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Only the three of u.s." Glenn re-
lates. land | didn't relish the idea of
running last in any race But l had
pulled muscle badly, and had my
right ankle tightly taped. / was
warming up anxiously, and in prancing
about the field stepped in hole and
turned my left ankle! Another ankle
taped up, and those were the only
ones | had for racing Venzke and Bon
thron. | heard both these runners tell
their coaches they were in top-notch
form and raring to go. Should l drop
out? talked it over with the coach.
lie told me to go in there and win.
Under such inspiration | decided
to point for the almost impossible -
4:O6 mile. | would set myself for
that pace, do the best I could and
leave the rest to fate And here may
answer another question frequently
asked me: Can you time yourself in
the races with anything approximating
accuracy?'
Il feel confident can time my races
to the fraction of a second. That takes
practice, of course, but it's something
to which coach should give a lot
of attention.
The gun cracked and we we're off.
Point for 4:O6! Point for 4:O6r kept
saying to myself.
''Venzke led at the first lap and
around the first curve. I felt he was
slowing my pace somewhat, so | led
out. l forgot my injured ankle and
ran. l never lost the lead. Bonthron
was second. The time was 4O6.7."
Glenn is true sportsman in his
attitude toward his rivals. He recalls:
ITO prove what fighter Bonthron
is, let me point out that he came back
two weeks later at the Milwaukee
A. A. u. meet. to overtake me in one
of the gamest rallies l have ever seen.
1t was the l500-meter race, and l was
fifteen yards ahead. At a hundred
yards from the finish Bonthron opened
up and began cutting me down. At ten
yards he was shoulder to shoulder
with me. The SPECTATORS gave him a
big hand when he hit the tape two
feet ahead of me, and he deserved it.
wasn't loafing in that race! Both of
us had broken all records for the 1900
meter race in that dash, and his time
was 3:48.8."
Glenn feels that any school, how
ever little the funds available for
equipment. can get together the mate
rial needed for track and field events.
why. numerous schools are max
ing the equipment in their manual
training departments. and that ought
to be encouraged. A good cinder track
can be constructed without great ex-
pense. At least a hundred yard
straight-away can be laid out. Of
course the schools with plenty of
equipment already provided don't
need these suggestions. But I want
smaller schools - even rural schools
- to enjoy track"
Thus. as Glenn Cunningham COM
pletes the spring outdoor season and
prepares to take over track respon-
sibilities in some one of the many
universities already bidding for his
services. he looks forward to helping
to increase the popularity of the sport
that has made him famous.
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King of the Mile
Magazine Section
Continued from page five

pack. Coach Narney refused to let me
run the mile again that year, for he
feared | would overstrain myself
Wise coach! I've won many races
since that day. and hung up a few
records But | owe lot to Coach
/ Varney for giving me the right start.
Some coaches would have let me run
! in every sort of race that season, with
results that would have been pretty
bad for me later on"
Glenn finished his high school in
three years, running several new
record races for distances from the half
mile to the mile. including the Inter
scholastic mile" for high school boys
at the Kansas Relays in the time of
4 minutes, 81 a seconds - mark that
still stands. Later that spring he won
the state interscholastic mile in 4:283,
and wound up the season by going to
Chicago and setting mile record in
the National Interscholastic Meet i'm
the fast time of 4:24.7. He was be
ginning to get the feel of the track
Cunningham enrolled at the Uni
versity of Kansas. where Coach
Brutus Hamilton was eagerly awaiting
his arrival. Hamilton taught him the
finer points of setting the pace and
timing his stride. The races Glenn won
during those four years at Kansas, and
the records hung up. make a list long
as your arm. Those four track seasons
we're crowded with a terrific schedule
of competition, but Glenn came
through smiling, confident and VIC
torious lie attended an average of
about fifteen meets each spring and
won an average of eight out of ten
races run. He set meet records, ma
tional and world records during each
term Of his collegiate career.
Just to get an idea of the fast and
continuous pace he set in track accom-
plishments, take look at his senior
year record of last spring. He ran in
twenty meets. In fourteen he did the
mile run. winning all but one. setting
six meet records or world records. in
Guiding the world indoor mile record of
4:O8.4 at Madison Square Garden. and
the outdoor world record for the mile
of 4:O6.7 at the Princeton Invitation
meet.
Track is a grand sport for calling
out the best the athlete has. and the
greater the handicaps the greater the
incentive to make good" Cunning
ham says.
And if you want an instance from
his own career to prove it, you might
take the race he ran at the Chicago
National intercollegiate in 1888. The
meet was moved from Stagg Field
over to Soldier Field to be part of
the Worlds Fair events. The track
was in terrible shape. and Glenn's
coach joined the gloomy group of
mentors muttering about it.
Glenn decided it would be a good
time to try for a record, just to show
them it could be done And he tore
around that rough track for a time of
4:O9.8, which set a new record.
Speaking of handicaps. consider
how Glenn won the fastest mile" yet
run by any human - the record set
at Princeton last June - made against
GIenn's two most worthy foes: Venzke
and Bonthron.
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#. MYER TAKES
SOLDIER TILT

