The famed Boston Marathon, run last week, was supposed to be the final Olympic tryout for 129 U.S. marathoners. But the man who won the 26-mi. 385-yd., up-&-downhill race was Gerry Cote, a 34-year-old policeman from St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. To celebrate his fourth B.A.A. triumph, jaunty Gerry gulped a bottle of beer and lit up a fat stogie. The Olympic marathon committee picked its three-man U.S. team from marathoners who had finished from 250 yards to 350 yards behind Canada's Cote.
ΒΆ In the Drake and Penn Relays, the U.S. got a more encouraging Olympic preview. At Des Moines, nimble...
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