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Both officially and otherwise some students decided to try their mettle and participated in yesterday's 100th anniversary running of the Boston Marathon...
...sign in Hopkinton Green that commemorates the marathon reads WELCOME TO HOPKINTON. IT ALL STARTS HERE. Actually, it all started down the road in Ashland on Patriots' Day, April 19, 1897, when 15 men from the Boston area and New York City entered the first Boston Athletic Association Marathon. A 22-year-old lithographer from New York named John McDermott won the race, though not easily. A few miles from the finish, McDermott had to stop because of intense leg cramps. Fortunately, he had an attendant who answered McDermott's command, "Rub!," and he crossed the finish line...
Times have changed, of course. The road to Boston is now paved. The leather shoes that McDermott wore gave way to canvas sneakers that gave way to leather shoes. The start was moved from Ashland to Hopkinton in 1924 in order to lengthen the course to the classic marathon distance. And in recent years, the traditional post-marathon beef stew served by the BAA has been replaced by a pre-marathon pasta party sponsored by Ronzoni. But from the beginning, Boston has been immensely popular: the seventh running of the marathon in 1903 attracted 200,000 spectators. This year...
...Kelley was back at work the next day, preparing Easter lilies at Anderson's Florist Shop. He also won in 1945 at the advanced age of 37 and told a reporter, "Life merely begins at 40, and I have three years to go." Kelley no longer runs in the marathon, but runners can still pass him on Heartbreak Hill in Newton, where there are twin statues of Kelley--as he ran in his first victory and as he ran in his 61st Boston...
BOSTON: Kenyan Moses Tanui won the 100th Boston Marathon with a time of 2:09:16. His upset of countryman and three-time defending champion Cosmas Ndeti gave Kenya its sixth consecutive victory. Germany's Uta Pippig followed 18 minutes and 12 seconds later with a time of 2:27:12 for her third consecutive win in the women's division. Behind early in the race, Pippig stormed back late in a rally that was the highlight of the race, says TIME's Sam Allis. "People had written off Pippig when she fell behind Kenya's Tegla Loroupe," says Allis...