The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-20
CLARENCE DEMAR REPEATS AND WINS 25MILE MARATHON
For Second Time in History of Race a Winner
 Repeats

Boston. April 19.-The long dis tance runner in the country eleven years ago proved himself the best to- day, when Clarence IT. Demar, of Melrose, raced home a winner for tho second time of the Boston athletic associations annual marathon road race.
 Not only did he defeat & field of the fastest mixers in tho United States and Canada. including five other winners of this event, but he set new record for the distance. Demars time of two hours. IS min utes, ten seconds. for the 25 miles of rolling roads. was AZ S-5 seconds bet ter than the record made by Frank T. Zuna of New York, (who was eighth today) in winning last year. It was three and one half minutes fast CT than the time Demar made as champion in 1911. which was itself a record.
 While RftOIh Second
 Second to Demar was Willie Ritola, of New York. 8 newcomer to the American marathon, but always within the first five today. He fin ished three minutes and a half be- hind Demar in hours, 21 minutes, A 4-5 seconds. The next three men were: Albert Smoke, of Peterboro. Ont, the Indian who is champion of Canada at long distance, time hours 21 minutes. 49 4-5 seconds Victor McAuley of Windsor, N. S., maritime provincial star, who finished in two hours. 24 minutes, 3-5 seconds, and Willie Kyronen of New York. who moved up from seventh last year to fifth today. in two hours 24 minutes, 445 seconds.
 Demar's positions at several early stages of the race indicate how he won. He Jagged bit at the start in Ashland, slipped through the scat tered field of sixty-odd runners in the next four miles and was eighth at South B'ramin gham, fourth at Natick, four miles farther on, where Tom Henigan, Ritola and Zuna pre- ceded him. and second at the half way mark. with Tom Henigan ahead. It was over the hills In the Newtons that Demar made the gains which forced Tom Henfgan back
 "I thought when Henigan took the lead from me that he was too fast for me-, he remarked arterward,, but when he tired fin front of Bos, ton college, I felt pretty confident that I would win.
 After finishing with spring. De- mar said first he was fresh as daisy. then admitted he was "a bit dizzy" from his effort to speed up on the home stretch. But, while men who finished several minutes after him were laid out he drank soda pop and ate frankfurters. remarking that when 1 won in 1911 we had beer"
 Second to Repeat
 Demar is the second runner in the history of the American marathon to win the event twice. It was back in 1900-01 that J. j.. Caffrey, of Hamilton, Ontario, gained his double success. attempted almost annually since by one time winners. Demar ran in the American marathon in 1917, when he finished third. Then he went to war and did not start in race again until today. He did not come out of running retirement pre- cipitately, however. Always a man of regular habits, he said he found when he returned from France that he could still run pretty well". He got a job as compositor recently in Mall den, four miles from his home, and day after day ran to work and back again.
 Sometimes I'd run part of the