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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...
...toes; why he came in 12th in his first Olympic race, third in his second, 27th in his third; why he found Olympic competition the least enjoyable of his career; how he trained by running nine miles to work and back in Medford, Mass; how before the Brockton Marathon in 1911 he breakfasted on 12 oranges, a bag of pine nuts and a pound of caramels; how to dodge traffic in a marathon; and how he kept going between marathons as printer, scoutmaster, schoolteacher, soldier...
Followed by an automobile driven by a friend, James F. Gerrity '39 and Francis W. Scofield '40 ran seven of the 26 grueling miles of the B. A. A. Marathon yesterday. Leading 30 contestants at the time, the Crimson plodders were forced to withdraw because of indigestion, leg and shin cramps, blisters, fallen arches, and various other ailments...
...student a parade means disturbance in Widener, when he has really struggled to take himself there. The marathon is an exertion he cannot imagine, although a Dunster Funster, ironically enough, was among the list of entrants. To an Eliot House lad the parade had an intimate appeal, for his biddic had informed him that she would be marching. Most, in wondering what day of the week the University expected them to work--what with holidays and weekdays, could not but cry, with a Hearst-like flourish. "To the street, Harvard, and you shall see the noonday ride of Paul Revere...
...spectacle which has lately drawn midwestern crowds is the roller-skating derby, a cross between a dance marathon and a six-day bike race. The troupe travels from city to city, then skates in an arena a distance equal to the intercity journey. The skaters compete in mixed pairs, get cups for speed and endurance. Last week one such roller-skating troupe set off from St. Louis in a chartered bus to put on their show in Cincinnati...