Well-deserved honour for Joe West, Cork’s Olympic marathoner

Compared to the numbers in road races nowadays, just 13 hardy runners toed the line. It was a handicap race, with most of that small field starting off two to two-and-a-half minutes ahead of the scratch man, Joe West, then of the Rising Sun club. The closest to him at the start was Johnny Harte from Carrigtwohill who had a one-minute handicap.
