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Cornell will bring the team that will probably give Harvard the stiffest competition. The Big Red has an exceptional sprinter in sophomore Jim Ponder, while another second year man, John Nevius, is their outstanding quarter miler. Hamilton Hucker, 1935 IC4A and the present National A.A.U. low hurdles champion, is back to strongthen the team still further...
ELLIOT NUGENT was a fairly serious Ohio State University during the days Great War, but he was also a quarter miler, cut in on studying. James Grover Thurber, was a complete grind opposed to judging by the hours he spent in the library State and by the long hair he always wore before his eyes. Nugent and Thurber met to their mutual benefit. James went out more frequently; Elliot came indoors to begin in the Ohio State...
...strongest point winners is expected to be Emile Dubiel, if and when he can compete. Al Northrop, a great miler, is in the same capacity, but both are expected to be eligible after the exam period...
...metre steeplechase, the 5,000 and the 10,000-metre runs. With U. S. victories in the sprints and intermediate runs, outside competition centred, as usual, on the 1,500-metre race. Among 39 entrants, eight were outstanding. New Zealand had Jack Lovelock, onetime world-record miler. England had Stanley Wooderson, who had beaten Lovelock three consecutive times this year. Italy had Luigi Beccali, winner at Los Angeles in 1932. The U. S. had Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani and Glenn Cunningham, all three good enough to beat Bill Bonthron, who held the world's record...
No.1 track thrill for the 18,000 spectators was furnished by Kansan Glenn Cunningham. Apparently rejuvenated, after a disappointing indoor season, Miler Cunningham in a special race cagily let two capable competitors set the pace, unleashed a terrific spurt at the finish to set a new U. S. outdoor record...