Having spent vast sums of either money or effort to assemble a sumptuous plate of edibles for runners and/or spectators, and seeing that the only one eating any of it was Jake, Jack took matters into his own hands. Leaping up from his stool, he grabbed the plate and thrust it into the faces of the passing runners, who were by now actually walkers...the serious contenders, who would have contemptuously swatted his foolish offering aside, having long since past.