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Picked for the U. S. Olympic Marathon team-old Clarence DeMar, chesty Joie Ray, young William Agee, stout Jimmy Hennigan, skinny Harvey Frick, blond Albert Michelson...
...more than six times. He holds with Paavo Nurmi the world's indoor mile record. Last month when he finished third in the Boston marathon (TIME, April 30) his first long distance race, his shoes had to be cut away from his swollen and bleeding feet. Clarence DeMar won at Boston. Ray finished with glazed eyes, a haggard face. At Long Beach, DeMar finishing seventh, was haggard, Ray happy. He kissed his hand to the Mayor as he crossed the finish line. "See those feet" he said in the locker room, crinkling his toes, "no blisters on them...
...wagon; was trained, conditioned, counseled and sent down to tell the officials of the great Boston Marathon that he, a lad of 18, had come to win their race, though never in his life had he run more than 15 miles on end. It will sing of Clarence DeMar, the stalwart Sunday School teacher of Melrose, Mass., who had won four times and held the world's record, and of Albin Stenroos, iron-legged Olympic champion, who had come all the way from Finland to fag DeMar. It will chant how Johnny Miles ran respectfully, first behind DeMar...
When questioned on this award, DeMar said, "I am very, very pleased to receive this official recognition." In 1911, after his first victory, he was offered a letter by Vermont University, which he had attended, but is reported to have said that he didn't have the check to accent it. "I have the check to accept this letter, however," he said, "for during the war I acquired some from the army...
...DeMar was connected with the University from 1910 to 1915, being listed as in the College from 1910 to 1913 and as a special student from 1913 to 1915. His degree of A. A., toward which Summer School courses are counted; is practically equivalent to that...