Evening star., 1934-02-28
MILE ACES RACE
ATOP SPORT BILL
Public Interest in Event
Great-0nIy Bare Chance
1t Will Be Held.
BY LAWRENCE PERRY.

n IEW YORK, February 28.-
nj 1t Is an interesting COM
" mentary upon the hold
which indoor track has
upon the public mind that a
match race between Bill Bon
thron and Glenn Cunningham
would pack the Madison Square
Garden at prices far above any
ever charged for a track meet
and that, if the two were TO
encounter each other outdoors,
any stadium in the land would
be filled to capacity.
Bonthron versus Cunningham in
mile race! What branch of sport,
professional or amateur, could pro-
duce a more potent drawing card?
Pugilism has Camera and Baer to
offer. That would draw beyond any
doubt But it is the only box fight
that would match the sensational in
terest of a race between the Prince
tonian and the Kansan.
In wrestling Londos and Brown
wouldn't compare with the foot race
attraction, and, in tennis, Tilden and
| Cochet or Cochet and Vines would
run second, as in fact they already
have.
A speed skate race between Ivar
Ballingrud and Jimmy Weaver would
| not pull as well as the two milers
and, indeed. the further you go into
sport the clearer it is that Baer and
Camera are the only two athletes in
the world who could make the turn
stiles whirl as rapidly and continu-
ously as Glenn and Bonny.
Bare Chance of Meeting.
VYIILL the two ever meet again?
w There is Just an outside
chance. If efforts fail to
bring them together at the annual
knights of Columbus meet at the
Madison Square Garden on March II,
it is possible the two flyers may come
together in special match race, OPP
portunity for which could be pro-
vided by special arrangement at the
Penn relays in April.
Or, again, the National A. A. q.
outdoor championships at Milwaukee
are another possibility. These would
be held a week before Bonthron sails
for England with the Princeton Cor
nell track team and so might appeal
to him as a final workout before leav-
ing this country. Still, again, the
geographical location would be con-
venient for Cunningham.
| Efforts Of Messrs. Brennan and
Downing, directors Of the K. OF G.
affair, are now being energetically di-
| rected toward the entirely worthy
project of interesting the Princeton
4 n1yrre q
| thrilling feature Of this meet.
Cunningham already is entered, but
Bonthron has not planned to COM
pete and the chances seem to be that
even the milesian eloquence and
honey-tongued persuasiveness OF the
K. of c. directors will not induce him
to run.
Whether he would be more recep-
tive to proposals to match him
against the Kansan in an outdoof
meet is equally doubtful, the pIob-
abilities being that when Bonry has
| completed his one remaining indoor
engagement, the I. G. A. A. A. A.
games-in which Cunningham Is not
eligible to compete-and participated
in outdoor meets arranged by his
university, he will hang up his spiked
shoes for good and all.
Running Pains BOnthron.
~LOSE observers of Bonthron are
convinced that every race he
runs is negotiated at the price
Of excruciating physical pain.
As with Cunningham, Bonthron was
badly burned about the legs in boy
hood. the scars, as also with Cunning
ham being plainly apparent. But in
the Princeton runners case he does
not perspire through the SCARED areas
/ of skin, and this it is, according to
! theory, that causes the Furnishing
after effects of exercise.
Assuming Bonthron and Cunning
ham were to meet again, which
would win? Qualified judges Of run
ming form incline toward the Prince
tonian. They believe he would beat
Cunningham in any match race over
$500 meters or a mile because Of his
unequaled ability to summon blind.
! ing flashes Of speed in a contest.