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Nearly 200 runners are expected to enter the event Monday, and Popell is aiming to finish in the first 35. In addition, he's betting that despite his complete lack of experience, if he gets past Wellesley, he can beat Clarence DeMar, alias Clarence DcMarathon, who will be entering the race for his 33rd time...
...year-old DeMar has won the classic seven times, and last year, though held to 82nd place, still managed to outrun Chrisman and, as he says, "a whole flock of others." He's planning to finish at least in the top 60 this year...
...DeMar predicted last night, however, that Popell will probably beat him-- "unless the football player's weight is too much...
Another super-marathoner, 50-year-old Clarence DeMar, felt the same way last week. Seven-time winner of the Boston Marathon, DeMar, who finished 30th last week, had a "Situations Wanted" ad in a Boston newspaper the day of the race...
Most famed marathoner in the U. S., Clarence DeMar has not yet shown himself the most enduring. That distinction belongs to Peter Foley, 83, who was so much pleased by finishing 12th in the Boston Marathon of 1906 that he has run in it almost annually ever since, finished 48th four years ago. Though marathoners can continue running as long as they can breathe, the ablest marathoners are usually young men. At the finish line on Exeter Street last week, DeMar was 14th. Peter Foley was nowhere to be seen. He had started an hour ahead of the rest...