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This morning 444 runners will jog from Hopkinton, Mass. to the Prudential Tower in the traditional 26-mile Boston Marathon. A Belgian, Aurele Vandendries, is favored in the gruelling race, while unpredictable Wait Hewlett is Harvard's leading entrant...
...Runner." At the start of the 68th marathon last week, no fewer than 302 "athletes" crowded up to the line in suburban Hopkinton. A motlier crew never trotted down a pike. "I'm trying to get back into shape," explained Konrad Ulbrich, onetime captain of the Harvard swimming team. "The guys at the bar bet me I couldn't do it," mum bled a red-eyed fellow in pajama bot toms. There was a doctor from Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, who talked about the "mental and spiritual uplift" of running to the point of physical collapse...
There was hope in Boston. Not for eleven years had an American won the annual Patriots' Day Marathon, a grind of 26 miles and 385 yards winding from suburban Hopkinton to the finish line at Exeter Street in downtown Boston. This year, after a decade of watching Japanese, Koreans and Finnish runners wallop America's best, loyal Bostonians saw a chance for victory. There were no entrants from Japan or Korea, and the Finns were represented by a pair of solemn runners who ranked no better than fifth and sixth in their own marathon-happy country...
...Patriots' Day (April 19, the Battle of Lexington), half a million citizens lined the long road from Hopkinton, Mass, to Boston (26 miles 385 yds.) to cheer as mixed a crew of visitors as ever raced through New England. As 160 runners jostled into the start of the 59th Boston Athletic Association Marathon,† swarthy Latin complexions shaded off into yellow Oriental tints and the pink-white of Scandinavian skins. Bostonians could cheer for Canada, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Japan, Finland, Sweden...
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