Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poured down at Marathon. To the right of the winding road, on hills where goats nibbled the brown grass, the rocks made sharp black shadows. To the left, a warm, slow spray varied the edge of the Aegean. Pheidippides, running toward Athens 22 mi. away, headed down the dusty road...
When Pheidippides staggered up to the city gates, announced that the Persians had been defeated and fell dead of exhaustion, he was lucky. In a modern marathon race, he would have failed to reach the finish. The 193 runners who left Hopkinton, Mass, last week had 26 mi., 385 yd.* between them and Exeter Street in Boston. A light wind fanned into their faces. Old Clarence De Mar, Keene (N. H.) school teacher, who has won the Boston Marathon seven times, waved to his friends at South Framingham. At Natick, a New York runner named William Steiner, who stepped along...
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...
...When the Olympic games were revived in 1896, a marathon race was included in the program. Most famed of modern races was that from Windsor Castle to Shepherd's Bush in the 1908 Olympics. The distance of the London run, some 4 mi. longer than the original, has been made standard...
...complete moving picture of the Olympic Games will be shown Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the boxing room of the Indoor Athletic Building. The movies will show the track, swimming, rowing, tumbling, field hockey, fencing, boxing, Olympic marathon, and wrestling events...