With 38 year old Meb Keflezighi winning today's Boston Marathon, here's some footage from British Pathe news of the 1938 Boston Marathon, won by Lesley Pawson: '33 years old, and referred to as a has been, comes through to win in 2 hours 35 minutes'. Les Pawson, from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, also won the Boston Marathon in 1933 and 1941. He died in 1992.
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| Pawson at the end of 1938 Boston Marathon |
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| Meb Keflezighi in Boston today - his time was 2 hours, 8 minutes and 37 seconds |
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'Wellesley College girls cheer the leaders as they pass the campus' (1938) The Wellesley College 'Scream Tunnel' today - still making noise at the Marathon halfway point (photo fr0m Sporting News) |
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