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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another super-marathoner, 50-year-old Clarence DeMar, felt the same way last week. Seven-time winner of the Boston Marathon, DeMar, who finished 30th last week, had a "Situations Wanted" ad in a Boston newspaper the day of the race...
When he started to go to school at Madisonville, Ohio, Clarence DeMar found it more pleasant to dogtrot than to walk. He has been dogtrotting ever since. In 1911, when he was 23, he entered the 26-mi. Boston Marathon in which he had finished second the year before. A doctor listened to his heart, told him to drop out if he got tired, advised him to give up running afterward. Clarence DeMar won the race in record time. No one else has ever won the Boston Marathon more than twice. DeMar won it seven times, most recently...
Most famed marathoner in the U. S., Clarence DeMar has not yet shown himself the most enduring. That distinction belongs to Peter Foley, 83, who was so much pleased by finishing 12th in the Boston Marathon of 1906 that he has run in it almost annually ever since, finished 48th four years ago. Though marathoners can continue running as long as they can breathe, the ablest marathoners are usually young men. At the finish line on Exeter Street last week, DeMar was 14th. Peter Foley was nowhere to be seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest...
...only other identified Crimson runner was S. M. Charley '37. Charley favored the peculiar gangling style of running used by Clarence DeMar but not with quite such good results. For, while the 49-year-old veteran finished a strong 14th, Charley was still unheard from at a late hour last night. He was last seen trying to negotiate a hummock near Newton Lower Falls...
...parents and fiancee at the finish, Pawson broke the tape in 2 hr. 31 min. 1.6 sec. - no less than 34 sec. below the Olympic marathon record, a full two minutes better than the record for the Boston run. Eighth last week was iron-legged old Clarence DeMar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won seven Boston Marathons, finished second or third in four...