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Captain Julia Moore battled to win the decisive point of the final game in a marathon match with her Williams rival, Jan Garvey. Moore had enabled her opponent to control the tempo of play and deadlock their match at two games apiece. In the fifth game Moore persistently dodged the wide-swinging weapon of the black-eyed Ephwoman and exhaustively hung...
Imagine the Boston Red Sox holding a marathon like the one the Boston Symphony/Boston Pops is holding this weekend. What a dream-come-true that would be for George Plimpton '48, a Harvard Poonie and pro-athlete aspirant, if he were in town. Four days of around-the-clock broadcasts of the most stupendous Bosox games of all time at Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next...
Plimpton trained, sweated, and refined his talents until he became deft enough to do each sport with the pros. If he were around today, for his fictional Bosox marathon, it would have been so much less painful. For a minimal charitable pledge to help the team, he could have been out in Fenway Park, batting grounders to Carl Yasztremski. If not like the pros, he could have won a rare opportunity to play with them...
...span no doubt just a fraction of that. What more would he have lavished during those off-the-field stretches than to share a cigar with Luis Tiant in the dugout, or to chop down wood with Carlton Fisk in the backyard of his New Hampshire home? The BSO marathon, by coincidence, offers an analogous plethora of outlandish non-musical premiums for the generous and non-musical, musical and daring, non-daring and generous pledgers. Two one-hour flying lessons with Joseph Hearne, BSO bass player, for $200; chocolate rum cake baked by BSO violinist Ronan Lefkowitz...
...wire and flying stones. Some hobbled, others seemed permanently hunched from their battle. The weary combatants had just completed the opening day of one of sport's most grueling events, the St. Paul Winter Carnival's 12th International Snowmobile Race-a 576-mile, four-day, open-throttled marathon from St. Paul to Winnipeg...