. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cape Cod Has Grower of Cranberries Who Is Also a Marathon Runner J. Foxecroft Carleton, Jr., of East Sandwich Has Finished for Past 15 Years in Famous B. A. A. Run — Plans To Run Again Next Year. By CLARENCE J. HALL Cape Cod has a cranberry-blue- berry grower who is also a mara- thon runner—and a good one. He is probably the only man who com- bines these three things in his career. He is J. Foxcroft Carleton, Jr., of East Sandwich, Mass. He was born Jan. 9, 1898 on the "old homestead" where he still lives, and is in his 4
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. Cape Cod Has Grower of Cranberries Who Is Also a Marathon Runner J. Foxecroft Carleton, Jr., of East Sandwich Has Finished for Past 15 Years in Famous B. A. A. Run — Plans To Run Again Next Year. By CLARENCE J. HALL Cape Cod has a cranberry-blue- berry grower who is also a mara- thon runner—and a good one. He is probably the only man who com- bines these three things in his career. He is J. Foxcroft Carleton, Jr., of East Sandwich, Mass. He was born Jan. 9, 1898 on the "old homestead" where he still lives, and is in his 40th year, and has been running for years and also raising cranberries and blue- berries. The cranberries and blue- berries are his bread and butter; running is his hobby. He is a bachelor. He has a small bog of his own, assists his father in the operation of the latter's bog, and manages other small cranberry acreage. He started growing cultivated blue- berries in 1925. He has approxi- mately four acres of blueberries, with approximately 5,000 plants. Last year he raised between 3,000 and 4,000 quarts and expects this season to be his biggest yet. That qualifies him as a cranberry-blue- berry grower. On April 19th of this year he ran his 15th marathon over the famous Boston Athletic Associa- tion course, which is generally con- ceded by sports writers to be the country's foremost marathon. The best marathon runners in the coun- try enter each year and the cream of the Canadian runners also come down for the event. This year it was won by a Canadian. In the fifteen races which he has run over this course he has never failed to finish the 26 gruelling miles over usually burning, hard pavement from the little town of Hopkinton into Boston's Back Bay. He finished 9th in 1926, he has finished 13th Four. J. FOXCROFT CARLETON and has been 19th twice. A good many of the hundred or so starters drop out somewhere along the way but the Sandwich cranberry man never has, so that qualifi
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