct. and he was showered with ros-
Athcnlan State though It retained ,,D ollll neer ll!le ma(I lll run ' es nn he went through the marble
message from Marathon, and Hi 1890
the first test was really mnilo of men
and time Ten jenrs later there was
anothei Marathon nt tho Olpmplc
names at Athens with flfU-thrco en
tries lint this time the flist Greek
to finish was fifth.
Y J Sherrlng, a Cnnndlan, won.
As he entered the stadium ho was
met bj Pilnco Gcorre wio nn with
him the entlio leiir'h of the stadium
Almost all of the Ml lino people with
in tho stadium were (iieek Hvmpn
thlzcrs, hut the tool, their tue from
the sportsmanlike tonduit of their
t Prince and ihcered Sherrlng henill
Gorman phjslelaus weie lunkltiR
a stud of tho effects of a compell
Hon on the heart nt the last set of
Obinplc games nt Athens Before
and nftcr every race the placed tls
sue paper ovtr my ihest and traced
tn heart on the paper '
"Ilpertraphy of the heart," said
)r Arthur I,. Dcr-hfleld, of New
York, captain of the Now York I'nl
erdty track tenm and a middle ills
lanco runner, "la the result of a ion
o tinned extensive ltidiilgitMC In nth-
his letlcs It seems to mo that the warn
ing would ho tlmelv
"llovs in the high school, college
men. athletic club meiubeis, alter
nately train and ince to the limit o
their endurance foi the period of r
few mouths Then Ihev lav off am!
perhaps dissipate for the rcm.ilndcj
of tho cnr. The effeit Is a genani
enlargement of the In-'irt oi a gen
crnl weakening of the svstetn
"In these strains at llrst the
walls of the heart, cspcdallv of thr
left ventricle, heroine enlarged, nnd
flnnlt, If work Is not stopped In
tltnc ,tho organ falls to do Its work
nnd ultimate! collapses
And that Is what the Marathon
race docs Pheldlppldes died foi
something worth while Hut thous
ands of half-grown Inds, striving ti
win a Marathon all phvsldans ngrec
are la danger of killing or crip
pllng themselves foi no reason at all
cxicpt for n cup uud a llttlo one-da)
glory
liiueh of Its original distinctive ihar- "''"' "Khtlng all da) In battle
actor There Apollo was llrst woi- Kor f e-iis. accordlngl) ns
shipped, and theme this wmshlp wastl"' m""n' "lllcl1 nniked tho Greek
carried to thens, when the tBtinpo- nildsiiinnier, drew lo Its full, a pll
11s became part of the gnat Allien- Erlnngo of all that was best and
Ian stale Heie lm lleruiles was vigorous In Hell is niirlenl Greeco
ilret sot up as i god The lleiaill-, ended Ht the llttlo plain of OI)iu-
'4ilre.i dos ondints of Henules. mj P. I Ui. tlm tiill ll tm tho
inclr inteptfon lien, ami lien- sprang i ",B,CI" lml '" ici"ii"i,"n nm
lip the legend of the self sin ilfl, e of)!'""0 "I"1 natuinl harriers of the
Incarla, the daughKr of JlLrculos niountalns and river, bonio fifteen
And on the plain of the telrnpolls . Illea fr,im l,'e wn
tho horo Theseus slew tho Mara- Long biforc the beginning of tho
fistlval heinlds went forth through
out ( recce, to pioslaliu n truce, dur
ing which all lighting must cease be
tween clt) and stato and between
Rtate and state A whole month of
peine wns pioelalmed so flint tho
Hellenic 0iHh tliould ho able to
tiavel unmolested from tho utter
most boundaries of Hellas In order to
inalH' tho offering of their piety and
their vigor to tho 0l)inplnu Zeus at
Hlls
Tho plain of OI)mpla was sacred
ground it was dedicated to Zeus
or Jupiter their god of gods, and
cmitulnid on Its northernmost sldo
t lio nit Is, or h met inn In this sanc
tum w.ih the temple of Zeus nnd tho
temple or I lei a There were nltars
to Vpln'oillle. oi Venus, and to Do
moter This s mrtiitn was adorned
Ii) some of the most beautiful ex
amples of Gieelan art, Including the
thonlau hull
Hut gieatcbt or all. Hie plain of
Marathon deiives its chief fume from
the great battle of Mainthoi mnk
tr of hlstor) - when an ami of
30,000 Athenians and 1 not) Platn-t-ans
llttnl routed a hnide of 100,
POO I'eiHlituM The Lieut Oreo' sol
tiler Milltaihx i oinniauded the llt
tlo force from Alhen i Halls ami r
tapberiies lid til Persian host Ai
laphoinea wns the uephew of King
Darius of Persia, who hud soul this
Mighty forte l (onqiui nil (iivtte
nnd innke It t ilbutury to hltn
It wns a blttei struggle Sumo of
Hlo Greek tilbes weie even willing to
welcome the Invni'litg I'eislans, but
lint tho Athenians, in whose lii.iull
flll laplial was eheilshed all thai
as best In tireere To Iiup nioaut
to go undei the vole ol the Peisluu
King
Hut Mill hubs trlunudiiMl with n xnulslte statue of Zeus by tho crc.it
force only i tenth ns great IluGitok sculptor Phidias.
