The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-12-31
CUNNINGHAM AND BONTHRON STARS
 OF 1884 TRACK
Four-Minute Mile Was Pointed FOr-TOrrance
 Great Athlete
BY JACK CUDDY

Limited Press Stan COTfeSpOMueHaJ t' New York -- CUP) = Pursuit of the dream four-minute mile featured track and field competi- ton during 1884, banner year in which American athletes cracked 13 world records at home and abroad.
 Meanwhile the United States ac- cepted Germany's invitation to participate in the 1936 Olympic games, after prolonged debate, and Jeremiah T. Mahoney of New York was elected president of the Amateur Athletic Union, succeed ing the six-year proxy Avery Brundage of Chicago.
 Glenn Cunningham of Kansas and Bill Bonthron of Princeton staged an historic series of five duels over the mile and 1,500 meter distances, indoors and on the cinders. They gave track fans the greatest thrills in years, left four new world records in their wake and brought the universal mile standard back to the United ! States for the first time since Paavo Nurmi took it to Finland in 1924.
 Matching strides twice indoors before capacity crowds at Madison | Square Garden, Bonthron wof their first meeting in the Baxter Mile in AHA, but Cunningham came back in the National A. A. U. indoor 1,500-meters to beat the l Princeton powerhouse with new indoor world time of 3:52.2. Short l ly after that, with Bonthron not entered in the race, CunninghaEi set a new indoor mark of 4:0S.4 for the mile.
 Bonthron Won Three of Five r. | In the summer they shifted | their feud outdoors. Cunningham far outdistanced Bonthron in the latter's own Princeton Stadium and registered the amazing new world record of 4:O6.7 for the out : door mile. Two weeks later the Princetonian showed his heels to the Kansas Flyer at Los Angeles. Bonthron winning the N c. c. A. mile title in 4.08.9. The climax of their rivalry came at Milwaukee week later in the National A. A. U a championships when Bonthron nosed out Cunningham by two feet and established new world outdoor 1,500-meter record of I S:4S.S. This gave the Princetonian three triumphs in their five meet- ings.
 | Meanwhile other American reci ord breakers were busy. On the same day and on the same track where Cunningham established the outdoor mile mark, Blazing Ben Eastman, Stanford university graduate student, shattered the world half-mile time with 1:49.8. Later Eastman turned in two more world records during competition in Sweden: .1:02 for the 500 meters and 1:4S.4 for 800 meters.
 New world marks were register ed also in high jumping, shotput- ting, hurdling and sprinting. Wal ter Marty, of Fresno, (CaL) State Ieacners college, using the west ern roll in high Jumping, hung up a new indoor world figure of ft. SA in. at Madison Square Gar den, and later leaped it. Is in. outdoors to break Hal Os- born's eight-year- universal record.
 1 New ShOtput Record
 Jack Torrance's feats in shot putting were particularly brilliant. This 29O-pound giant from Louisi- ana State battered back the world mark with the 16-pound shot from Leo Sexton's 53 feet 1-2 inch to the final new distance of 57 feet 7-S2 inches. Percy Beard. Alabama's fleet professor, came out of retirement to win the na- tional high hurdles, then he went to Sweden and established a new world time of 14.2 seconds for the llO-meter outdoor high hurdles. Glenn Hardin, of Louisiana State. registered new world mark of l O:56.6 for the 400-meter hurdles.
 Ralph Metcale of Marquette. continued as America's premier sprinter and probably the worlds best for the third successive wear sweeping virtually all U. S. titles On tour in the Orient. he was clocked over the 200 meters in Ja- pan in the amizing time of 20. seconds. This new record has not been approved yet by the Interna- tional Federation.
 During the summer and autumn the largest number of American athletes ever to invade foreign
 
 countries, outside of an Olympic year, toured Germany, Sweden and Japan. A 14-man team went to Japan; eight athletes to Swe den, and five to Germany. Their showings against froeign athletes indicated brighter prospects than ever for the American team at the 1886 Olympics.
 or performances turned in by foreign Athletes during the year. three stand out as the best. Henry Nielsen of Denmark, registered a new world time of S:1S.4 for the 5000 meters; Aiatti Jarvinen of Finland, threw the javelin to a new world distance of 251 feet. ' inches. and Harald Anderson of sweden. hurled the discus a new universal distance of 172 feet, 1-2