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...taken North Carolina two years and nine months to lay legal hands on the slippery-pair. Week before the U. S. Supreme Court had for the fourth time refused to review their case, finally ordering Tennessee to give up the Leas to North Carolina and end a 33-month marathon against justice...
...John S. Hammond had become the Garden's board chairman. Since 1932, white-haired, soldierly Colonel Hammond has had to pay his way like any one else when he went to the Garden to see a rodeo, prizefight, bicycle race, dog show, circus, wrestling match, horse show, dance marathon or hockey game. That was a disagreeable novelty for the oldtime West Point and Olympic (1904) sprinter. Years before, when he was U. S. military attache in Bolivia, he had run into a shrewd promoter looking for speculative cattle lands. Then and there they became fast friends. Colonel Hammond stayed...
...object to marathon races as outworn Green traditions. Insull is the only true Greek marathon runner. That marathons should take the place of "Sunday Driver" cars for the purpose of getting the seating office flunky to the green suburbs, following in a long line the sticky men with hot feet and chewing gum, is a misfortune. If it takes more than two and a half hours to circle 26 miles of Newtons in the broiling sun, the tour is not worth while, and what does a race of 26 miles 300 yards prove for the sporting world...
...last B.A.A. marathon proved a lot. It proved that in the future a man may run as fast as he likes, according to how much fuel he wants to burn. Take Johny Kelly, for example, an ordinary plodder, but filled with a burning desire to win this inter-suberb camel-trek. He calls up Harvard University, Uni. 7600, and asks for the Fatigue Research Laboratory. He asks Professor Henderson if he can become one of "Henderson's Men" and is accepted by the great blood-chemists. Henderson gives him the dope for winning marathons, a dozen little glucose sugar pills...
...When the Olympic games were revived in 1896, a marathon race was included in the program. Most famed of modern races was that from Windsor Castle to Shepherd's Bush in the 1908 Olympics. The distance of the London run, some 4 mi. longer than the original, has been made standard...