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FINN STΑ DARD BEARERS ud.YS Marathon to Be Best Ever Spectator at First Race 5 1 Υ ears Ago, Arthur Duff ey Claims Field Τ ops The� All ΒΥ ARTHUR DUFFEY kinton is now easi1y reached from Liίe, for the Marathon, begins Turkey, sin1ply by fiying the At1antic at 51. and transferring to a bus at Park sq, He has come to Boston with a recoι·d Now is the time that all good men that indicates he can add tlιe Β.Α,Α. look back into the past, to recall race to his conquests, From Finland, rising out of the wastes of war, Mil,ko 011ce again the majesty and the Hietanen and Vaino Muinonen have υ glory, and the heartaches too, which followed a trail blazed years ago by ο their countrynιan, Albin Stenroos. have been paced into the pavements Tlιey hope to better his course by run ρ from Hopkinton, to Boston by the ning to glory tomorrow, π Two Greekι Listed ύ runners who have known the fame, Κ or the sorrow, of the Β. Α. Α, Gamt Gr6ece so enjoyed her taste classics of bygone years. of triu111ph last year tlιat she has sent υ t,vo Greek.s to the starting line for \ Finland's two repr�entat.iο es in the Β. Α: Α. M�rathon Saturday. �ef\ 1947. Stylfanos Kyriakides has re- , to rig\1t they are Mίkkoί Hιctanan': and Vaιno Muιnonan. They are l11gh HAS COLOR, APPEAL turned, a far healthieι· and far μ stι·onger man than was tlιe hungry ly rated and should be well up among the leaders and many experts are champion who relied on courage to ηeven predicti�g a Finnish victory. Ι would prefer tό look to the future. wln a year ago, and he has sh,own the τ Never before ln history have Ι route to Athanaios Ragazos, one of σ 1 ι known a Marιιthon to boast the color, the few runners ever to show him the a,ppeal and the prospect of tomor π the way to a tinlsh!ng line in Europe. , row's 1·ace. Never before has such The Canadian contlngent is on hand, ε internatlonal navor been poured upoΛ sti'onger than any of the past. Headed ν Boston's most tamed raceway. May by two former winners, Gerard Cote α Ι Ιοοk back just for a moment to and Walter Young, the MapJe Leaf Beef Stew Rewaτd reca.11 that Ι was present at the tin will also be borne on the chests of Π lsh ο! the f\rst Marathon those 51 such competent competitors as Lloyd There will be much of the familiar years ago? With the except!on ο! a. Evans and Ab Morton. η to the Marathon tomonow. The few col!ege ye9s at Georgetown and But never forget, tomorrow !s Paκ course wlJI be tlιe same as Jt has th& A,pri!s dur!ng World war Ι, Ι have triots' Day, and there will be theή full been these many year·s. The Welles ,ιeen eτery Bόston Marathon from quota of modern-day Americanθ pa ly College girls wlll scream at the that day to this. triots ready to meet the challengeο of leaders, as thelr mothers did before And tomorrow should be the great fered by the champions ο! theseι other them. TJιose Newton hills wlll be as <1st Patriots' Day race ο! them aJI. countries a.nd continents. λ mountalnous as ever. The beef stew There ls none in thι, world better The world has progressed amazingly β the reward of the tlnishers, will be n� 1 l!lince the day when the runners than Johnny Kelley, ιthe neighborly warmer, ηο cool�r, nor a.ny more fla dodged horses and buggies and trod veteran from WestΒ Acton. Charley vorable than ever before. over cobblestones to win their way Robbins, who ordinarily do·es hls best But ln the face of this new fnter to' the t\nish line. And the Marathon running in the ηautumn months, can national pageantry, Ι p1·efer today to has kept the pace. The airplane, win, if' only heσ w!ΙΙ 1·un ln April as he look to the tuture. among other modern wonders, has does Ιn October. Α definite new hope, Yesterday was g!orious indeed, but brought the tape stretched across with the prizeίη of youth ln his favor, 1 a greater· Marathon glory belongs to Exeter st. lnto the slght alike of & !s Ted οVogel, the Tufts College εtu tomonow and to the years to come. palr of competitors from ancient Ath dent fromUnknown Watertown Can. Do It <1ns and of a trio of Koreans from π SEVEN WINNERS Asia on the όther side of the εun, ο Olympic King Entered ιAnd, as ever, theι·e 1s the possibilfty φthat an unknown, entert'>d trom any NOW ΙΝ MARATHON, ο! the bamlets ο! the nation, may rise 1 The colors of Turkey, Finland andη Seven Β. Α. Α. J\faι·athon winners Hawaii also w!II f\y toιnorrow a1ong out of obscurity to the heights of the j Ψ Newton hills and victory. of the Past wi!J etart the 51st annuaΊ ιιide the more familiar emblems on This 1s always the tίme of year race tomonow, as a result of the / the breasts of the American and Ca when friends phone rne with the plea entry yesterday of Walter Young ot nadian runners. ·The tradition, the that Ι write once agafn of the glories Verdun, Ρ. Q,, Canada, the 1937 vic- , navor and the keen competition of and the sorrows of the past. They tοι-. He has not run since 1939, when the OJymplc ga,mes themselves will tel1 me that Ι arn tlie onJy writer 1 he finlshed third. be a, part of the 1947 mode1 of Boston's still ln business who can recall from 1 In addltlon to Young, ·stylianos R:y ι-reatest free show !η sports. personal experience the day those 61 rιakιdes,_ _ Johnny Kelley, Joe Smith, From far-away Korea has come the years ago when J. J. McDermott of Clarence DeMar, Gerard Cote and Jast Oly:ni_pic champion, Kitei Son, New York jogged to the finish line T�rzan Brown will be seeking repeat who has de-Japaηesed hls name and at the now deceased Irvlngton Oval trιumphs at the starting gun, Other will be listed tomorrow as Ki Chung to wln the flrst Β. Α. Α, Marathon ln ei:tries yesterday were Thomas J. Sohn !η the 11st of entrίes. With ·him 2 hours, 55 minutes, 10 seconds tirne. Gιlday, a chlef carpenter's nιate Ιn today !η Boston ls Seong Yong Nam, They want to read again Ιιοw John the navy, and Iggy Rusczyk of Buf.' who won third honors ln that last Graham brought the idea for the Ma falo. Olympic Marathon before the war. rathon back t,o Boston fι•om the 1896 TheM last entrles brought the totaL Α thlrd Korean, given even & better Olympic games !η Athens. to 181 starters. chance to win by many than his eld They tel1 me that they never tlre ers, is Yun Bok Su. Just a few 11hort ο! the oft-repeated stories ο! the day days &Α'Ο Boston was thousands of ln 1911 when Clarence DeMar first 1niles and one ocean distant from won and began the process wlιich thtlίr homeland. At noonwil1 tomorrow lengthened ·his name to Clarence De Exeter st. and vlctory be just 26 Marathon, 01· ot the popular victories miles, 385 yards beyond thei� grasp. of Bill Kennedy, the bricklayer, in Seoki Koru has discoveι·&d ιthat Hop- 1917, and smilJng Jiιnrny Henigan in 1931. They say that there's still a laugh in the recollection of the day in 1907 when Tom Longboat and Bob Fowler were dueling at Framingham 'l.n� & train Cl'Obsed the road between them. The Indian was οη the Boston slde and went on to victory. Fowler couldn't 'have gotten through '"1:lιe train even lf he'd had a ticket. .