Word: bonthron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Closer than many of Glenn Cunningham's races was the balloting which gave him the medal. He received 611 votes. Only one vote behind him was another crack middle-distance runner, Princeton's Bill Bonthron. Like Cunningham, he is most famed as a miler, but they never raced together. Bonthron amazed the sport world in the Princeton-Cornell v. Oxford-Cambridge meet last July when he ran close second to Oxford's Jack Love lock in a record-breaking mile, then stepped out and won the half-mile...
...Sullivan committee found that Cunningham "proved himself a good sportsman in running two races in every meet and sometimes three against the leading European middle-distance champions. He could have refused and would have been justified in doing so. . . ." Of Bonthron : "He has been the fighting spirit of the Princeton track team. He gave up an opportunity to compete in individual events to run as a member of the university relay team in order to enhance the chances of his teammates winning. A fine example of unselfishness and team spirit...
...race will be a close one with entries full of fast runners. Foremost of the host of favorites is William Bonthron of Princeton who upset predictions by winning both the 1500 meter and the 3000 meter in the I.C.4A. meet here at Cambridge last spring. He is one of the leading milers of the country, and is expected to win. The Harvard chances, however, seem very good this year. Robert S. Playfair '36 and Arthur S. Pier '35 lead the ten Crimson runners who are entered. Playfair is Harvard's best prospect in the race. Last year, he lost...
...year." Princeton's track coach, Matt Geis, thus called the turn three days before the sixth annual Oxford-Cambridge v. Princeton-Cornell track meet last week. In only one respect was Coach Geis's prediction awry. The race between Jack Lovelock of Oxford and William ("Bonny") Bonthron, Princeton's track captain-elect, proved to be not the best mile race of the year but the greatest of all time. The British team was already on its way to a final 4-to-8 defeat when Bonthron Lovelock, John Hazen (Cornell) and Forbes Horan (Cambridge) went...
...thousand spectators were roaring crazily as the Oxonian jogged another lap to cool out. But not without accolade was Bonny Bonthron. Though he had suffered his first collegiate defeat he, too, had broken the previous world's record by .5 sec. and after an hour's rest his brawny, black-haired legs were strong enough for another feat: he ran the half-mile...