Word: komonen
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...lunch of sugar, Every mile or so he takes a pill form his little bottle and stokes himself. His bodily machine going under forced oxygen draft with an almost diabetic supply of fuel, he returns to the Athens of America only a few minutes behind the non-Biochemical Finn, Komonen...
...friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along like a sprinter, was 200 yd. ahead. Up the long slope toward Wellesley College, Steiner slowed down and John Kelley of Arlington, Mass, and a pale, unhappy-looking Finn named Dave Komonen soon caught him. From the sidewalks, Wellesley girls waved to the runners who pass through their town in underclothes once every year-Leslie Pawson, last year's winner; cheerful Jimmy Henigan, winner in 1931; Paul De Bruyn, the furnace-man who trained for his victory two years ago by running...
Pawson got a cramp, walked for two miles, sighed and stopped. Henigan dropped out after 17 mi. and rode the rest of the route in an automobile. For 10 mi., over the long Newton hills, Kelley and Komonen held their lead together, Kelley gaining a few steps as they plodded up, Komonen gaining a few as they coasted down the other side. At Boston College Komonen pulled ahead. He had trained for the race by running 15 mi. a day on snowshoes. At Coolidge Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between...
Like most marathoners, Dave Komonen is a small man, 5 ft. 6 in. He weighed 131 Ib. at the start of last week's run, lost 6 Ib. along the way. Four years ago he came from Kakisalmi, Finland to Ontario, where he is a carpenter in the Frood Mine, at Sudbury. When he finished second last year in the Boston Marathon-hardest and oldest (37 years) in the U. S.- Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last...
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