Fort Myer basketers are nearing
the Third Corps Area floor cham
pionship every day. Last night
they downed a most stubborn Fort
Meade foe, "a to Is, in the Heurich
gymnasium, and by so doing they
gained the right to meet Fort
Monroe for the championship on
Friday.
This latter game is scheduled
in the Heurich gymnasium at 8
p. m. Fort Monroe is undefeated
in the tourney thus far, but an
interesting clash is expected, since
Fort Myer has come with a rush
in it's last few games.
Last night the team uncorked a
thrilling rally to defeat Fort
Meade. Trailing at the third quar-
ter, the Cavalrymen got down to
real business to score point after
point, with McGeever, Cans, Ryan
and Penn leading the way.
Vitkowski was the star for Fort
Meade. He scored five baskets
and a foul, for II points.
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a sickle in a field Of weeds.
Mize, awkward but fast, will do
at first base; in the first place,
because he hits, and the second
because he takes throws into the
runner very we'll. The other two
I don't know about.
At a guess, I'd say that Piet
probably will wind up on third
base and the rest Of the infield
will remain intact. For a lot of
sap ball players, they look pretty
good.
This means that Bottomley will
be traded and, by July /, the
club will be running fifteenth
in a field of eight. However, by
July /, Mr.. Dresser will be signed
to a contract for 1896. It's that
kind of a ball team. They're
building into the future, not the
present, and sooner or later
they're going to brush by a few
National League clubs that seem
determined to survive on the
basis Of the past.
Pitching Is Fair
AS they stand, the Reds have
fair pitching from Paul Derringer,
who won the amazing total of is
games for a last place club. 10
CONTINUED on Page 2S, Col. y
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Too, there are those veterans
whose fight experience spans
from Fitzsimmons to Baer, who
aver that even Ruby Bob's pile
driving wallops carried no more
steam than did those dynamic
Baer thrusts that spun Camera
around like a celluloid doll that
night last summer in the Long
Island bowl.
It's going to take an aggres-
sive, alert heavyweight to get
inside of Baer in order to de-
throne him. The cumbersome,
dogging types are nothing but
Slow-moving targets for the Cali
fornia Redwood, who has pol
ished off not only Carnera, but
q dozen equally sluggiSt exh1b1'
ton opponents, at will.
A Little Tragedy
Grim tragedy is stalking the
Boston Braves baseball team in
training at Waterfront Park, St.
Petersburg. BY which I mean
that the most intense study OF
the Red Men this year centers,
not so much around the rockies
who are customarily the cyno-
sure of all eyes, but more on
the symptoms of two old men
who, were it not for their re-
narkable pasts, would probably
be shelved long, long ago.
These, of course, are Babe
Ruth and Rabbit Maranville.
Both beyond 40, they are play
ing on velvet. They are working
on borrowed time, insofar as
baseball is concerned. Almost
with their backs to the wall. this
pair realizes they must beat out
younger men in order to retain
their places in the limeIght OF
the national past-time.
Quite the Opposite
Such a situation is quite the
antithesis Of what your ordl'
narily find in a spring squad.
Usually it is the youngsters who
are girding themselves to ease
their elders out of some regular
spot, but here we find age put
ting up a deathless struggle to
keep youth, vigor and ambition
sitting on the bench.
It all brings up the question
as to whether youth indeed shall
be served.
Over at Miller Higgins Me-
mortal Field, a few miles away
from the Boston comp, a sight
suggestive of the Braves set"
ting is also being enacted daily.
Those four so-called "dollar-a.
year-men" who have provisional
contracts only, Earl Combs,
Johnny Allen, Russell Van Alta
and Fred Walker are also fight
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ing a desperate cause. Combs
is staging a comeback from a
head-on collision with a fence
in st. Louis, Allen and Walker
are trying to revitalize arms
well-nigh useless last year and
Van Alta is experimenting with
q twisted wrist, cut by flying
glass last year when he was try
ing to rescue his dog during a
blaze at his home.
Chatter Of People
Art Godfrey, radio announcer,
is also an inveterate horseback
rider-hiS dobbin Judy" stands
Is hands. in her bare feet. =.
Columbia Lodge No. 174, Inter-
national Association of Machin"
lists, holds its first annual dance
at Sholl's, Connecticut Avenue
branch, Saturday. Morris Ca
fritz says Johnny Vaeth was
the greatest bowling alley man.
ager ever to hit Washington. =.
Mrs. Lois Utter, who won a sea.
son ticket in the "Play Ball"
film contest, was sick in bed
when she learned of her success
.. and the good news hurried
her recovery, said friend huS-
band. Income tax filing has
been the leading indoor sport
this week. Brooklyn was the
National League counterpart Of
Washington last season, suffer
ing no less than 80 injuries. E.
Despite the $4,000 which Patsy
Donovan just got for his auto
mobile injury in Jersey two sum-
mers ago, Patsy would rather
not have had the accident. ..
Benny Lads, who was awarded
$1,000 in the same suit, has not
yet gone on recrod.
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Majestics Open
Baseball Drills

