Word: marathons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although he is no gambling man, the Rev. Owen Barrow, 40, a slight, blue-eyed Church of England clergyman, was willing to wager $33,000 on a hunch he had four years ago. His hunch: that Protestants of all denominations in the Canadian pulp & paper mill town of Marathon (present pop. 2,000) could worship together amicably in one church. Last week the wager looked as secure as Mr. Barrow's trim white clapboard Holy Trinity Church in Marathon. Anglicans, Presbyterians, Lutherans, Baptists, members of the United Church, the Greek Orthodox Church and the Salvation Army were joined into...
...every man's idea of the way to spend Sunday morning. But to some people, it is the high spot of the year. This week 234 of such enthusiasts clambered into their tiny, buglike craft and racketed hopefully off the starting mark at Albany, in the 18th annual marathon to New York City. Of the 234 starters, 115 finished, and that was about par for the 130-mile course...
...spun, over and capsized at the start, several ran into driftwood and tore their hulls. Some quit with engine trouble, others gave up out of sheer exhaustion. Ordinary citizens would want a stout reward for taking the punishment the river men take, but the marathon's prizes-an automobile, a television set and a cup-would be penny ante on a third-rate radio jackpot. The pilots of the cockleshells that whined their way down the Hudson were doing...
...mile quartering wind, Nigl buzzed alone past the Coast Guard cutter Tamaroa, marking the finish opposite Manhattan's west 80s. At first, on the assumption that he was just another sightseer, no one paid much attention to him. He circled the utter twice, waving frantically. Belatedly the marathon committee took note of the approximate finish time: 3 hours 18 minutes. It cracked Scott's 1949 record by more than 10 minutes, for an average speed of 39.3 m.p.h...
Johnson's drive ended a loosely-played three-hour marathon. The Yardlings made six errors, the Terriers two. B.U. used four pitchers, and Crimson starter Scot Ricketson lasted little more than an inning...