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When the three best mile-runners in the U. S.-Bonthron of Princeton, Cunningham of Kansas and Venzke of Pennsylvania-raced for the first time, last fortnight, Bonthron won by three inches. It was a comparatively slow race (4:14.1) because each of the three wanted the others to set the pace at the start. Last week Bonthron, Cunningham and Venzke raced again, this time at 1,500 metres, in the indoor championships of the Amateur Athletic Union in Manhattan...
...years ago Gene Venzke, who used to train for races by running to his job in a Pottstown, Pa. mill, became the first human to cover a mile on foot indoors in 4 min., 10 sec. Last year Glenn Cunningham of Kansas University, who took up running after his legs had been so badly burned in a schoolhouse fire that he was never expected to walk again, beat Venzke. Last summer Venzke and Cunningham were joined by Bill Bonthron of Princeton, who finished second to Jack Lovelock of Oxford in the fastest' mile on record. Lovelock's time...
There were two other men in the race - Dawson of Tulsa A. C. and Crowley of Manhattan College. The crowd became aware of them for the first time when Bonthron, Cunningham and Venzke made it clear at the start that they were in no hurry. A 66-sec. first quarter, a 2.13 half, put the record out of danger just before Cunningham flashed out ahead of the field with Bonthron at his heels. Venzke joined them after a lap and the three ran five times around the track, each lap faster than the last. When they rounded the last turn...
...University of Kansas' Glenn Cunningham; the one-mile run of the Millrose Athletic Club track meet in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, for the second time, after challenging and passing able Miler Gene Venzke of University of Pennsylvania...
...alumni committee appointed to find a new football coach. Five of the committee apparently favored hiring Kipke. The Tribune brought the name of Yale's famed Benefactor Edward S. Harkness into the controversy but failed to give his opinions on Coach Kipke. In Boston. Sports Columnist Bill Cunningham sagely decided that Coach Kipke would find Yale material feebler than that to which he had been accustomed at Michigan. The New Haven Journal-Courier revealed that one Ivan Williamson, Michigan end in 1932, had signed a contract to coach Yale's freshman team in 1934 to pave...