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Who remembers Tom Longboat By ED HARPER Chay Torontos Jerome Drayton defeated field of almost 4000 runners in the gruelling 26mile 385yard Boston Marathon on Monday It was the fifth attempt at winning this race for the 32 yearold Drayton who finished the course in two hours 14 minutes and 46 seconds This was the Slst running of the Boston Marathon and all the great distance runners through the years have given this race try But there robably never was runner so geat in the race as the long orgotten Tom Longboat who won the Boston Marathon in April 1907 almost 70 years to the day He won it in the recordbreaking time of 22424 record that was not broken until the course was made much easier Longboat defeated field of 125 in the Boston Marathon that he won running on very hilly course through slush snow and rain to achieve his victory Tom Longboat was the toast of Canada and his name was known everywhere He was toasted and dined but Tom could not cope with the adulation that was forced upon him as sports hero and was suspended by the YMCA when he was found drinking and smoking and not adhering to his strict training rules Two hotel owners Tom Flanagan and Jim ORourke part ners in the Grand Central Hotel had formed the Irish Canadian Athletic Club and persuaded Tom to join their club Flanagan immediately took Longboat in hand and acted as his trainermanager Be trained hard under Flanagan and won the 1907 Caledon and Ward Marathons and won 12 mile race at the $00 and 15 mile race in Montreal It was found that Flanagan and ORourke had cashed some large wagers on Longboat and Tom was declared rofessional by the US Amateur Athletic Union in Novem er 1907 It was asserted that he had always been professional from the start of his running career it was known that he had run iii many races for money The Canadian press and the public did not question Toms status as an amateur or professional and called the Americans poor sports and every name that could be put in to print in those days The London Sporting Life one of the most influential spor ts papers at the time pointed out that Longboat had no visible means of support that he was getting free living at the Grand Central Hotel and at best he was stallfed amateur Longboat was made proprietor of King Street cigar store in Toronto in order to keep his amateur standing iii violate Longboat was very heavy smoker of cigars and it is said that he smoked up half of the profits from the store Tom somehow made the Olympics of 1908 the committee declairng him eligible for the games But although Longboat took the lead and set very hot pace for the first eight miles he then slowed down to trot and at 19 miles left the race Longboat had been such big favorite in this race for the Olympic Championship that immediately rumors started flying that he had been doped and that his manager and cronies had made killing on bets But if the truth were known Tom was inadequately trained and not in proper con dit ion for such race Longboat went on to great things in running and the In dian lad who came off the Onandaga Reserve to be sports hero had many ups and downs in his career mostly caused by greedy people who saw money making product in Longboat When you consider that Toms time in the Boston Marathon of 1907 was only nine minutes and 238 seconds slower than Draytons time on Monday running on far tougher course and in very bad weather conditions it makes one wonder has the long distance runner improved much over the years Track meet at Eostview on Tuesday Eastview Secondary School will host an invitational track and field meet on Tuesday Eastview Barrie North Col legiate Central Collegiate and the rillia District High School will take part in the oneday event According to Eastview track and field coach Bob Warner it is designed to give the four schools an opportunity to get in to some competition and to give the coaches chance to evaluate their personel The schools can enter anyone they choose ifthey want to see how good he or she he said It is reallyjust training meet but we will keep points score well The athletes will compete in the hurdles the 100 meters 200 meters 800 meters high jump longjump and the shot put Barrie Rugby Club to play York Simcoe Barrie City Rugby Football team is meeting York Simcoe in twtrgame series at Barrie Central Collegiate on Saturday The first and second teams tangle with the first match set for pm Second match is at pm The city club is participating in an exhibition schedule in preparation for league compet tion which is expected to begin in the near future The City club will be meeting touring club from London England late in the summer Raceway entries Sat iird Post TIllll 15 piii FIRSI PACE IIIE 530 IIIMMY TB It NIARIU FROST Durhano ty IRELADS LEIA Rowe Diikcoflsotton Brown Elmer Marx Brown Diane Parkti Purtly Woody Will Clement Rcruii Lcatlierdilc SECOND 15 MILE 3500 III ALICE Rowe SIEADY PAINTER Brown HAW LEA CARIBEE Liness Kawiirtha Ideal MacArthur 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Junior Tankard Mrs Marion Ribalkin centre along with sons loliii left and Scott were on hand to present skip War nica standing at left Ivan McDonougli viceskip Mark Fisher second atid Jamie Collie lead with the trophy Mostiiiiproicd curler of the Banic Curling Club is John Pugslcy right