Imperial Valley press., 1937-02-07
SPORTS
PARADE
By Henry McLemore
BY HENRY SUPER

Pinch hitting for Henry McLemore
NEW YORK. Feb. 6. W.e)-That
ancient melodrama of the boards
Cunningham and venzke-plays an
other return engagement at Madi-
son Square Garden tonight. The
act has been renewed so many
winters that it seems these mahouts
OF the mile have been at it ever
since the days of crystal set radios
and ModelT Fords.
No one knows how they stand in
victories because researchers. thumb
inc through the earlier records. find
them yellowed and unreadable with
age. But even though this ''feud"
threatens to keep on longer than
that of the Hatfields and McCoys
dhcv were reckless mountain boys.
Is 600 or more track and field ad-
diets will pay good dough to sec
them have it out again tonight,
aided. OF course, by a few new "bit
nlayerse TO make an extravaganza
out of the act.
The track and field bug holds
down a very close place position
behind the six-day bike beetle when
II comes to dizziness. Week after
week, in February and March, they
flock to the Garden in great num-
hers 10 see these "steel-muscled,
Timber limbed" hurdlers, jumpers
and runners make infinitesimal as
saults ON time and space.
Announcement that some guy
wearing nothing but a moth-eaten
shirt and pair of blue under
drawers has clipped tenth of
second from the world record for
900 yards around turn with a
following wind provokes waves of
applause. And when it's announced
that some hair-chested brute has
thrown sixteen pounds of lead a
sixteenth OF an inch further than
any ether man. without the aid of
catapult or cannon, the galleries
boxes and infield rock with thun-
dcring hurrahs.
can understand such enthusiasm
when The favorite comes home at
Santa Anita because the excited
cnes usually have couple bobs
planted on the nose. And it's ex-
n,ainable when Di Maggie poles one
oyer the fence in the tenth inning
because that's sheer emotioal sport
drama
But an indoor track meet has
none of these heart-stopping thrills
for this observer. It's the same
gang. with a new face now and
then. year in and year out. The
spectacle OF a high-jumper going
over at 6 feet. 1916 inches is the
came as when he goes over at 8
feet. 8 3l-32-which would be a
world indoor record For I defy
YOU TO sit in the gallery and point
out to me the difference between
<these two heights. Or, after Cum
bingham whips Venzke in the mile,
Nj wish YOU could tell me that the
,porld record has been shattered by
"a tenth of second so / can get
down in the lobby before the boys
start waving their arms and throw
inr their hats in the air i'll salute
70 the mighty feat.
Last year the team put on very
sour one-but that's forgotten and
the act is back to five star rating
II seems that Gene, Glenn and Joe
Mangan had left them gasping all
year. So for the final battle OF
the season, the three were billed
in a mile of the century With
ali these high class competition
romping around, there were no
stooges in the race TO set the pace
for the stars. Mangan got the pole
nut he couldn't get rid of 1t Tor
ttght laps. He slowed down TO
walk which in track language
means: .'Come on up and overhaul
me-
But Cunningham and Venzke'
who were running ear to ssrs would
have no part of the lead. They put
on very fine Alphonse and CASTOR
act when it came to. At4ping out
there. Finally. Cunningham step
ped out two laps from .home and
won the cup that goes with the
race. The time wasn't even close
10 the world record of 4:0S.4.
II was 4:468, which is pretty slow
even for. a muddy track negotiated
in pair of galoushes with full
solcs.
tCopyright. 1887. by United Press