
47 - Bricklayer Bill
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
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Bricklayer Bill and the Boston Marathon
Bill arrived in Boston riding on the roof of a baggage car three days before the marathon and secured a bricklang job to pay his way back. The next morning, the Boston Globe ran a big feature with cartoon illustrations relating how Bill had thumbed his nose at his skeptical athletic club. He only finished 15th in the marathon that year, but in 1916, he came in sixth.
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