Word: bonthron
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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 had Negro Phil Edwards...
Cunningham, Bonthron and Venzke are three names known to all U. S. track addicts. Last week 40,000 eyes focused on this talented trio of milers as they jogged around Princeton's sun-baked track in the first lap of the Amateur Athletic Union's 1,500-metre championship run. Suddenly a tiny group intent on the pole vault let out a roar. What had happened, spectator asked spectator? A husky, blond San Franciscan by the name of George Varoff, they learned, had just twisted over the bar at the incredible height...
...meet dawned so cold and rainy that only 30,000 of the 50,000 who had reserved free seats turned up in the stands. Puddles on the track dimmed the enticing possibility that the meet's feature race, the mile between Cunningham, Venzke and Bonthron, would produce a record. It failed to do so. Venzke...
...metre run (120 yd. short of a mile), the contest between longtime Rivals Gene Venzke and Glenn Cunningham. Since he became the No. 1 sensation of the 1932 indoor season, Venzke, still a University of Pennsylvania undergraduate at 27, has, for the most part, played third fiddle to Bill Bonthron and Cunningham, has strangely lost none of his popularity with the crowd. Bonthron, now married, has retired until the third Princeton Invitation Meet in June.* Joe Mangan, one-time Cornell miler who defeated Cunningham last month, was recovering from influenza. These two were scarcely missed as a cheering crowd watched...