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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...
With what pleasure did I realize my town would make TIME this week. Medford's Smiling Jimmy Henigan won the Boston Marathon on April 19 and the race is reported in TIME'S usual great style (TIME, April 27). But where did you get that picture of Canadian Runner Johnny Miles who came in tenth or thereabouts which you have labeled with the winner's name? How did that maple leaf on Johnny's shirt get by you? Your picture service can furnish you with a real picture of great little Henigan for your next week...
...last the people on Exeter Street saw the runner they had been waiting for; there were cheers, a waving of hats, a craning of necks, and yet looks of astonishment. For who was this? Few recognized him until his name was passed along the line-Henigan, it was Jimmy Henigan, from Medford. No other runner was anywhere near him as he swung easily down the street to the tape. His time, as was to be expected in the heat, was far behind the record. Fred Ward of Manhattan finished second, Karl Koski third, David Sagerlund fourth, Clarence De Mar fifth...
...Winner Henigan went special honors. On his brow Captain George Demeter of Boston, Grand Governor of the Greek-American Progressive Association, placed a laurel wreath made of laurel from the plain of Marathon, Greece. To him was awarded in addition to the usual diamond studded medal, another medal, inscribed with the word "Nενκηκaμεν," the famed dying cry of Pheidippides, who bore the news of the Battle of Marathon to Athens. Like many marathoners, Henigan, 39, has outraced his own youth. He has been a long distance runner for 20 years...
Clarence H. De Mar won the race. After him tottered Henigan, up among the winners at last. And after Henigan came Joie Ray, running on his toes. He didn't recognize his own coach, Johnny Behr, who caught him in a blanket. When his shoes were cut away from his swollen and blistered feet it was found that the nails of his big toes had been torn loose from the cuticle. The soles of his feet were bleeding horribly. On the rubbing table his thigh and calf muscles contracted and knotted like wires that have been sustaining a tension...