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Tarzan Jones wins his second Marathon
By adamg on Mon, 04/21/2014 - 12:14pm
In 1939, three years after he had bested local favorite Johnny Kelly - barefoot, and with a burst of speed at the top of what is now Heartbreak Hill - Ellison "Tarzan" Jones won his second Boston Marathon.
Leslie Jones photo from the BPL Marathon collection. Posted under this Creative Commons license.
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Brown
Not Jones.
One of the great Marathon stories, though, and thanks for reminding me of it, Adam!
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