Runners

Along dirt roads from Kansas City to Lawrence, Kan., a pair of sandals went clump-hua-clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . In the sandals were the red feet of Jose Torres of the Tarahumara tribe of Chihuahua, Mexico, who last week ran this 51 miles in 6 hr. 46 min. 41 sec. (a speed of about 8 m. p. h). In regulation track shoes, Purcell Kane, an Apache of Haskell Institute, finished second. Three other Indians also ran. Jose Torres, as everyone knows, recently covered 89.4 miles of concrete road in 14 hr. 53 min. (TIME, April 4).

Last week in Minneapolis, Minn., Harry Duell, no Indian, started out to run 90 mi. on an indoor track. After eating up 76 mi. in 9 hr. 15 min. he quit. Cause: leg cramp.

Clarence H. De Mar of Melrose, Mass., 38, who sets type six days and teaches Sunday School the seventh, last week jogged over 26 miles and 385 yards of warm asphalt in 2 hr. 40 min. 221/5 sec., won the annual marathon of the Boston A. A. for the fifth time.