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...timer immediately thought of John Paul Jones, Norman Tabor, Paavo Nurmi, Ted Meredith, Bill Bingham and Bill Bonthron, and it was difficult to realize that today's collegians are running faster than those national and internationally famous milers and half-milers...
...that you weigh the views of a Negro youth whose choice of a college was decidedly affected by racial barriers. I was born and bred in Princeton. The events of your university during the past decade are among the most intimate of my childhood memories. I saw your Bill Bonthron challenge Glenn Cunningham. I cheered for Le Van, Fairman, and Ceppi when the Bengals were invincible. I feel that I am just as much a son of Old Nassau as many...
...Winners since 1930: Bobby Jones (golf); Barney Berlinger (track); Jim Bausch (track); Glenn Cunningham (track); Bill Bonthron (track); Lawson Little (golf); Glenn Morris (track); Don Budge (tennis); Don Lash (track...
...pick of U. S. milers: Glenn Cunningham, Chuck Fenske, Wayne Rideout, Archie San Romani, Luigi Beccali; in Boston. Eight years ago Venzke ran a 4:10 in Manhattan for a world's indoor record, for a time stayed out in front, but finally gave way to Bill Bonthron, Cunningham, others. For last week's meet, Boston meetmakers tried to shunt him into the half-mile, but Venzke said the mile or no go. In the running he trailed for seven laps, then burst in front. In the eleventh (final) lap, Cunningham broke from third place in pursuit, failed...
Like two other famed U. S. milers, Bonthron and Cunningham, San Romani's running career was stimulated by a serious leg injury in his childhood. When he was six, a truck crushed his leg. Doctors considered amputation. A onetime coal miner, San Romani first came to notice last year, when he won the National Collegiate mile in California. Last summer he beat Bonthron and Venzke in the A. A. U. 1500-metre championship. Now 24, a senior at Kansas State Teachers...