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When he started to go to school at Madisonville, Ohio, Clarence DeMar found it more pleasant to dogtrot than to walk. He has been dogtrotting ever since. In 1911, when he was 23, he entered the 26-mi. Boston Marathon in which he had finished second the year before. A doctor listened to his heart, told him to drop out if he got tired, advised him to give up running afterward. Clarence DeMar won the race in record time. No one else has ever won the Boston Marathon more than twice. DeMar won it seven times, most recently...
...only other identified Crimson runner was S. M. Charley '37. Charley favored the peculiar gangling style of running used by Clarence DeMar but not with quite such good results. For, while the 49-year-old veteran finished a strong 14th, Charley was still unheard from at a late hour last night. He was last seen trying to negotiate a hummock near Newton Lower Falls...
...parents and fiancee at the finish, Pawson broke the tape in 2 hr. 31 min. 1.6 sec. - no less than 34 sec. below the Olympic marathon record, a full two minutes better than the record for the Boston run. Eighth last week was iron-legged old Clarence DeMar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won seven Boston Marathons, finished second or third in four...
...reasons for Clarence DeMar's supremacy in 25-mile cross-country jogs has been discovered in a study recently concluded by Assistant Professor D. B. Dill in the Harvard Fatigue Laboratory at the Graduate School of Business Administration. Interested in the relation of the chemical condition of a worker's blood to his general efficiency, Professor Dill put the well-known Melrose runner and 24 other persons through a series of 20-minute runs on a tread-mill, in order to determine the amount of lactic acid accumulated in their blood...
...When the muscles are working so fast that they cannot get enough oxygen for their recovery process," Dr. Dill explained, "lactic acid accumulates in them and leaks out into the blood, producing or tending to produce exhaustion. We placed DeMar on our horizontal treadmill, geared to a speed of 9.3 kilometers an hour, and found that the amount of exhaust acid he had accumulated at the end of twenty minutes was almost negligible...