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...five of the six major miles, ran the first half of the race two seconds faster than he did in 1934, but failed by three-tenths of a second to break his record. The three other entrants - Kansas' Archie San Romanj, Italy's Luigi Beccali, New York's Gene Venzke-finished so close together that the last one's time was less than three seconds worse than the winner...
Major event on the schedule of the Amateur Athletic Union's indoor track & field championships last week was the 1,500-metre run, with Glenn Cunningham, 1936 Olympic runner-up and Luigi Beccali. 1932 Olympic champion, heading a crack field. A mysterious ailment, described by its victim as "like tonsillitis except that I haven't any tonsils." kept Cunningham on the sidelines. His Kansas confrere, Archie San Romani, music student at Kansas State Teachers College, won the race from Beccali by a foot, with Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke third...
...Italian, Luigi Beccali, Olympic 1,500-metre champion in 1932, chose not to run, wanting more time to train. The Hungarian, Miklos Szabo, who recently broke the world record for 2,000 metres, canceled his entry after he caught cold walking in Central Park. The identical twins, Blaine & Wayne Rideout, students from North Texas State Teachers College, did run, but fared badly...
...victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner at Los Angeles in 1932. The U. S. had Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani and Glenn Cunningham, all three good enough to beat Bill Bonthron, who held the world's record for 1,500 metres, in the Olympic tryouts last month. Sweden had dependable Eric Ny and Canada...
Lovelock's time was 3:47.8, a new world's record by a round second. The next four finishers-Cunningham, Beccali, San Romani, Edwards-broke the Olympic record of 3:51.2. In his dressing room, Lovelock coolly admitted he had known that incorrect placing of the starting line had cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could...