Majestic A. c. baseballers hold
their initial drill Of the season
Sunday on the Phoenix diamond
at 2 p. m. The team opens its
schedule April IA against the st.
Mary's Celtics at Alexandria.
A bulky out-of.town schedule
will keep the Majestics busy dur.
ing the year with such games at
Lynchburg, Va, Front Royal,
Charlottesville, FIR d ricksburg,
Warsaw, West Point, Richmond,
ANNAPOLIS and other points.
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ter of the stage 10 days ago are
just a lot of homesick laddies
now. The regulars have come
in, and by their very assurance
overawed the kids.
But that doesn't go for Hol-
brook and Redmond. Those boys
are blown-in.the glass regulars,
with the swing and confidence
of veterans in every action.
The way that Holbrook cuts
into a ball would gladden. the
heart Of any manager. Looks
like a cinch for this year.
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EXHIBITION
BASEBALL

TODAY
Boston Red sox vs.. New York Giants,
at Miami Beach.
TOMORROW
Browns VS.. Red SOx at West Palm
Beach.
Miss.
YESTERDAY RESULTS
Boston Red Sox, I; New York
Giants, 5.
Philadelphia AS, I; st. Louis
Cards, 3.
New Orleans. 2; Cleveland, 1.
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I might add that on the bench
sits Jim Bottomly, once a great
first baseman; Tony Piet, sup
posedly a first-claSs infielder, and
Gordon Slade, a major league
Shortstop for five years. They're
going to stay on the bench.
'Tis Noble Experiment
At least, that's what Charley
Dresser, the Cincinnati manager,
said today in discussing his 1885
ball club. Thus, the noble ex-
pertinent Of all the ages, beside
which prohibition and the daily
double at the race track are
made to seem pale and insipid.
No major league club has ever
gone to bat with an all-freshman
infield before. No major league
club has ever committed itself
to a first baseman who has
played less than 80 games at
the position and who neverthe-
less cost the owner of this club
the rather sonorous sum of $685.
900, paid to the Rochester club.
And no major league club, not
even Connie Mack's Baker-Barry-
Collins combination, went on the
field with an infield averaging
less than % years and a COM
bined outlay of $125,oo0. Dresser
says:
"Win, lose, draw or no dice,
that's my infield. We couldn't
win with the veterans last year.
So what's the matter with
losing with the kids? We just
can't go any wrOnger than we
did, and, by 1886, I'll wake up
some fine morning with a ball
club"
PARTLY IMPRESSED
I looked at the fledgling in.
field today and was at least two
parts impressed. That Myers,
from the Columbus club, is very
likely to play 154 games of ball
this year and do all right by
himself, at that. He's quite a
young man out there, with an
arm that cuts them down like
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and no word from Walter John.
son, either. Griffith stands by
his final telegram to the south
paw, and that's all there is about
it for the present.
Arm in Condition
Whitehiu is the authority for
the statement that his arm is In
fine condition-that is, compare
lively. It ached like sore tooth
the other day, but now most OF
the soreness Is gone. A little bit
of sunlight will help to beat the
band.
The rockies WHO held the cen
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D O'NAHONEY SET
FOR GROBN|ER
TONIGHT

