In four races this year, each had won two. When they crouched on the starting line at Milwaukee last week for the 1,500-meter run in the national Amateur Athletic Union championships, Bill Bonthron of Princeton and Glenn Cunningham of Kansas knew that their fifth race would decide a series that has made track history.
As usual in contests between Bonthron and Cunningham, they had for pacemaker, a miler who two years ago was considered the greatest ever developed in the U. S. Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania. As usual, they let Venzke lead for...
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