Jack Lloyd of the Barrie Curling Chili presented Iiigsley with the Robert Cranficld Mtmoriiil Plaque Ex aminer Photos Curling clubs season closes on busy note The end to the curling season at the Barrie Curling Club Thursday was anything but ordely It ended in blazcof ac tivity celebration and the crowning of the winncr of the tournament of champions The rink of Ray Orr won the final major curling event of the season with 83 win over Bob Hebdeiis entry But even the champions found themselves caught upin the bustle Orr finished the game without the services of his se cond Dr Eugene Kosar Dr Kosar was called out twice during the cightcnd final to deliver baby He left after his first rock and returned for the third end before being call ed out once more With rr were Cameron Bain lead Dr Kosai and Bill Duncan Icatl They received the Robert Whiting Memorial Trophy in honor of winning the weeklong playoff of all the trophy winners of the three schedules It was night of presenta tions with one of the most im portant going to John Pugslcy winner of the Robert Cranfield Memorial Plaque as the clubs most iinprovul curler Pugslcy of Barrie has been curling for four years It usually goes to someone who is almost horrible to some one can throw stone joked Iack Lloyd in prssenting the trophy to Puglscy Its big honor only one guy in the whole club gets this added Lloyd who is gaincs chairman for the 197778 season Also on hand was the rink of on Glasman which won the District Business Girls cham pionship and matte it to the semifinal of the Southem tario Ldies Curling Association SOLCA final With skip Glasman were Sue Stanbury viccskip Penny Dobko second and Dianne McLindtn lead SPECIAL AWARD There was special award iii troduced to the Curling Club Ihursdaythc William Ray Ribalkin Memorial Award It is to be offcrcd annually to the Barrie clubs finalists in the Ontario Curling Association lunior Tankard The foursome skipped by ilcn Warnica is first rink to have its name etched on the trophy Mrs Marion Ribulkin and sons Scott and John Wcrc on hand Thursday to make the presentation With Warnica are Ivan McDonough viceiskip Mark Fisher second and Jamie Col lie as lead social night tonight for the men and jitncy Saturday re main before Curling Club of ficially closes the doors on another season of curling The newlyelected executive has set aside November as the time to celebrate the clubs entcnnial Year Activities had been planned for this season but three provin cial finals the SOLCA lassies high school girls and Intermediates finalscut into the preparations Siskins lose 7l to Exeter Hawks face big game tonight in Stoyner EXEIEltStayner Siskins could find themselves on the sidelines after tonights Junior delayoff game unless there is rustic change from their per formance in the first three games Siskins lost their third con sccutive game to the Exeter Hawks 71 Thursday to give Excter 30 and in the bestof sevcn Ontario Hockey Associatin finals Nothing is going right for us All year weve been down and been able to battle back Stayner coach Paul Carruthers said This series we havent done anything right Everytime we make mistake theyre right there to pounce on it and put it in the net Exeter jumped in front 20 at the end of the first period led at the end of the second and added three unanswered goals in the last period to win 71 We missed all kinds of chances Carruthers said We had three or four breakaways but couldnt put the puck in the net Rick Iowan got the lone Stayner goal early in the second period on power play Its entirely up to the guys whether We win any game in this series or not he said We arent skating the way we can Itsa shame to go asfar as we have and thenjust die The fourth game in the series is scheduled for Stayner tonight at 030pm VVV Winners of the tournament of champions at the Barrie url ing Club was the rink of Ray Orr at right His foiirisomc completed weeklong tournament with the top rinks of the club by defeating Bob Ilebdcn in the final Members of tlic spor FIyers eliminate Leafs winning rink are at left Cameron Baiii lead Bill Duncan viceskip Chuck Knapp presenting the trophy to skip rr Missing is Dr Eugene Kosar who as called out during the game to deliver baby Knapp is the soniiiIaw of Lorne Witliiiig who the trophy is in memory of on late goal by Watson By THE CANADIAN PRESS The greatest goal of defen ceman Jim Watsons National Hockey League career enabled Philadelphia FIyers to continue on their quest for third Stanley Cup in four years Watsons goal his first of the playoffs came with 238 left in the third period Thursday night and gave the FIyers 43 vic tory over Toronto Maple Leafs The ycrs whose prospects looked dini when they dropped the opening two games at home in the bestofsevcn quarter final serics won the next four games including two ovcitiint triumphs Its my biggest goal ever the most important goal of my career Watson said after firing bouncing puck over sprawling Wayne Thomas in the Toronto goal In the semi finals tlic Flycrs will meet Boston Bruins who ousted Los Angeles Kings in six games with 473 victory Thur sday night on Gregg Sheppards powerplay goal with 702 remaining The unassisted smrc negated threegoal thirdperiod comeback by the Kings who trailed 30 after one period The other semifinal will match the defending champion Golf association Montreal Canadiens