The Waterbury Democrat., 1935-04-18

of Americas greatest distan marathon.
 More than 200 distance derby pluggers, including the cream of the crop of both the United States and Canada, are entered, and probably about 190 of these will trot down the knoll from Lucky Rock Manor, Hopkinton, as the flat staccato of a blank cartridge echoes through the Middlesex countryside at 12 noon.
 Two and a half hours later, or thereaboute, the winner will snap the tape in front of the B. A. A. clubhouse in Boston's Back Bay, having led the pack over the 26- nnile-385-yard course that will be lined with nearly half a million spectators.
 Quite A Puzzle
 Who'll win is, as always, any, body's guess. Many a dark horse has bolted from the pack to cap- ture the event in years gone by, while the irrepreseible Clarence Harrison De Mar, New Hampshire schoolmaster now nearing his 47th birthday, has defied the ravages of time and confounded dopesters by winning the classic seven times in the last quarter century. De Mar will be in there again tomorrow, wearing his traditional No. 1, but if he finishes in the first 30 he'll be satisfied.
 Top Choice
 The favorites seem to rank some- thing like this:
 1. John Adelbert Johnny ) Kelley, 27, Arlington's flying flor ist'' and last years rupner-up. He won the North Medford 20-mile race both last year and this year, and in his more recent victory he clipped five minutes off his previ- ous record. He is four pounds heavier than last year, weighing 123, and is stronger and speedier. His thigh has troubled him but this is not expected to prove handicap.
 2. Dave Komonen, 36, gaunt, blond Finnish carpenter from Sub- bury, Ont, who won the classic last year, beating Kelley by about four minutec In fine form, he hopes to repeat. He was runner?up in 1893 and finished seventh in 1881.
 3. Mel Porter, barrel-chested member of the German American : A. (. of New York, who finished 11th last year. Tom Randy, man. ager of the marathon, picks Porter ; to win. Porter has won three dis tance races in New York this sea- ssson.
 <, Leslie Samuel Pawson, 3D. year old city foreman from Paw tuoket, K. l., who holds the E. A. A. marathon record of hours 31 minutes 1 3-5 seconds, established in 1883. He expects to win tomor- row and hopes to lower that time.
 s. Paul De Bruyn, 27-year-old German from New York, who s: danced at d German social after Winning the marathon in 1882.
 Just to make the field complete, the veteran Johnny (Cigars) Con- nors, who puffs as he plods, will be in the race.
 @ T never smoked so many cigars Z in all my life,' Unexplained, ESQ feel that I ought to be at least among the leaders, for never did l feel better
 roston. April 1S-(UP)-Twen- ty-one new entries announced to- day increased the field for the an- nual Boston A. A. Patriots Day marathon class to 207.
 Tn late entrants are: Edwin ! White, Michael Dwyer, Walter Heintz, Nick Gallonopolus, Charles Fretig, Arthur Hall and Arthur Ladley, all of, the Tappan Post, A. L., Staten Island, N. Y.; Jim Shaw, Vic Callard, Alex Galbraith, Ted Butler and Grant Hackley, all of the Monarch A. C., Toronto; Ar thur D. Hall, Brookline; John De Costa, Somerville; Wesley Richard son, Somerville; George F. Null vaney, Providence, R. L.; Leonard LaBelle, Marlboro; Charles k. Gould, Boston; John M. Dunn, Brookline; Parker Weaver, South bridge; Arnott Sampson, Waltham, Gordon A. Norman, Beverly; An- thony Bryce, Boston; James Drew ing, Boston; D. Reid Mcdonald, Boston, and Walter Lillyman, Fox harn