Word: cloney
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...Will Cloney. chairman of the Boston Athletic Association, announced yesterday that because of the "unmanageable" field of entrants in last year's Boston Marathon, he has enacted measures to limit the number of entries this spring...
Most of the players are expected to be on hand for the dinner. The Annual Varsity Club Award will also be presented. Will Cloney '33 will be toastmaster, and football coach Yoviesin will speak briefly on Saturday's game against Dartmouth...
...Cloney's recent threat that, due to increasing numbers, they might have to do away with beef stew at the finishing line will probably do little to discourage entrants...
...there was an understatement. Roberta crossed the finish line in 3 hr. 21 min. 2 sec.-good enough to place 124th out of an otherwise all-male field of 416. Will Cloney, director of the marathon, refused even to admit that she had competed at all: "I know of no girl who ran in the Boston Marathon," he insisted. "She couldn't enter. I do know of a girl who is supposed to have run the same roads as the marathon route today. But that's not the same." No? Roberta is planning to run again next year...
...even the most intransigent fethardist could see that something had to give. Last week Sheila Cloney's father, Thomas Kelly (a Protestant farmer and cattle dealer who lives half a mile outside Fethard), met in Dublin with a representative of the Catholics of Fethard-on-the-Sea. Kelly agreed to do all he could to find the Cloney children and restore them to their father, and the two men released a statement that all Ireland interpreted as a treaty of peace. As a reporter for the Irish Times put it: "There was no rejoicing in Fethard...