took young athlete under his wing when Brown turned 16 and began to train him, his first official steps to an illustrious career in marathon running that saw Brown eventually winning the Boston Marathon in both 1936 and 1939 and become a member of the 1936 U.S. Olympic team. Salimeno once said, "Tarzan ran against people, not against numbers. He probably could have broke other records, but I never pushed him. When you're in a race you don't go out for records, you go out to win."