Evening star., 1938-07-04
GLENN IN HANDFUL
TO RETAIN TITLES
'0ld Man River of Cinders
Finds Rivals Slowly
CroWding Him.
Bv ALAN GOULD,
Associated Press SporCs Writer

BUFFALO. N. Y. July 4.-Only a
handful of the old reliables remained
today on the National A. A. U. track
and field championship list, following
the Golden Jubilee meet in Buffalo's
new $4,000 600 civic stadium. but they
included the athletic worlds old
Man River himself, Glenn Cum
ningham
After capturing the classic 1900
meters or metric mile" for the fourth
straight year and the fifth time in
six seasons, by only l-foot margin
over Wisconsin's Chuck Fenske, Cum
ningham remarked: 1T looks as If.
one bv one, they're beginning to
catch up with me. I don't know how
much longer III be able to give 'em
a run"
Cunningham looked a bit drawn
at the end of one of his busiest
campaigns - proba bly, his greatest
campaign. taking into account his in
door performances. including a world
record 4:044 mile at Dartmouth.
His time for the metric mile, 3:522,
on new track with gusty wind
adding to difficulties. wasn't impress
sive. But the old masters staying
powers were sufficient to turn back
the brilliant bid of his youthful rival
Fenske. with Archie San Romani and
Louis Zamperini also beaten off.
Glenn Declines Voyage.
For business as well as family rea-
sons Cunningham declined an invita-
ton to join the American forces this
month for meets in England and
Sweden. followed by a dual competi-
ton with Germany, August 1914. in
the Olympic Stadium at Berlin The
American mile king passed up the
chance to match strides with Britains
Sydney Wooderson, who has dis
placed Cunningham's best outdoor
mile performance with 1904 world
record.
In Cunningham's place, for this as
signment. will be Fenske. The Wis
consin star agreed to do triple duty
with the touring forces. He will go
first to Sweden. fiy to England for a
mile race with Wooderson and an ap-
pearance in half-mile. and then Join
the combined team of 40 athletes
picked to compete in Berlin. San
Romani and Zamperini, like the
champion, passed up invitations to
compete abroad
Foremost among the newly crowned
national senior champions - there
were II new titleholders, all told,
IN % events-was Rice Institutes
hurdling sensation, Fred Wolcott.
This sophomore newcomer, more
compectly built than the record
holding Spec" Towns and possessed
OF tremendous speed between the
barriers, flashed to victory in both
the ITO and 200 meters h6f dies. His
times, l43 and. 236, respectively,
were among the best in a meet that
produced only one record performance.
Wolcott also was the only double
winner and combined with his team
mate, Jack Patterson. repeating cham
pion in the 400 meters hurdles, to give
Rice sweep of the timber topping
honors.
College stars. on the whole, cut
themselves much bigger slice of
the senior championship honors than
usual. Notable among them were
HOWE Borck, the versatile Manhat-
tan College runner who won the
20 meters in the sparkling time of
1:51.5: Ben Johnson, Columbia CAP
tain, and Mack Robinson of Oregon,
Vlctors in the 100 and 200 meters
dashes. respectively: Greg Rice, stocky
Notre Dame distance runner, whose
terrific finish carried him to the tape
f1rst in the 5000 meters, and STAN
lords Ray Malott, who breezed to
4OO-meter victory in 476 seconds.
Hank Cieman of the Achilles Club
Toronto. contributed the only record
when he won the 300O-meter walk in
1888 for new American mark. The
veteran Joe McCluskey won the 5000
meter steeplechase for the sixth time
in nine years, but failed later to place
IN defending the 5,O0O-meter title.
Folwartshny Keeps Title.
The field events featured the title
defending hammer throw of 179 feet
inches. best in "a years. by Rhode
Islands Irving F'olwartshny. Cornell
lius Warmerdam of San Francisco's
Olympic Club beat his West Coast
rivals by clearing IA feet 51a inches in
the pole vault, but failed in attempts
to clear 14-9 for new meet mark.
Mel Walker and Dave Albritton, Ohio
State teammates, both cleared feet
inches in the high jump but the
title changed hands as Walker, due to
fewer misses, was declared the victor
The New York Athletic Club COM
pleted sweep of team honors. Wear
ers OF the famous winged foot after
taking the junior title meet Saturday.
mopped up in the senior champion
ships with 81 points, as compared
with only 2612 for the Olympic Club,
1887 winner The N. Y. A. c. won
five events yesterday, including both
relays. All told, Metropolitan New
York standard bearers made their best
showing in years, capturing of the
% senior events.