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...heart. They found, also, that the amount of breathing space in the lungs did not seem to affect in one way or another the running ability of the men. This year the same observers studied the men who attempted to qualify for the Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course of 26 miles and 285 yards. The contestants were examined a day or two before and then immediately after the race. The most striking feature revealed by the examinations, in addition to the increase in non-protein nitrogen and uric acid in the blood, was the marked fall...
...University track insignia has been awarded to Clarence Harrison DeMar A. A. '15 by the Athletic Committee because of his winning the Boston Marathon run four different times. He won this 26-mile classic first in 1911. Business and the war interfered with his track career from then until 1922, when he repeated his victory of eleven years earlier. He again won the marathon...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the finish of a 10-mile marathon race in the Capital and saw one J. Movis, of the Nativity Catholic Club of Philadelphia, break the tape, a winner. ¶ Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, accompanied by C. Bascom Slemp, Miss Virginia Burke (a descendant of the Washington and the Jefferson families) and Congressman Moore of Virginia, went from Washington to the nearby city of Alexandria on the Sunday following Washington's birthday. They attended services in Christ Church, of which President Washington was a vestryman, and sat in the Washington...
...Houston, Texas, R. E. Settle needed an automobile-driving marathon prize to go on his honeymoon. He had 13 competitors, but the last one, a woman, fainted away after 101 hours. Settle went about 1,800 miles in 101 hours, 10 minutes. Speed was no object...
...light of the moon Nicholas Morris of San Antonio, Texas, teed off at 12.40 a.m. to break the golf marathon record (257 holes) set a month ago by Rudolph Supan, of Cleveland. Morris quit at 7.50 that night after having traversed 290 holes (more than 16 full 18-hole rounds). He averaged 85 shots a round...