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Show FIFTY-NINE-YEAR-OLD RUNNER TO COMPETE New York, Aug. 28. James Shan--ley of Brooklyn, flfty-nlne-year-old marathon runner, who now competes for the Etna club, Is out with a challenge chal-lenge to race O. S. Weeks, tho forty-elght-year-old star of the Pennant Athletic club of the Bronx, over the full marathon route, twenty-six miles, 385 yards. In order to avoid getting into trouble trou-ble with the Amateur Athletic Union, which prohibits match races, Sbanley suggests that the contest be open to all athletes over forty-five years of age. |