The three most famed mile runners in the U. S. are Glenn Cunningham, who holds the world's indoor record of 4:08.4; Bill Bonthron, who last year beat Cunningham in three races out of five; Gene Venzke, who held the record three years ago, last season functioned as pacemaker for the other two.
In Manhattan last week, a crowd of 16,000 went to see Venzke, Bonthron and Cunningham renew their rivalry, found that Venzke had learned the trick of sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as...
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