Evening star., 1936-05-31
Pace Too Hot for DengiS.

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TAR back in eighth place. worn
down by the grueling pace of the
fast race. was Pat Dengis. the Balti-
more airplane mechanic, who won the
1885 marathon. Dengis set the pace
for the first Is miles of the race,
running well ahead of his field in
record time for the first S. 10 and Is
miles, and then, wearied by his pace
setting effort. dropped back into
fourth place.
He barely lasted to stagger across
the finish line and at one time-the
wearisome jaunt up Capitol Hill-Pat
slowed down to a walk
In fourth place was a colored en-
trant-Augustus johnson of ethe In
terstate Sport Club Of Portchester,
N. Y.
Strange stuff for a man about to
run the marathon distance was the
lunch McMahon ate a few hours be-
fore the race started at Mount Ver-
non at 2 o'clock. He ate steak
smothered in onions and an hour
after the race he tossed of two
matted milk shakes. Gee, I felt
hungry" he said. But boy, how
happy am. Hope I can run well
at Berlin"
How do your feet feel?" some one
asked him. The marathon Is a test
not only of nerve and muscle and
intestinal fortitude, but also of feet.
Many a marathoner has dropped out
with his feet mass of aching blis-
ters. They feel fine" grinned the
personable man from Worcester.
'"They feel much better than they felt
at Boston. I think the course is
better and conditions are better than
they were there"
Mcmahon finished second in the
Boston marathon on April 10 10 Tar
Ean Brown.
Runs Heady Race.
THE winner has been running dis
tance races only four years. He
runs about one year, but this year
he decided to double. He was reg
iStered from the Ancient Order of
Hibernians of Worcester, where he
trained his muscles running up and
down the hills that lie about that
interior Massachusetts, city.
For q comparatively immature
marathon runner competing against
Veterans like Porter, Les Pawson,
Whitley Nicholson and John D. Sem
pie, Mcmahon ran heady race. Al
ways up in the forefront of the pa
rade of men who lay 'em one in
front of the other, Mcmahon held
back his winning squirt until the race
was more than half over. At the
Smile mark, down on the Arlington
Boulevard, while Dengis was setting
the red-hot pace that burned MIN out,
Mcmahon was lying back with half
dozen others, $50 yards behind Den
gis and Anthony j. Paskell of Lynn,
Mass, who were running neck and
neck in first place.
At the tenth milestone, Just north
of Alexandria on the Mount Vernon
Boulevard, he had worked his way up
into seventh place, with Dengis and
Paskell still leading the parade. At
= the twelfth mile Dengis was running
200 yards in front of Paskell, with
Mcmahon running fifth, back of
kelley.
Mcmahon, Kelley Begin Duel.
RUT as the leader wore himself out
shortly after he passed over the
Arlington Memorial Bridge and headed
down into the leafy coolness of East
Potomac Park both Kelley and Nc
Mahon passed him. Down around
Hams Point they passed through lines
OF cheering holiday-makers, running
shoulder to shoulder, grabbing an
orange from an attendant here and
. sponge filled with water there.
Marathon runners do not drink wa
ter. It's bad for the tummy during q
race. They sip . sponge or wet their
mouths with orange juice. Water in
any quantity makes them Ill. Down
there somewhere In Potomac Park
Dengis had recurrence of the kidney
trouble which may have cost him the
Boston marathon. He admitted after
the race that his back hurt terribly
shortly after he left the Memorial
Bridge.
Up west from Hains Point toward
the railroad bridge and north on
= Fourteenth street Kelley and Mcmahon
ran literally shoulder to shoulder.
They were setting blistering pace
and both knew it. But neither man
weakened. Down into Constitution
avenue, through lines of automobiles
thrust aside by the police, they picked
'em up and laid 'em down, one behind
the other, still shoulder to shoulder.
Up the grueling two blocks Of Capitol
Hill they moved-slower now. for they
were weakening to Seventh street
(see MARATHON, Page 81