against New York Islanders ilYS WORKEDIIARD We didnt have real good series against the Leafs but my guys worked hard said Philadelphia coach Fred Shcro They worked like heck to comeback and win this series Shcro gave lot of credit to defenceman Bob Dailey acquired from Vancouver anticks late in the season in exchange for Jack Mcllhargcy and Larry ioodcnough Dailey played solid dctcnr sivc gainc Ihursday and scored his second goal of the playoffs late in the sccond pcriod Bobby Election of new executive highlight annual meeting The annual spring meeting of the Hiiroiiia District loll Association was held earlier this wcck zit the Barrie Country Club Highlight ing the meeting was the election of new executive and the setting up of the tour namcnt schedule The new executive includes hniriiiun ltitll llartniuii Midland toll Club Past chairman Junt Cowan Burrit Country Club Handicap chairman Muriel Lakin Collingwood Bliic Mouir tain iolf Club IttllllSIICltll Barrie Country Club Course RalingsCladys Jansen Barrie Country Club rSccrctaryltlac Scldoii Midland iolf Club loiirnaincntBcryl Csuniri tc Lake St icorgc loll Club Tollingwood Blue Mountain Iolf Club will host Better ball tournament July 28 The District championships are slated for the Shanty Bay Golf Club Aug 1011 with the scniors tournament set for the Midland Brooklca Club Sept l4 Midland loll Club is hosting an invitational tournament on Mordcii Central losesto Pickering PICKERING Staff Bar ric Central Senior Redskins missed an opgxntunity to move up iii this years rugby stair dings as they dropped 100 dccisioti to Pickering Collegiate in Pickering Ihursday Central came up flat in the first half and Pickering took ad vantage of this to move ahead 60 In the second half Central came up much stronger but where unable to penetrate Pickeringsdefence Pickering scored late in the half to remove any possibility of tie Ian Cathcry and Paul Laking both played strong games for Barrie Central meets akWood Cole legiatc Thursday at Central Registration for soccer The Barrie Minor Soccer league is holding its second registration day Saturday at the Barrie Arena between amand4pm Registration was up 25 per cent after the first registration day last weekend July 14 With the Canadian Forv ces Bast Borden Club setting aside Sept for an invitational tournament Other important tournament dates to watch out for are July 12 13 at lmidonJtinior girls July It 31 at KingstonLadics Amateur Aug 010 at Windsor Seniors Aug 23 at Hamilton Bcttcr Ball Sept at Stouffvillc National Handicap Award At the annual meeting silver tray was prcsentcd to Leslie Price of the Collingwood Bltic Mountain club for the greatest reduction of handicap lowering it to 17 from 244i per ccntagcof2£i17 Ladies section opens golf season on May IO Ladits scction of the Barrie iolf and Country Club has set aside May It as the officia opening of the golf season The dtitc was set at rcccn incctiiig Plans and golf date for lllt season were HlSt discussed Serving as new president foi the ladies section will be iltltt Ougy Ede Corby is the past president with Pat McKerrull serving as secret ary Ircasurei is lloria Graham Handicap chairinai is llclcn Idcson with Shirley Pickle thc coconvener Wilma Anderson is social chairman with Joyce Love toconvener Captain is Sharon Bowdcn vicecaptaiti is Shirley MacDonald Lois Sullivan is chairman of the nincholc section Betty Coffey is in charge of tlic Iwiliglit Scc tioii Chris Garner is publicity director with Maij Hickling the county delegate Clarke and Rick MacLeish had the other Philadelphia scores Lanny McDonald continued to be the Leafs top scorer get ting his ninth and 10th goals of the playoffs Ian Turnbull scored the other Toronto goal Turnbull gave Toronto at 10 lead with the only score of the first period but Clarke tied it with an unassisted goal at 410 of the second RILSTORICS LEAD McDonald restored the Leaf lead at 17 ot the second when he took pass from Darryl Sit tlcr and ltil Flycrs netminder Waync Stephenson from the cdgc of thc taccotf circle But Dailey tied it at 1330 taking centering pass from Clarke McDonald put the Leafs in front 32 early in the third but Maclcisli scored on power play itli the Leafs Mike Pelyk in the penalty box to tie the score anti sct the stage for Wat sonssericscnding goal The Imus lost all three of their home games at Maple lAat tiardens They also lost their only home game in the preliminary round against Pit tsburgh Penguins Games get symbolic kickoff LAKE ILACII tReu teri Symbolic groundbreak ing ceremonies were held Thur sday to mark the start of con Slllltliiill of some new and some renovated facilities for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games The construction work will provide about 430 jobs and boost to the economy of this Adirondack mountain village which has biin unem ployment rate Ilclcn Carey ITyearold daughter of New York Gov Hugh Carey and President Carters son Chip attended the ceremonies Awards night formally ends season Simcoc County Mens Basketball League president Doug Andrews centre presents the clitiiiipionship trophy to cocaptiiins Gary liiskccp left and Nick Owen right of the and Disposers at the leagues awards banquet Thursday in Midland Disposers on the title by beating Stayncr 7772 in the deciding game of bcstotJiu championship series earlier this week Examiner Photo