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...want to win the Boston A. A. Marathon-26 mi. over macadam and concrete roads from Hopkinton to a finish-line on Exeter Street-a good way is to finish eighth the year before. Jimmy Henigan was eighth in 1930, winner the next year; Paul De Bruyn was eighth in 1931, winner a year ago. In eighth place last year was a short, prudent Pawtucket, R. I. mill worker named Leslie Samuel Pawson who trains for marathons not by drinking beer like many of his confreres but by total abstinence from alcohol and tobacco, long runs around Pawtucket when...
...kept his usual pace, well behind the leaders. They were three seasoned Finns, Willie Kyronen, Willie Ritola and 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...
...miles from the finish, the race was clearly between De Bruyn and Hennigan. For five of the six miles the two ran almost shoulder to shoulder with Kyronen, who liked the cool weather, holding on behind them. Then, in the last mile. De Bruyn began to work his well-muscled legs faster in their choppy stride. He was 200 yd. ahead at the finish, with Hennigan second, Kyronen third, De Mar 18th, McLeod 27th. Far behind McLeod straggled a sad marathoner named Charles E. Bradford of Lowell, Mass. He was seized by a policeman as he finished the race, hustled...
Exhilarated by victory, De Bruyn took a shower, dined, bowled for an hour, danced till midnight, then rode home to Manhattan on a day coach to be on time for his job of stoking a furnace in the Hotel Wellington. He explained how he trained: by running from home to work (15 mi.) several times a week; by running around the boiler room of the Hotel Wellington; by running up & down its 26 flights of backstairs...
...basis of the grades they made in the Harvard Law School. They are as follows: third year men: L. H. Arps, J. W. K. Johnson, Milton Schilback, J. G. Conger, J. D. Wood, W. J. Brennan, E. G. Jennings, Robertson Boney, Jr.; second year men: J. de Bruyn Kops, Jr., T. McP. Davis, F. L. Dewey. H. B. Johnson, Harold Levine, S. J. Liftin, J. B. Messitte, R. E. Mumford, Louis Newman, A. I. Schmalholz. J. J. Fine, F. H. Sloss, H. B. Ely, J. D. Shoaff, and J. B. Tittmann...