Word: koski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inducement: first U. S. runner and first Finn to finish would qualify for their respective Olympic teams. The field of 220 started with a strong wind behind them. De Mar kept his usual pace, well behind the leaders. They were three seasoned Finns, Willie Kyronen, Willie Ritola and Karl Koski; Jimmy Hennigan, a 40-year-old Medford, Mass, runner who won last year; John McLeod of Boston, who covered the first twelve miles in record time; Paul De Bruyn, who last summer left Manhattan to work his way home on a cattle-boat and win the German marathon championship...
...what would presently appear - a runner, his face set, his eyes unseeing, pacing down the hot pavement toward the tape in front of the Athletic Association. Would it be Clarence De Mar, 42-year-old school teacher, who has won seven times in 20 years? Would it be Karl Koski, the iron-legged Finn, or barrel-chested Whitey Michaelson who won the Manhattan A. A. U. marathon last fortnight? The crowd discussed its favorites and perspired, for the temperature was 77°. The blazing spring sun would do the runners no good...
...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...
...Karl Koski, 30, Finnish carpenter, with a handkerchief over his bald head, clutching his sweater cuffs to keep his hands warm, passing through a brush fire and a field composed largely of Irishmen and other Finns; a national championship marathon (26 mi., 385 yds.), run around Silver Lake on Staten Island...