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Marathon, First as the runners left the stadium after the start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...
...Little Zabala was still in front after eight miles. Then the crowd at a street intersection saw Margarito Pomposa Banos, the Mexican, catch up and go past him. Five miles further on, Zabala was first again. At 15 miles another runner caught him. This time it was Lauri Virtanen, Finland's substitute for Nurmi. Virtanen tired as soon as he had the lead, quit the race. At 22 miles, Duncan MacLeod Wright, seasoned Scottish marathoner, passed Zabala and held the lead for two miles...
...Juan Carlos Zabala, Argentine distance runner: a 10,000-metre run in 31 min. 26.6 sec.-1.8 sec. better than Joie Ray's U. S. record; in Manhattan. Paavo Nurmi's world record...