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SUNSHINE STATE INDIANS GAPTDHE MARATHON EVENTMike Kirk's Zunis, Hopis and Acomas Win Raceo. Seven and One-Haif Miles Up MountainCOLORADO SPRINGS, Colo..Oct. 10*—Easily loping up fivemiles of the winding sever and one-half rer cent grades c£ the Broadmoors Cheyenne mountain 1 igh-way, six desert Indians from the wilds of Hopiland. Zuni and Acoma.Sky City ' in Js? w Mexico e tab-tished an unbelitvftble achievement for hardiness and endurance hereSunday in the first annual international intermountain marathon If negotiating the course to the 10,000foot summit of the mountain in between 35 and 14 minutes, completely outdistancing the best distance talent of Colorado white athletes.Three Hopis, who composed the tribe’s team, took first three places over their three teammates from Zuniland and Aroma. Injuries hampered the running of the two Zunis and Lino, the Acoma. but they they stuck grimly to the race and the last straggler in the Indian team bested the first white athlete hy ten minutes flat.Fohoquaptewa was the first with an elapsed time of 35.49 4-5; Hon-kuku, second, 35,55 2-5; Quanoh-wahu. third, 35 20 4-5. The first of the six competing whit* athletes was Dolphus Stroud, Colorado Springs athlete who finished seventh In 4$ 39 1-5. Shack and Sheka were the two Zunis. Silver trophies and medals w ere given Mike Kick's Indian team at a ceremony in the Broadmoor hotel here Sunday night.
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Albuquerque Morning Journal
Albuquerque, New Mexico, US
Mon, Oct 11, 1926
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