Clarence DeMar races past the Framingham train station during the 1932 Boston Marathon as onlookers crowd the curbs.Image courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection

What: Clarence DeMar Wins the Marathon … Again
When: April 19, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1930
Where: Boston 

• Boston printer Clarence DeMar still holds the record for the most Boston Marathon wins, 100 years after he first beat all comers running the course. 
• DeMar was an Olympian three times, and won bronze for the United States as marathoner in the 1924 games, but doctors repeatedly tried to warn him off racing due to a heart murmur. 
• “Mr. DeMarathon,” as he was sometimes called, made his living as a printer and according to records of The Warren Group, publisher of Banker & Tradesman, he helped print the paper during the 1920s. 

“Not only in running, but in much of life, is a sense of balance and proportion necessary.” — Clarence DeMar in his 1937 memoir, “Marathon”