From The World Cross Country Runners Archives- The Day Boomer Cadger Set The Record Straight

As a casual perusal of this photograph will tell back in the days when runners were honed at incessantly by irate motorists and pedestrians, mocked by children and old-timers as menaces to society one Boomer Cadger let all that go as so much wind, like some annoying fly. Boomer started running when he was maybe seven or eight along the sands of La Jolla beaches dodging surfers and laughing sand pail little girls. When he came of age though he blew all his competition away, went like that wind mentioned a moment ago. Won many races against older more experienced if not as hungry men. And for his herculean efforts he received some beef stew and the scorn of two or three young women he was interested in who would not dream of dating a guy running around in his underwear or who was not football hero fit.