Evening star., 1935-02-03
BEATS OLD MARK
BY $40 SECOND
Hoosier Does 11.3 to Score
Victory-Cunningham
Is Mile Winner.
BY ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press Sports Editor.

n YEW YORK, Fepruary LAX
M ing the spotlight from Glenn
Cunninghams l mile triumph
over Gene Venzke and Bill
Bonthron tonight in the Millrose
A. A. track and field carnival, Charles
Hornbostel of Indiana University
raced to world record victory in the
classic Millrose 60O-yard event in his
second conquest of the meet.
Hornbostel's time of l minute II 8
second wiped out the l0-year-old mark
of / minute 116 seconds made by
Alan Helffrich.
Hornbostel, the lanky. bespectacled
runner who holds the intercollegiate
half-mile title. performed a spectacu-
lar Iron man" stunt by registering his
record triumph little more than an
hour after whipping a strong field in
the 1,000-yard run in minutes 13
seconds, within a second of the world
indoor mark. He was a bad last, of
the marks, in a field of four starters
IN the Millrose 800" but uncorked a
dazzling sprint to overhaul his Indiana
rival, Ivan Fuqua, and Milton Sand
Ter Of New York. 1884 winner of the
event, on the last lap.
Wins by Dozen Yards.
TUQUA and Sander ran each other
ragged in a pace-Setting duel
most of the way and neither was
a match for the long-String Horn
bostel who broke the tape a dozen
yards in front of James Elliott Of
Villanova, with the faltering Fuqua
third and Sander bad fourth.
Hornbostel's time, while eclipsing
Helffrich's 1925 indoor mark, was short
of the world outdoor record of 1902,
held by Ben Eastman, former STAN
ford star and the only American to
beat Hornbostel at the latter's favor
ite middle distances in the past sew
eral seasons.
The overflow crowd of $4,000 gave
Hornbostel a terrific ovation for his
victory and astonishing double"
which outshone the nights highly
heralded feature-the Wanamaker
mile-in which Cunningham unex-
pectedly was challenged by Pennsyl-
vania's Gene Venzke instead of Bill
Bonthron. Cunningham, passed by
VenZke with lap to go after beating
of the tiring Bonthron, came on with
characteristic rush to win by half
dozen yards in All, which set a new
mark for the Wanamaker mile, al
though short of the Kansan's own
world indoor record of 4:084
Hornbostel's double triumph was
the most notable foot-racing achieve
ment of its kind since the night the
renowned Paavo Nurmi made his
American debut in 1925 by winning
two races, the first at mile and the
second at 5000 meters, setting world
records in each. Away back in 1912
Abel Kiviat won two equivalent races,
at 600 and 1000 yards, in the national
indor championships.
Gains Wanamaker Trophy.
THE Hoosier's twin victory assured
/ him the Rodman Wanamaker
International Trophy for the
outstanding all-around performance
for the second straight year.
Cornelius Johnson, Negro high
jumping star from Compton Junior
College, California, failed by a thin
margin in an attempt to clear 6 feet
9 inches for new indoor record. He
had to be content with winning the
event, beating George Spitz of the
New York A. c.. among others, by
clearing feet ia inches.
~ t1ar Il
tacks on indoor marks, although Keith
Brown, Yale's pole -vaulting ace, ex-
hibited brilliant form in clearing IA
feet inch in his specially. and Jesse
Owens, Ohio State sophomore, came
within tenth of second of equaling
the record for the 60-yard dash, which
he won in 63 seconds.
The crack Holy Cross 1-mile relay
quartet in the seventh and last of a
series Of college races, hung up the
fastest time of the meet, 3:23.7, and
thereby captured the John G. Ander-
son Memorial Cup. Indiana, feeling
the loss of Fuqua and Hornbostel, who
helped win this trophy for the Hoo
siers last Winter, finished fourth and
last in the race won by Holy Cross.
CLENN CUNNINGHAM, great Kan
II sas miller, raced to victory to-
night in the Wanamaker mile,
struggle which saw him extended by
Gene Venzke of Pennsylvania, instead
of Bill Bonthron of the New York
A. c., in an exciting finish.
Cunningham beat Venzke by, six
yards in minutes II seconds, with
Bonthron 20 yards farther behind.
Bonthron, making his first start of
the indoor season, was literally run
into the boards by Cunningham's con-
sistently fast pace The former
Princeton captain who has waged q
spectacular rivalry with the barrel
chested Kansan, faltered badly on
the last lap after sticking to Glenn's
heels for nearly 10 full laps.
Venzke rallied to thrill the overflow
crowd of 10000 in Madison Square
Garden, and make his greatest bid
for a mile triumph over his foremost
rivals in two years.