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The Hamilton Herald Newspaper and cigar store owner "Billy" Carroll, originated and sponsored the "Herald Road Race", the first Around the Bay Road Race, run on Christmas Day, 1894. Thirteen racers ran the 19 mile and 168 yard course around Hamilton Harbour. Billy Marshall won the race and was awarded a $25 silver cup and some boxes of cigars.
With Spyridon Louis, Athens, 1906 Plaque in Hamilton. During the decade of the early 1900s, Sherring, from Hamilton, Ontario [2] was acknowledged to be a world class marathoner. He had won a second place behind a fellow countryman Jack Caffery at the Boston Marathon in 1900. He also had won the Hamilton Around the Bay Road Race on two occasions.
1894 – Hamilton Herald newspaper and cigar store owner Billy Carroll established the Around the Bay Road Race. Although it is not a proper marathon, it is the longest continuously held long-distance foot race in North America. [5] 1895 – Wentworth incline railway begins operation in August 1895. (1895–1936) [29] [30]
Around the Bay Road Race, the longest continuously held long-distance foot race in North America (since 1894) Canadian Football Hall of Fame, downtown; CANUSA Games, Hamilton is twinned with Flint, Michigan, and its amateur athletes have competed in these games since 1958; Jukasa Motor Speedway, a 5/8-mile oval auto racing track, Cayuga, Ontario
But it was definitely not all work and no play for local residents. In 1894, Hamilton Herald newspaper and cigar store owner Billy Carroll established the Around the Bay Road Race. The route circumnavigates Burlington Bay and, although it is not a proper marathon, it is the longest continuously held long distance foot race in North America.
Duffy on the bridge over Burlington Canal during the 1912 Around the Bay Road Race in Hamilton, Ontario.. James Duffy (May 1, 1890 in County Leitrim, Ireland – April 23, 1915 outside Ypres, Belgium) [1] was a distance runner from Canada, one of the world's best marathon runners at the beginning of the 20th century.
Around the Bay Road Race; C. CANUSA Games; Charles Juravinski Memorial Cup; H. ... Race Hamilton This page was last edited on 3 April 2018, at 01:52 (UTC). Text ...
McQuesten was born in Hespeler (now Cambridge, Ontario) in nearby Waterloo County, the youngest son of the five children [2] of Isaac McQuesten and Mary Baker McQuesten.His father died from overdosing on sleeping pills leaving the family almost bankrupt [2] when Thomas was six years old, and the family homestead narrowly avoided being sold to cover these debts.