Word: marathoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate Wheeler went back through Illinois, Michigan, Ohio to Manhattan, completing his marathon speaking tour from coast to coast and back again?and ceased to be a candidate...
...roared greeting to the 39 who pawed the mark, then settled back to wonder how the 39 could possibly endure such searing heat. Out of the Stadium went the runners, to dusty roads, to sunbaked fields. Half an hour later Nurmi's lithe effortless figure came through the Marathon Gate, followed shortly by the indefatigable Ritola and by Earl Johnson (stalwart U. S. Negro), by a sun-stricken, staggering, vomiting, fainting rabble. Only 15 of the 39 finished. Just outside the Stadium many lay prostrate, nigh dead, in a hollow by some tennis courts where the sun was furnace...
...bugle-blast rang out at the Marathon Gate. Into the Stadium loped Stenroos, a little Finnish woodcarver, still perky after 26 miles over hill and dale. He was crowned King of the Games with a laurel wreath, after an Italian, an American, another Finn, a Briton, a Chilean crawled...
...strong. Up in the line somewhere strode their most-feared rivals, 60 hardy Finns, among whom the greatest names were Paavo Nurmi (distance runner entered in six races), Willie Ritola (present U. S. distance champion, bearing Finland's colors because of an Olympic ruling), Hannes Kolehmainen (long time a Marathon marvel), Porhola and Torpo (weights...
...heart. They found, also, that the amount of breathing space in the lungs did not seem to affect in one way or another the running ability of the men. This year the same observers studied the men who attempted to qualify for the Olympic games in the Boston marathon, a course of 26 miles and 285 yards. The contestants were examined a day or two before and then immediately after the race. The most striking feature revealed by the examinations, in addition to the increase in non-protein nitrogen and uric acid in the blood, was the marked fall...