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...annual Knights of Columbus games in Manhattan last week, the world's greatest miler, Glenn Cunningham, crouched on the same starting line with the year's flashiest middle-distance man, swiftfooted Negro John Borican. The distance was 1,000 yards, for which Elroy Robinson set the world's outdoor record of 2 min. 9.7 sec. in 1937. Veteran Starter Johnny McHugh, who has been sending track men off the mark for over 30 years, after two false starts raised his shiny little pistol and fired. They were away...
...Miler Glenn Cunningham: his first big two mile race, beating Indoor Record Holder Don Lash in 9:11.8; an invitation event at the Intercollegiate A.A.A.A. meet in Manhattan. I.C. 4-A winner among 28 Eastern colleges: Manhattan College...
...many stitches have been bothering Gene Clark, who now ranks as Harvard's best miler. Cross Country will help his mile running, and he should come through down at Princeton Friday. Of all the members of the team, his nice form and easy running are perhaps the pleasantest to watch. Eddie Childs and Cliff Stevens are both half-milers, and like Clark, Simboli and Tuttle are Juniors. They will be on the team of ten heading for Tigertown, as will their classmate Dick Wing, who, like Simboli, has never run before, but who followed his roommate Gene Clark down...
Greenhood, swimming captain and star diver, has chosen a squad of six men to assist him: Gene Clark '40, miler; Lopey Forbush '39, diver; Dick Grondahl '39, infielder; Jim Lightbody '40, ace quarter-miler; Charlie Lutz '40, basketeer, and Joe Patrick, hockey player. All have won their major H's, and therefore qualify for cheerleading posts...
...slouch as a human being, either physically or mentally, is Fellow James LuValle, a graduate assistant in chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who is working for a Ph.D., will use his fellowship for research in physical chemistry. A crack quarter-miler and former captain of the University of California at Los Angeles track team, Scholar-Athlete LuValle represented the U. S. in the 1936 Olympics...