Fifty-five runners, many with long beards, all dirty, some wearing bandages where they had been bitten by dogs or hit by cars, others limping with chafed feet or with the bunions from which the troupe derived its title, jogged through Manhat- tan to Madison Square Garden where, after 20 miles on a board track, they finished a transcontinental (3,422.3 mile) marathon. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle and his associate W. H. ("Easy") Pickens con- gratulated Winner Andrew Payne of Claremore, Okla., promised to pay him $25,000, promised John Salo of Passaic, N. J.,...
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