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...Florida's Jimmy Wynne, 35: the Gateway Marathon, a 180-mile speedboat race from West Palm Beach to Grand Bahama Island and back. Driving his latest creation, Maritime, a 32-ft. aluminum hull powered by two supercharged 400-h.p. Daytona engines, Miami Designer Wynne ripped through the churning Gulf Stream at speeds up to 60 m.p.h., crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 41 min. 10 sec. to beat Don Aronow's G08-a deep-V Donzi whose fiberglass hull Wynne also helped design...
...antidote to onrushing middle age-but how many practice what they preach? Most claim to be too busy. Not Bronx Dermatologist Irving Abrahams, 37, and Rumson, N.J., Internist George A. Sheehan Jr., 46, who last week tied for 46th in the Amateur Athletic Union's national marathon championship, run over 26 miles of rolling asphalt road in New York's suburban Westchester County...
...finished second in the I.C.4-A mile at Madison Square Garden, still manages to clock 30 miles a week. "There is some evidence that it produces an anticoagulant, keeps the blood vessels clean, lowers the blood pressure and slows the pulse." Is that why he runs the long marathon distances? Not really, says Sheehan. The truth is, "I enjoy...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The Boston Marathon, the U.S.'s oldest and foremost re-creation of the classic race, which attracts not only Olympic contenders but an assortment of aging pavement pounders...
Dick Appleby and Davis, the second combination for Harvard, settled their games to whip Westcott and Nelson, 8-6, 6-0. Benjamin and Kileff (three) also had a slow start. But they had a slow finish as well, bowing to Dunlop and Bryce Appleton in marathon contest...