The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-04-21
'TARzAN' BROWN
 SET STRENUOUS PACE IN VICTORY
Boston Marathon Drew l82 Starters-Kel-
 ley Fifth
BY FRANK MURPHY United Press Stan Correspondent

0OotObI xApAA OGI-GSAAAoOAA Myers (Tarzan) Brown, called "deer- foot" in the thinned ranks of the Narragansett Indians, held the first berth on the United States Olympic track and field team today follow ing his whooping victory In the 40th annual Boston A. A. marathon.
 Setting a pace 50 punishing it had "big name" runners eventually falling far behind or dropping out entirely, the 22-year-old Rhode Island Redman led a field of 182 Americans and Canadians over the 26-mile-385-yard Hopkinton-to -Bos- ton course in a hours B minutes 40 4-5 seconds yesterday to win the right to start in the Olympic marathon at Berlin next summer.
 Uncertain
 The two remaining berths on the three-man Olympic marathon squad remained very much open, so scrambled did Browns near-record performance leave the standings of other leading distance runners.
 Johnny Kelley Of Arlington, 1885 B. A. A. winner, who wrested the lead from Brown briefly three times over the last half of the route only to wilt on the stretch and finish a poor fifth, must run in the second and last marathon tryout at Wash- ington Memorial day if he hopes to clinch an Olympic post-yet before yesterdays race the flying florist said under no conditions" would he run at Washington.
 Pat Dengis of Baltimore and Les Pawson of Pawtucket, R. l., rated highly before the race, must stake their all on the Washington per- formance since Dengis, 1884 B. A. A. runnerup, and Pawson, who set the court record of 2:31:01 3-5 in 1883, both succumbed to Browns Indian sign and failed to finish.
 William F. (BilD McMahon of Worcester, who surprised by finish ing in 2:35:27 3-5, about 300 yards behind Brown, hasn't enough mara thoning triumps to merit Olympic consideration without an equally good showing in Washington.
 But Mel Porter of Newark, N. J., who, running his own race, came fast at the end to clinch third position, should be very much in the Olympic picture if he turns in a good performance in the Washing ton marathon. The capital classic is right down Porters' alley, for Mel was second there both in 1883 and 1884, and third a yea rago. Next to Brown, Porter's stock perhaps scared the highest in the B. A. A. test.
 Finishing behind Brown, Mo- Mahon and Porter in the coveted first ten" yesterday were Leo o. Gi- ard, Brockton, fourth; Kelley, fifth; Alex Burnside, Toronto, Ont, sixth; i; Earle Collins, Maiden, seventh; An- thony J. Paskell, West Lynn, eighth; Vic Callard, Toronto, ninth; and James M. Shaw, Toronto, tenth.
 The "old timers" made surpris- ingly good showings, considering the hot pace. Clarence Harrison De Mar, 48-year old Keene, N. H., school teacher and seven-time winner, fin- ished 18th; Smiling Jimmy Henigan, 43, of Medford, 1881 winner, was 18th; and white-haired bricklayer Bill Kennedy, 52, Port Chester, N. r., 1917 winner, 18th.
 The United Press learned from an unimpeachable source that Brown is "in" as one of Uncle Sam's Olympic marathon competitors - although under pre-ordained rules his name as well as the two yet to be select cd cannot be posted until after the Washington run.
 The new B. A. A. marathon cham pion is a perfectly-proportioned youth, raven-haired, of copper skin and with the high cheekbones and expressionless countenance charac- teristic of his race. Youngest boy of six children-three girls and three boys-Brown has been living with an uncle, Charles Babcock, at Alton R. l., since the death of his mother a week before the 1885 B. A. A. race in which he placed 18th. He works for his uncle, a mason.
 It was Ellison's fourth attempt in the Boston classic, his first try get ting him 32d place in 1883 and his second 28th in 1884. After last year s race-which he finished barefooted Brown began to come strong, win ming the natoinal 20 and % kilo- meter championships, as well as a marathon held at Amsterdam, N Y. He ran yesterday under colors of the Providence Precautionary committee, which supervised his training.
 Brown is a protege of Horatio Stanton, an Indian who for years tried to emulate the victory of the great Tom Longboat, an Onondagc Indian from Canada, in the B. A A. marathon of 1907. Brown gets his middle name, Myers, from Chiei Myers, an Indian who made good in big league baseball.
 Other finishers yesterday includ- ed: Augustus Johnson, Port Ches- ter, N. Y., 11th; Cecil R. Hill, Rev. erly, 18th: John Paul, St. John, N B., 18th: Louis Young. Beverly, 14th James E. Lewis, Medford, 18th; De- Mar, 18th; William Wiklund, Pas saic, N. J., l7th; Henigan, 18th; Kennedy, 18th; Robert A. Hamilton Florence, Cape Breton, N. S., 20th: Fred Ward, New York, 21st: Walter nav Ravarix, 1Qd. (sifo s.d Nofa Gf