Half a Century of Running

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IN 1909 at the age of twenty-one, Clarence DeMar placed fourth in a long-distance, cross-country run at the University of Vermont, where he was later awarded a letter in athletics. His last race was run in 1957, when, at the age of sixty-nine, he ran a 15-kilometer "marathon" in Bath, Maine. The intervening forty-nine years is a saga of marathon running unequaled in the annals of marathoning in this country. During this time he entered 34 and won 7 of the 25–26-mile marathons from Hopkinton (formerly started at Ashland) to Boston sponsored by the Boston Athletic Association. On 15 occasions . . .

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