Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year the Amateur Athletic Union awards the Sullivan Medal to the U. S. athlete "who . . . has done most during the year to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Last week the A. A. U. announced its 1933 medalist. He is Kansas University's crack middle-distance runner, Glenn Cunningham, who at the age of 8 was so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again. To develop his scarred legs he took up running, even learned to play football. But because he developed into such an expert trackman coaches forbade him to play...
Last year Glenn Cunningham ran practically every indoor or outdoor race he could find in the U. S. and Europe. He was beaten only twice, never in the mile, his best distance. On tour he carried his school books with him, studied hard enough to make good grades. He is 24, a senior, plans entering medical school or teaching physical education...
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...
...winners of the Hound and Horn Undergraduate Competition are both from Stanford. One is already familiar to the periodical world, J. V. Cunningham, recipient of the prize for verse. Albert Guerard, Jr., whose "Winter in Davos" merits the fiction award, has never before been published. "Winter in Davos" has the effect of making one wish that Gertrude Stein would not be read by undergraduates with a lust for composition; more and more does it become evident that hers is, although an eminently imitable technique, the kind that does not go well with the tyro, for the tyro always succeeds...
...Texas. San Antonio's $2,000,000 Commercial National Bank had them in its portfolio. When San Antonio's citizens learned this they rushed for their deposits; the bank closed. Few days later the bank's former president, Z. D. Bonner, and Lawyer John J. Cunningham were clapped in jail for receiving and concealing stolen goods...