Danno O'Mahoney, exponent Of
the Irish Whip" from County
Cork, tonight makes his first ap-
pearance at the Washington Au-
ditorium when he duels rugged
Fred Grobmier in the three-fall
feature.
Prepared to crack his whip"
in fashion calculated to set Wash
ington's Irish representation wild,
Danno, nevertheless, faces a cagey
and dangerous opponent in Grob-
mier.
Amazingly aggressive and pow
erful despite his willowy build,
Fred also boasts a tarantulalike
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running and you can't deal out
Red Kress. Kress is working into
condition and looks like an i'm
proved ball player.
Monte Weaver has departed
from the vegetarian diet to which
he confined himself last year. He
reported no i'll effects from his
adventures in meat eating, but
is not prepared to say that he
feels any better for the change.
Day by day Joe Kuhel is gain
ing more confidence in his leg.
The injured prop hasn't even
caused him q doubt so far and he
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has put pretty severe strain on
it, working as hard as he does.
The baseball party received a
freezer of ice cream at dinner
last night. and for while it
seemed as if the rockies would
clap their hands.
Leon Petit had a lot of fun
with the regular hitterS yesterday
He threw them a variety Of slow
curves and screw balls that had
the boys swinging as if to break
their backs. Looks like tough
competition for some one.
No word from Walter Stewart
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strong team
for wears and is also a member
of the Eastern intercollegiate
Golf League. Also, this year
Georgetown will sponsor the ma
tional intercollegiate champion
ships at Congressional Country
Club, an event that promises to
be the years golf highlight here.
Prep Schools Well Organized
True, local and nearby prep
schools are well organized in golf
and are far ahead Of the public
schools in this respect. The pup
lie schools also compete annually
for the Dawes Cup, but interest IS
not sustained.
AL Treder, Manor Club pro, que
to be installed as president OF
the Middle Atlantic P. G. A.
Monday, intends to push a cam
D aign for increased interest
among the schoolboyS. For years
the pros have recognized that to
develop better golfers it was nee
essary to take them in hand at
schoolboy age, and not when
muscles had been stiffened With
the advancing years.
Might Offer Services
Of course, practically every
local college holds intramural golf
tournaments but many OF the
players competing are the verieSt
dubs. Maybe the pros might offer
their services as coaches, provld-
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Boys Club Fives
Await Tourney

Boys Club fives today were
marking time for the opening
of the Boys Club Associations
basketball tournament next Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday at
the George Washington and
Washington Boys Club gym
Teams in the IS, 100, lis, 100
and unlimited classes will COM
pete. Medals will go to the win
ming fiYeS.
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arm. The left-hander waxed over
ambitious, Martin thought. Where.
fore a few thousand well chosen
words.
Cecil Travis had a sizzling
workout at third base fielding
bunts. The kid tore in and
snapped the ball UP with one
hand. getting off his throws in
spectacular style. He seems to
be moving at a nice pace this
season.
There's a fine three-cornered
fight on for tn shortstop berth.
Bluege Is very much in the
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
AncientPinman
Misses 400
ByOne Pin

Joe Hardie, who was one Of
Washington's top-notch ten-pin
stars when gran'ma was a
young lady, almost realized a
long-standing duckpin ambi-
tion when he rolled a 399 set
in the Temple Major League
last night. He was sadly dis
appointed.
Joe missed his coveted 400"
when after getting a split in the
last frame of his last game he
was able to only gather in
eight naples. His games were
131, 1874 and 1874. His highest
previous set was 387, rolled two
years ago.
Incidentally Joe had nine
straight marks last night,
chalking up spares in the last
four boxes of his first game
and following it up with spares
in the first five frames of his
second game.
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Nv FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
nNu..nn SAaRR WrffAr

