Posted by Leon Mattics on May 25, 2005 at 08:30:36:
From the Mobile Register's Yesterday's News.
Sunday, May 25 1930.
"Darting from last place in the ranks of a field of 30 runners to front position ... George Shearer won the marathon championship of Mobile yesterday afternoon in the long distance race sponsored by the Register and News-Item and the Lyric theatre. His time was 11 minutes."