Word: recording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectators lined the 26-mile, 385-yard route, from the little town of Hopkinton-via Natick, Wellesley and Newton -to the Boston A. A. clubhouse on Exeter Street. But the rain that was responsible for the smallest turnout in many years was also responsible for a new record in the annals of the ancient sport of foot racing...
...each hill, the wooden-faced Indian, pattering along in the rain, was soon out of sight of his closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
...field of twelve colleges only M. I. T., Princeton, and Brown were able to better the record of the Crimson sailors. The leading skipper of the meet was an M. I. T., man, Runyan Colie, with Roger Wilcox '41 and James A. Roussmaniere '40 among the pacesetters...
Representing the world of sport will be Buddy Hasset of the Boston Bees baseball team and Victor Jones, sports editor of the Boston Globe. George C. MacKinnon, columnist with the Boston Record, will preside as Master of Ceremonies...
Piling up two victories to its record, unmarred since the season officially opened, the Crimson ruggers trounced the Tigers 11 to 0 at Princeton Saturday afternoon and downed St. Andrew's yesterday afternoon...