Orove off tho nnogntit Peisfaus to! Hut Hieie wero no more Marn
tholr ships, the) leaving n. 1 on dead , thoiiH in thost ihi)s Novor again
lition the lltld Mlltlaitis Inn led I US was that hlstorli raio inn until
Of his nun on llin field, ,md ufter-18!)fi, when, at the new OI)inple
vrnid the giatifiil l.ieoks Pietlcd a games, the Gieel, Govuinment Insll
aHt tumulus tn I In Ir honor tilted the Miuathon into Tho start
The ilt or Athens nwultcd tho wns on the plain of Miuathon, the
outcome ()r tho expected UntHu, al- finish In tho gieat now stadium built
mogl liopeleis Mere ihey to lone I In Athens.
tliir all nnd in viiSBnlspfnhaib.il-1 Tho iiinners, light! chid, Dtaited
lau ,oi wiip ihev to toottniie, free off with theli atlendnntB on blcjcles,
mill t ite, ubli to pieseivo thtli clas-'wlth Gieek olllrera on horseback
Mb tiKiils'' I iriiui illiiz- tlulr Irmriinv l'livslehins
t"1' Mlltlailtt knew al tlili. Ilu'wem statlomd along tho loulo to
Know tlie) moiled uio nvVs Ho glvo nld If necessai.
'JdiRW It o, tint man ma inn foi At Plki nnl. tho rrenchman I,om-
tvviuit)-slj; inllej fastar than a horso uisluuv was leading, followed ly tho
an run. Austialiiin, rinck; lllako, tho Aliieil-
"Who will take the news of tliulou, tho Hungarian, Koliicbo, and
I 'victory lo Minns'' he 1 1 led then the Greek runners, the first of
'Mi"I will," .said a oulliful soldlei, wliom was Laurontls
. Blopiilng from th" milks I in passing Plkcrml I-nues, n
' ''IJtlt this wns i nwdust linck orlGuek from Jlaioussl, took a glass of
,-jiliitadainlzod load i.vor wliid- the 'wine and asked Infoimatlou nliout
bearer of tho glnd H IIiiks had to those ahead of hlni He leal ued that
inn It was up hill mid d.ivn dsle llhiKe, the Amerl-un, had stopped
oior sanil nnd rock, tnroftrli hiutl At Ktirviitl Lo'imislaux was tllll
nnii water. On, on, on he run leudlng and Thick vas second
arch leading to tho dressing rooms,
Hut, best of all, Sherrlng clipped
nrarlv seven minutes from the icc
oid Ills time wns 2 hours. SI min
utes, 2J 3-.ri seconds. The second
man heat the tlmo of the winner of
ten cnrs before
And let sonio of those people who
run Marathons In this tountry over
sawdust trntks or around .basob ill
fields realize the difference The real
Miuathon itiurso Is on tho high road
from Marathon to Athens, and Is
steep and hill) until within two
miles of Athens, It Is the lint dost
com so for tho distance which ath
letes over have cssa)cd.
