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Last week, for the first time in 27 years, it was a rainy Patriots' Day. Less than 100,000 spectators lined the 26-mile, 385-yard route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...
...fine field at the starting line: 179 U. S. and Canadian runners, including five onetime champions. Hopkinton yokels, looking them over as though they were horses in a paddock, pointed to a stolid, bronze-skinned young man. "Look, there's the Indian, Tarzan Brown, who won in 1936. But he went over to those Olympics and hasn't been the same since. Finished 31st two years ago and 54th last year. He'll set the pace-and burn himself...
Five minutes later, 33-year-old Leslie Pawson, Pawtucket playground instructor, bounded over the finish line to become the fourth two-time winner in the 42-year history of the famed Boston race. His time-over the grueling, hilly course from Hopkinton to Boston...
...Boston Marathon, its city's No. 1 sport event, is annually held on Patriot's Day. That Patriot's Day last week coincided with Good Friday served only to increase the excitement of the 500,000 enthusiasts who, as usual, lined the 26-mi. course from Hopkinton to Exeter Street. At Natick, one Mrs. Mary Bonfatti was so perturbed that she drove her automobile into two policemen. At Wellesley, students lined the streets, hooted or cheered contestants as they staggered past, 13 miles from the finish. At Auburndale, girl students of Lasell Junior College who were forbidden...
When Pheidippides staggered up to the city gates, announced that the Persians had been defeated and fell dead of exhaustion, he was lucky. In a modern marathon race, he would have failed to reach the finish. The 193 runners who left Hopkinton, Mass, last week had 26 mi., 385 yd.* between them and Exeter Street in Boston. A light wind fanned into their faces. Old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won the Boston Marathon seven times, waved to his friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along...