The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-18
JOHNNY KELLEY
 AGAINST FIELD
 IN B. X. A. RACE
Dergis, Brown Also Liked as Choice to Win 26-
 Mile Marathon
By FRANK MURPHY

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Boston, April 18.-(UP)-1t will be the field against Johnny Kelley in the 10th annual Boston A. A. mara thon Monday.
 Wearing the envied "No. tag as recognition for his victory 8 year ago, 28-year-old John Adalbert Kelley of Arlington will be the man to beat as close to 200 finely-trained athletes jog over the historic Hop kinton- to- Boston course this Pa- triot day in the battle for Olympic recognition.
 Pat Dentis, cock Baltimore Scot who ran at Johnny's heels last year, has a host of packers. So has Elli- son (Tarzan) Brown, Narragansett Indian from Rhode Island who ran 18th in 1885 and later won the national 20 and 25-kilometer titles. So has Les Pawson of Pawtucket, 1883 winner and holder of the course record. So have Mel Porter, Billy Steiner and Fred Ward of New York; Albert (Whitey) Michel sen of Bridgeport, Conn; Gordon Norman, Earle Collins, Bill Me- Mahon, Cecil Hill and Johnny Sem- pie of Massachusetts; Baltimore's Bill Agee and Canada's Scotty Ran kin. But the runner on whom most eyes will fasten as thousands on thousands line the hilly route from Rural Hopkinton to the busy Back Bay will bet he wiry little green house worker with the "No. 1" on his back and a patch of sentimental shamrock pinned over his heart.
 Those who like Kelley to repeat point to Johnny's recent victory over star field in the recent North Medford club 20-mile run. Johnny won the North Medford run year ago and went on to win the B. A. A. marathon" they tell you. "He won the North Medford race again this year, so 1t looks as if Johnny's go- ing to make 8 double" again."
 But the many who like Dentis' changes have an answer to that one
 Thumb back through B. A. A.. marathoning records" they'll sug- gest, land you'll find that on no less than five occasions has the runner-up of one year been victor ious the following year. Dentis ran second to Kelley a year ago. So this is Pats year."
 No one has worked harder than Dentis, 34-year-old airplane crafts man, in preparing for Mondays grind. Pat has been piling up 100 miles of road work a week and says he never felt better in his life. In five marathons last year Pat had two wins, two seconds and a fourth. But Pat has never beaten Kelley to a f1nish-line-and they met 13 times.
 Five former winners of the B. A. A. classic will answer the starting gun at noon Monday but only Kelley and Les Pawson will be among the favorites. Jimmy Henigan of Med- ford, 1881 winner and 11th @ year ago, must be given an outside chance. But no one expects 48-year- old Clarence H. De Mar of Keene, N. H., a seven-time winner, or 52- year bricklayer Bill Kennedy of Port Chester, N. r., the 1927 winner. to meet the challenge of youth.
 The field will be studded with "dark horses. To name 8 few, there are John De Gloria of Albany, N. Y, who was ninth three years ago; Bill Simons, Andre Brunelle and William P. Malloy, all of the Bay Statel Matt Bardsley and Joe Plouffe, Pawtucket neighbors of Pawson.
 The winner, whether he be a fa- vorite or a dark horse, is almost cer- tain to clinch one of the three places on the U. s. Olympic mara thon squad, since Mondays race and that at Washington next month are the two official tryouts.