Then cnino tho groat London Mnr
athon of last )ear, which llttlo John
ny Hn)cs, of New York, managed to
win, after Oorando, tho groat Ital
ian runner, itillapscd 410 )ards from
the finish Tho inco was started on
the cast lawn of Windsor C.istlo und
finished at tho stadium In Shepherd's
Hush, London, Jln)cs mado tho reg
ulation distance In 2 hours, 55 min
utes and IS 2-5 seconds.
Since then wo have had nothing
hut Marathons In this great country
of inns, which rcall) i overs quite n
few moro aires than Greece At tho
polo grounds. Now York, St. 1cb,
tho I'ront hnian, laid down n new ioc
ord of 2 bonis, 10 minutes, fiO 2-5
seconds, beating such veteran Mara
thon men as Douimlo, llines, Sluu-
bo, Mnlono nnd Longboat. Tho four
men who Mulshed all beat tho origi
nal Marathon lecord, hut they run
on n turf truck nnd not up hill and
down dale. It was no such course as
poor Pheldlppldes had to run
And now tomes tho aucstlnn : '
Who Is fit to run n Marathon?
Tho first nnswor Is no porson
under eighteen years of ago, nnd
really ho ought to ho older than that.
Few leallie tho strain on tho heart.
Tho boy who tackles n Marathon to
day will feol Its 111 cffectB twenty
carH from now In his heart action
There must bo strict training, plenty
of good food, plenty of sloop, no In
tnxlcnuts nnd careful attention lo
details. Luck never won a Mara
thon nn trainer will toll tho
nnl lie that axiom
Head what tho doctois and tho
athletes sa :
"Sometimes tho aortic valve gives
wn," said Di James Gwnthmny, of
the Pol)cllnlo Hospital, Now York
City, "or else tho heart becomes en
hugid Hut it must bo icincmbercd
(Continued from Page 9.)
Chief Steward Wcstaway Ins heel
eighteen )curs connected with tin
billet of steward, being on the Paclflt
Mall, tho Oceanic Company, and will
the transport ktvIco slnco It war
originated Tls said ho Is shortly K
retire from the government, nnd opci
up n coal, wood and grocery huslnesi
In Krlfco, his old homo, where hn hii
n host of friends who know his nbllltv
In tho conunlsslart line.
Cook John Ilarrct, of tho 7th Hand
Is tho biggest man on this trip of tin
Sheridan He halls from Dctiolt nm
last evening, In order to glvo tho pee
pie of his homo town a trout ho pib
for n wireless measago fiom tho shlj
to Detroit, telling tho homo people ol
nbout tho voyage.
Halt. Scrgt -Major Gcorgo 11 Ham
grovor, of tho 7th finished today a 17
pago lotter to a friend In Detroit, ami
will mail samo as Boon as wo react
Honolulu.
There Is a nice library In tho nlTlct
of tho transport q. in,, Cnpt. Campbell
U. Ilabcock, which Is uviillahlo to all
passengers In llrst and socond class
upon tho p.i)ment of Ono Dollar foi
tho trip This monoy goes to pay the
rental on tho piano, tho surplus belnE
used to pttrclruo moro hooks.
THE OENTLE FERREIRA
Itccatda Hniizn 1'en elra tolls nln
tales concerning hor husband In the
libel foi dlvorco tiled In tho Circuit
Court She ssi)8 that he Is In tho habit
of calling her vile names, Btalng out
nights mid lotiirnlug homo In tho
morning (trunk, kicking nnd heating
her Ho iipiears to bo a filthy sort of
man, for she sn)s ho gao her voiniln
He If is ordered hor out of tho houso
mid niailt her stny out: has taken her
lo his paitnts' homo and mado hor eat
food not suitable for hor; has blacked
her e)o and to cap tho climax of all
his cruellies, ho had her committed
to tho Insane iisluni for two weeks
although shu was not lus mo. Hut If
all tho sn)s of his treatment of her Is
Hue, It Is a wonder she Is not crui)
I)) this time
( nearly naked, striving to gut theio peasant!, had piupaitid a crow
k'nt tho earliest moment wit' hN ghul be placed nn the head of tho lender
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tidings tlioit it went n (lie I leiiimnun
' A" Athens wns nwnltlng nm uud vvnB plans! on his head
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rthojiiMd, the K"ri's '"' 'ho ,oui-Jlilll- the hll that rheldlppldes had
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