Word: bonthron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...glad of that." So said Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas senior, as he arrived in Manhattan last week for Princeton's "perfect race." That race was to include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would ever walk again, are too delicate to stand much preliminary pounding. The day of the race he motored to Princeton where Venzke and Bonthron...
...Yale's 25½. California's five-man team was third with 20. Two firsts by Bob Kiesel (100-meter and 200-meter sprints), piled up half of California's score. ¶ Only man beside Kiesel to win two firsts was Princeton's famed Bill Bonthron. He won the 1,500-meter run easily, with Penn's Venzke second. In the 800-meter race, he started his sprint late, suddenly found himself blocked by a line of runners across the track, wove through the field like a football player to beat Manhattan's Bill...
Coach Eddie Farrell had faith in Scheu's ability and has been working with him until he ranks second only to Bill Bonthron among the teams that the Crimson runners face...
...Harvard should pick up four more points on the sturdy legs of Captain Jack Morse and Tony Bliss. Both of these men are indicated as fourth place winners. Jack Schou is going to have tough sledding against Vipond and Bonthron and Venske, but some depesters give him fifth. Bob Playfair ought to bring two points to the Crimson camp by taking fourth in the 3200 and Cahners is given fourth in the hammer...
Penn. Franklin Field was one vast, miserable mud puddle, but 5,000 spectators turned out in the rain to see the ½mi. anchor-leg duel in the sprint medley between Indiana's Charles ("Chuck") Hornbostel and Princeton's William ("Bonny") Bonthron. Hornbostel's team mates gave him an advantage of 4 yd. at the start, but the spectacled Hoosier runner, who looks more like some obscure grind in a chemistry department than a track captain, did not need it. At the finish. Bonthron 6 yd. behind. Next day Indiana also won the one-and two-mile...