Word: bonthron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accident but a fine piece of respectable pressagentry accounts for the prestige of the Princeton Invitation Track Meet, most notable event of its sort to be founded since the War. After swift William Robert ("Bonny") Bonthron (Class of 1934) turned Princeton's eyes once more to track & field events, Graduate Manager Asa Smith Bushnell and freckled, good-natured Publicity Director Frederick Spring Osborne hit upon the idea of staging a post-season track meet in Palmer Stadium for the elite. So well was the idea promoted that no less than 40,000 spectators turned up in the concrete horseshoe...
...Jack Scheu hits top form in the 1500, the record of 4:02 set by Bill Bonthron two years ago will fall, and the javelin record is almost certain to be raised by Dick Johnson, who may set a new mark of more than 200 feet...
...close match against his clumsier countryman, Miklos Szabados, who injured his right hand by falling; in London. C. Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas runner: the Baxter Mile, feature event of the annual New York Athletic Club indoor track meet; in 4.09.8, with his two onetime rivals, Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron, 30 and 40 yards behind; in Manhattan...
...three most famed mile runners in the U. S. are Glenn Cunningham, who holds the world's indoor record of 4:08.4; Bill Bonthron, who last year beat Cunningham in three races out of five; Gene Venzke, who held the record three years ago, last season functioned as pacemaker for the other...
...Manhattan last week, a crowd of 16,000 went to see Venzke, Bonthron and Cunningham renew their rivalry, found that Venzke had learned the trick of sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as ever. When Cunningham broke the tape he was 2.6 sec. short of his record but he was first by 7 yd. Venzke, who had sprinted into the lead on the next to last lap, was second. Bonthron, in his first start of the season, was third...