Word: kelleyism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve miles from the finish, his feet began to blister. Eleven miles farther on, he was overcome by nausea, stopped twice to vomit. Neither of these mishaps last week seriously inconvenienced Runner John Adelbert Kelley, who regarded them as incidental to an afternoon of sport. The pain of the blisters caused him to hurry into first place. A few minutes after becoming violently sick, a little more than two and a half hours after he had started, he crossed the finish line in last week's Boston A. A. Marathon, winner by a quarter-mile. With feet much...
...notion that marathon races are cruel is debatable. Marathon runners undoubtedly enjoy them. When he regained enough strength and composure last week, skinny, sad-faced John Adelbert Kelley, who became one of this year's favorites by finishing second last year, explained about himself. He is the oldest child in a family of ten sired by an Arlington (Mass.) letter-carrier. William J. Kelley, a marathon enthusiast, took young John Adelbert to see Frank Zuna wobble across he finish line on Patriot's Day in 1921. Favorably impressed, 13-year-old John Adelbert Kelley thereupon went into training...
HARVARD BOSTON UNIVERSITY Prouty, l.f. l.f., Hartwell Adzigian, 3b. 2b., Collins Gibbs, c.f. 3b., Croke Bilodeau, 1b. 1b., Rosnitsky Woodruff, s.s. s.s., Sandercock Owen, r.f. r.f., Hale Maguire, c. c.f., Murphy Hayes, 2b. c., Cowan Braggiotti, Wood or Victor, p. p., Gordon or Kelley...
...yesterday's CRIMSON, the story of Yale Coach Ripley's resignation erroneously reported Bud Miles as the Sophomore who turned in his suit after being benched. The player involved was Larry Kelley, also end on this year's football team...
Last week the William Lawrence Saunders gold medal for distinguished service in mining* was awarded to James MacNaughton, president and general manager of Calumet & Hecla Consolidated Copper Co. of Michigan. Presentation was made by President Cornelius Francis Kelley of huge Anaconda Copper (no corporate kin to Calumet & Hecla) at the annual dinner of the American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers, convened in Manhattan to discuss mines, metals, men & methods...