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Between them the two meets produced only one world's record. Last summer, at the U. S. v. British Empire Games in London, the four most famed milers on the U.S. Olympic most team- famed Chuck milers on Hornbostel, the Gene Venzke, Archie San Romani and Glenn Cunningham-ran a four-mile relay in the sensational time...
...metre run, with Glenn Cunningham, 1936 Olympic runner-up and Luigi Beccali. 1932 Olympic champion, heading a crack field. A mysterious ailment, described by its victim as "like tonsillitis except that I haven't any tonsils." kept Cunningham on the sidelines. His Kansas confrere, Archie San Romani, music student at Kansas State Teachers College, won the race from Beccali by a foot, with Pennsylvania's Gene Venzke third...
...easy for Lovelock to set a new world's record. When the race was over, Lovelock had not only failed to set a new record, but he had also failed to win. A brave spurt at the finish left him five yards behind Kansas' Archie San Romani, whose excellent but non-record-breaking time was 4:09. Glenn Cunningham of Kansas, whom Lovelock last month rated the best in the world, finished third...
Like two other famed U. S. milers, Bonthron and Cunningham, San Romani's running career was stimulated by a serious leg injury in his childhood. When he was six, a truck crushed his leg. Doctors considered amputation. A onetime coal miner, San Romani first came to notice last year, when he won the National Collegiate mile in California. Last summer he beat Bonthron and Venzke in the A. A. U. 1500-metre championship. Now 24, a senior at Kansas State Teachers...
Lovelock's time was 3:47.8, a new world's record by a round second. The next four finishers-Cunningham, Beccali, San Romani, Edwards-broke the Olympic record of 3:51.2. In his dressing room, Lovelock coolly admitted he had known that incorrect placing of the starting line had cheated him of three yards, had not considered it worth calling to the attention of officials. Asked why he had looked back and slowed down at the finish, he said: "I didn't hear anyone so I thought I had better have a peek. . .. They thought I could...