Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the Boston K. of C. Meet comeback of Joe McClusky in the two-mile two weeks ago, the longer distance will surpass the mile classic tonight. Glen Cunningham is generally conceded the mile in the light of his easy recent victories and the fact that San Romani was badly spiked last week in the Millrose Games. So tonight the fans will be hanging over the balconies for a McClusky-Don Lash duel...
...Dominions it is not done, but in England last week swank Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid, M. P., did not seem to think he was hurting his standing with his constituents when he sued to obtain half the $400,000 yearly income of his wife, a sister of Lady Louis Mountbatten...
Then abruptly the action was settled out of court. Rumor had it that Captain Cunningham-Reid had secured a "handsome settlement," and his wife also paid the legal costs...
...Cunningham, San Romani, and Venzke were at the start ready to go when Lash announced he would also run the mile. But Lash did not prove to be the iron man for he was far behind at the end of race. The first half was slow, and Cunningham had plenty of strength to send him out ahead at the finish. The finish was fast, but the time, 4:13.8, two seconds slower than his time last year...
Champions were entered in every event. Cunningham, San Romani, and Venzke were running the mile. Ben Johnson, Eulace Peacock, Marty Glickman, and Lawrence Scanlon were in the dash. The great Don Lash, who last year in the B. A. A. Games set a world record in the two-mile distance was running again, and was also reputed to be considering taking a crack at the mile record. All the starts were coming...