ST. LOUIS – The Olympic Marathon race, the third foot race contest of the kind ever held and the first ever held on American soil, participated in by 31 men classed among the fleetest runners of the world, was won today by Thomas J. Hicks of Cambridge, Mass., who is the first American to win this event celebrated the revival of Olympic games. Albert J. Corrie of Chicago, a native born Frenchman crossed the goal line second and A. L. Newton of New York City, crossed third. The distance of the race was 40 kilometers, equal to 24 miles and 1500 yards. Hicks in the officially announced time of three hours 28 minutes and 53 seconds; Corrie, three hours and 34 minutes and 16 seconds; Newton, three hours 47 minutes and 33 seconds. The first Olympic Marathon race was held at Athens, Greece in 1896, and won by Loues, a Greek; the second at Paris in 1900, won by Teato of France.

50 Years Ago, 1954

The outer fringe of Hurricane Carol, which flung itself against New England with tempestuous fury, also lashed the Twin Cities with driving rain and gale-force winds, causing several thousand dollars worth of property damage. Electrical and telephone services were knocked out, trees, power line poles, limbs and branches were felled like match sticks, as the winds reaching gusts as high as 78 miles an hour pummeled the cities.

25 Years Ago, 1979

The U.S. Department of Energy embarked on an energetic program which could cut the nation’s consumption of heating oil by 400,000 barrels a day, a saving of approximately $2 billion during the plan’s nine-month life. The program asks that shops, businesses, offices, factories and other non-residential buildings not be heated higher than 65 degrees in the winter or cooled lower than 78 degrees in the summer.