Word: marathoning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...existing rules of amateurism could have been written by Cole Porter: Anything goes. On the occasion of his second consecutive victory in the New York Marathon last October, Alberto Salazar allowed as how, given a choice, he prefers his cash "under the table" rather than by way of one of the new trust-fund arrangements the International Amateur Athletic Federation has approved as a slender hedge against hypocrisy. Also on behalf of under-the-table money, Fred Lebow, the New York Marathon's candid proprietor, points out that it "is legal as far as the governments are concerned...
...everybody has been happy with the Boston Marathon. Olympic Gold Medal Winner Frank Shorter has run at Boston only twice, the last time in 1979. Among other reasons, he could never coax so much as a plane ticket out of Cloney. Sneaker companies have probably picked up a few tabs over the years in Boston, but the runners have never been paid or even had expenses defrayed by the B.A.A...
...matter of fact," says four-time Winner Bill Rodgers, "Boston never even worked within the amateur rules before. For the past many years, they could have paid airfares, housing and food allowances." Now, apparently afraid of being left behind by marathons in New York, London and Tokyo, Boston is ready to pay. "When I see all these things happening," says Cloney, "I have to do something to protect the future of the Boston Marathon...
...destination of the 26-mile 385-yd. journey, a blessed sight for the survivors among the 6,000 starters. They stumble in looking like advancemen for a famine. But the Pru says it wants no part of commercialism, and the finish line next year will probably be elsewhere. "The marathon is going to be exactly the same as every other marathon in the world," Cloney promises, "with commercial sponsorship...
Keliey, 74, who won in 1935 and 1945, plans to run again Monday. It will be his 51st Boston Marathon, though he is half inclined not to count the three he didn't finish (1928, 1932 and 1956). "I meet people every day now," Keliey says, "with gray heads, bald heads, who tell me how their fathers always took them to Fenway on Patriots Day morning to see the Red Sox and then on to the race to cheer us in. Boston is Boston. It's tradition. But I'm as confused...