Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Boston Marathon, run last week, was supposed to be the final Olympic tryout for 129 U.S. marathoners. But the man who won the 26-mi. 385-yd., up-&-downhill race was Gerry Cote, a 34-year-old policeman from St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. To celebrate his fourth B.A.A. triumph, jaunty Gerry gulped a bottle of beer and lit up a fat stogie. The Olympic marathon committee picked its three-man U.S. team from marathoners who had finished from 250 yards to 350 yards behind Canada's Cote...
...doxtrose-filed Freshman plodded his way through 26 miles of concrete roads and woodland paths yesterday in the annual Boston Marathon. He is Lawrence R. Zeitlin '51, who entered the race "just to ace if I could...
Form books take a dim view of local chances for individual honors in the marathon. Aside from Joe Verduer of LaSalle, world champion in the breaststroke, and diver Norm Sper of North Carolina, all the laurels seem destined to fall on the brows of the capable Elis, who will bring up the same group of experts that trampled Crimson hopes last week by a 62-13 tally...
Walt McCurdy, first string basketball guard, led Crimson sharpshooters from his eleventh-place slot in the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League scoring marathon, as reported in the official league tabulation yesterday...
...Three Marathon Losses...