Times Staff Writer
BILOXI, Miss, March 14.-The
first game of the practice season
will be played tomorrow here with
two of the rookie pitchers hurting
against their teammates.
Harry Cappola, the Baltimore
boy who outpitched Dizzy Dean in
an exhibition game last year will
be loaned to the Albany team, as
will Orville ArnbruSt, who looks
like tired business man south on
a trip of rest and recuperation.
MikehGartin hustled around tell
ing Earl Whitehill not to hurt his
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city, where the
faculties are
Indifferent to
the games ad-
v a n c e m e n t.
Y e t, o n ! y
Geo rg e t o W n
u niv erSit Y
a m on tn e
higher inStitu-
tions of learn
ing h e r e
S t r e S S e S the
S por t. IT. h e
Hilltop school
has been rep
resented by a
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blush I should be Inclined 70 PICK baeT 10
chop hell out of the plodding, on-coming
German.
In fact, the more size up the two
mentally, the greater is my tendency to
believe that schmeling is just about made
to order for the bronzed Adonis of Liver
more.
The majority of schmeling's victories in
this country, you may remember, were
achieved only after the Dutchman had
taken something of a pummelling himself.
His stribling figh is the exception. He had
to take plenty in most Of his decision scraps
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why he should
be excited over
the boys meet.
ing Albany here
t o m o rr ow i.
but here he is,
s n o r t i n g
defiance to the
world.
Griff dis
counts the Yam
KEGS at the first
move. Having
done that, he
opin e S t h a t
Detroit can't go
thr0uQh an
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BY DAVIS J. WALSH

TAMPA, Flar March 14-on first base is John Robert
ze % years DID, and built the general lines of caribou
and what the taors call stylish stout On second base is
gentleman named Alex Kampours also o. At shortstop
is Bill Myers aged and at third Lew Riggs aged %
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College Golfers Need
Encouragement Of
Professionals
BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON

When the Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers Association
for its annual meeting at the Indian Spring Coun
try Club Monday the members might carefully weigh
suggestion that they also strive greater golf
thusiasm in the colleges besides the high schools
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nounced the Griffmen of '35 as
the pennant threat of the Ameri-
can League.
Perhaps this is just another case
OF the old fire horse shifting
smoke or the cavalry charger hear.
ing gunfire. There's no good reason
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CRITICS are unable to split hairs over
the fielding of Lyn Larry, new Griff shortsop,
and that of Joe Cronin, whose place he takes,
but Larry is not yet supposed to be the hitter
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that was Joe. However, Biloxi pictures show
Larry can take powerful swipe at the ball.
Sam Holbrook is catching. Avener Beals,
Times Staff Photographer.
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Cincinnati Reds Trying
Young Infield, Vets
Warming Bench

Editors Note-This is the fifth of series of articles
by Davs j. Walsh dealing aOith the vaious major league
clubs IN spring training, etc.,
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and the question arises to how much OF Baer ne can take
and still remain perpendicular.
Baer is the hardest hitter since Dempsey There are
those whose memory goes farther back than mine who say
Baer hits harder than Dempsey did when Jack first came
The Washington times., 1935-03-14

Admittedly, high school golfers
require the most support, espe-
cially the public schools in this
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Toniight's S Mat
Program

MAIN EVENT (two out Of three
falls)-Fred Grobmier VS.. Dan
O'Mahoney.
SPECIAL EVENT Zone fall to
finish)-Tor Johanson VS.. George
Zaharias.
COMMUTE BOUTS-Rudy Du'
SEX VS.. Abe Goldberg: Andy
Rascher VS.. John Katan.
Japanese Frog Scissors" that has
figured in many an upset here.
In a special one-fall finish,
George Zaharias ties up with
315-pound Tor JohanSon.
Abe Goldberg declares war on
Rudy Dusek and Andy Rascher
engages John Katan in Commute
numbers.
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ing such added tasks wouldn't con.
flict with their club duties. The
pro would surely benefit in the
long run,
The Washington times., 1935-03-14
TardugnO to Box
At Auditorium

Another promising boxing bout
today was named in support Of
the Pete DeGraSse-Frankie VOL
fran feature at the Washington
Auditorium Monday night when
Mike Tardugno, former George
town University ring captain, was
paired off with Wesley Martin.
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Baer Figures Better
Than Schmehng In
Summer Fight
Bv KIRK MILLER
Times Sports Editor

While it may be bit early to 60 far out on limb
IN the matter of Max schmeling and Max Baer if and
when they during the approaching summer at first
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JOE D. SINGER
THE OTHER season ticket
winner in The Times Play
Ball sound movie contest.
Joe's letter was on a par
with Mrs. Lois M. Utter's,
and therefore was awarded
first prize along with Mrs.
Utter. Times Staff Photo.
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MERCHANTS WANT FOE

Silver Spring Merchants have
the use of a gym and would list
any unlimited foe. Call Shepherd
35O6-R between 6 and 7 p. m.
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GriH Sees
Club
Threat
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Times Staff Writer

3 I l. Q K I, MISS, March II.
On the eve of the first exhibition
game, Clark Griffith today an.