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...this race two years ago that Bob Playfair ran Bonthron into the ground in the last hundred yards and won the race by a margin of six seconds over the first Yale man to place. Last year also Playfair won the race, and today he will go out for his third consecutive win, which should make a record of some sort...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARRIERS ENTRAIN FOR TRI-MEET AT PRINCETON | 11/9/1935 | See Source »

Married, William Robert ("Bill") Bonthron, 22, Princeton miler; and Marion McLennan Lineaweaver, of Princeton, N. J.; in Montreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Jul. 8, 1935 | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Princeton Mile | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...last of the six events, the mile race contested by four young men from both sides of the world who have been individually chasing each other to fabulous marks for the past three years but who had never before met collectively. In the eight times that Princeton's Bonthron, Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania have raced together, Cunningham has come home in front five times, Bonthron thrice. Bon-thron meantime has had a separate series with John Edward Lovelock, the little New Zealand medical student with a collection of blazers from Otago, Oxford and London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Princeton Mile | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

...Indian file. At the half they spread in echelon, Cunningham in the lead. A slow third quarter saw Venzke trailing and by the time the gun rang out for the last lap it looked as if the long office hours in a Manhattan accounting firm were going to put Bonthron out of the race. Then things began to happen. Sailing down the home stretch with his mincing gait, Jack Lovelock stepped a full eight yards out in front of Cunningham, whose stocky figure suddenly went dead beat. Thereupon, "Bonny" Bonthron began pumping his hairy legs like pistons, passed Cunningham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Princeton Mile | 6/24/1935 | See Source »

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