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Last week's running of the Boston Marathon-26 mi. over New England hills from Tebeau's Farm at Hopkinton, Mass., to the clubhouse of the Boston Athletic Association-was the 36th. It was the 14th for 44-year-old Clarence De Mar, a school-teacher of Keene...
...Karl Koski; Jimmy Hennigan, a 40-year-old Medford, Mass, runner who won last year; John McLeod of Boston, who covered the first twelve miles in record time; Paul De Bruyn, who last summer left Manhattan to work his way home on a cattle-boat and win the German marathon championship...
...ought to. I've been wearing them for six months. I'm used to everything except the physical strain. Standing for five hours is gruelling. The tension is so great, that the work is just as hard as running a marathon. In New York after two months I got the 'jitters.' I could scarcely control my hands. Never again--that is, not for a long time will I take a play as long as this...
...keep the wolf from the door with medals. ... I have to eat and that's why I'm doing this. And you can take it from me, I've got this marathon dance thing sewed up. I passed through the squirrel stage, when you get hopeless and exhausted long ago. ... I could go out and break 4:25 for the mile right now. . . . That $1,000 prize is as good as in my pocket right now. . . . This thing...
Observers, recalling a career in which Ray's extravagant self-adulation has never deterred him from any form of self-inflicted torture, wondered whether he had really passed the squirrel stage. For his first marathon Ray scorned to train, set off at a fast clip wearing the shoes he used for middle-distance running. Doctors cut off these shoes when the race was over. In them they found evidence of almost super-human endurance?two swollen purple lumps which were Ray's feet, chafed to the bone and caked with blood from broken blisters. Clarence De Mar, spindle-shanked Boston...