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...four races this year, each had won two. When they crouched on the starting line at Milwaukee last week for the 1,500-meter run in the national Amateur Athletic Union championships, Bill Bonthron of Princeton and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas knew that their fifth race would decide a series that has made track history...
...never one to predict whether I'll win nor can I forecast a record. I hear the track is fast and I'm glad of that." So said Glenn Cunningham, University of Kansas senior, as he arrived in Manhattan last week for Princeton's "perfect race." That race was to include three of the greatest milers of the day-Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke, Princeton's Bill Bonthron and Cunningham. The Kansan followed his custom of not bothering to practice. His legs, burned so badly when he was a child that doctors doubted if he would...
Admiral Reeves's wife has for years been invalided by asthma, is now living in Switzerland for her health. One son, Joseph Jr., is a capable California artist. The other, William Cunningham, was graduated from West Point last year, is an Army flyer...
...Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas miler, a 1,000-yd. run at Hamilton, Ont., setting a new Canadian record. Glenn Cunningham, a mile race at Indianapolis; from Ray Sears who fortnight before made a new American record for two miles...
...first five laps were fast but the race really started on the sixth when Cunningham pushed up into the lead. Venzke and then Bonthron followed him. With two laps to go, Venzke caught up with Cunningham and passed him. Half a lap before the end of the race, Cunningham repassed Venzke. Bonthron started his sprint coming around the last turn. He passed Venzke on the outside and started down the straightaway toward the tape, four yards behind Cunningham. Thirty yards from the tape, the gap began to melt. The finish duplicated the finish of the first race, except that...