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Five minutes later, 33-year-old Leslie Pawson, Pawtucket playground instructor, bounded over the finish line to become the fourth two-time winner in the 42-year history of the famed Boston race. His time-over the grueling, hilly course from Hopkinton to Boston...
Official timers shook their heads, and no one dared guess last night what had happened to John J. Costello '40, only Harvard challenger to winner Pawson...
...ahead. Up the long slope toward Wellesley College, Steiner slowed down and John Kelley of Arlington, Mass, and a pale, unhappy-looking Finn named Dave Komonen soon caught him. From the sidewalks, Wellesley girls waved to the runners who pass through their town in underclothes once every year-Leslie Pawson, last year's winner; cheerful Jimmy Henigan, winner in 1931; Paul De Bruyn, the furnace-man who trained for his victory two years ago by running up and down the back stairs of a Manhattan hotel...
...Pawson got a cramp, walked for two miles, sighed and stopped. Henigan dropped out after 17 mi. and rode the rest of the route in an automobile. For 10 mi., over the long Newton hills, Kelley and Komonen held their lead together, Kelley gaining a few steps as they plodded up, Komonen gaining a few as they coasted down the other side. At Boston College Komonen pulled ahead. He had trained for the race by running 15 mi. a day on snowshoes. At Coolidge Corner, coming into Boston, his feet were still light and he began to sprint between...
Just before Newton Hills, the most punishing part of the distance, Pawson caught Hornby; at Brae Burn he caught plucky little DeGloria, ran past him at the top of a hill. That settled the race. Running shrewdly, keeping to the shelter of trees as much as possible when the chilly wind blew in his face, waving to his parents and fiancee at the finish, Pawson broke the tape in 2 hr. 31 min. 1.6 sec. - no less than 34 sec. below the Olympic marathon record, a full two minutes better than the record for the Boston run. Eighth last week...