Evening star., 1940-03-02
Swift|y-Moving Show
Dotted With Famed
Names Of Track
Maxi Mile, Abbey Sprint
And Rector's 1000
Featured Events

The stars will be out tonight at
Brookland where Glenn Cunning
ham, one Of the greatest trackmen
in history, and a brilliant supporting
cast are scheduled to lift EN- up
and put 'em down in the seventh
annual renewal of the Catholic Uni
versity Games.
Staged for the benefit Of the Fin
nish Relief Fund, which will receive
every penny Of the profit, the games
are slated to get under way promptly
at 7:30. From that time until well
after II o'clock the rambling Brook
land coliseum will resound to the
drumming feet Of athletes.
The program has been so arranged
that there will be no delay between
events. The fields will be ready to
leave their marks as soon as the re-
suits Of the previous race have been
announced. To speed up the pro-
gram trials and semi-flnals in the
scholastic 45-yard high hurdles and
50-yard dash were to be run of this
afternoon.
This is one Of the largest and
finest collections of track stars ever
assembled in Washington. Clustered
around Cunningham in the Maxi
Mile" are Gene Venzke, his most
persistent rival; Archie San Romani,
Luigi Beccali, former Olympic 1900
meter champion; Joe McCluskey, the
distance runner who has given Old
Man Time fancy trimming, and
Mason Chronister, baby of the field.
Cunningham made the fastest time
ever recorded in a mile run, 4:04.4.
The mark never has been ap-
preached since hung up a couple
OF years ago at Dartmouth, but the
opposition has begun to creep up on
Glenn. In general he is running
as we'll as ever, apparently, for two
OF his races this winter were under
400. But Venzke, too, has been
under 400 a couple Of times 80 it
seems that Cunningham isn't weak
en1ng, but rather, the opposition Is
improving.
Tonight's race probably will pro-
duce the fastest indoor mile ever
run in this sector. It's wide open
affair on the Cardinals 12-lap
track and doping the winner is next
to impossible. Cunningham will be
the favorite, of course, but in the
scramble and jockeying for posi-
tions, the straightaway> sprints, any,
thing can happen and Venzke, San
Romani or one of the others may
slip under the wire first. Dark
horse of the affair is Maryland's S
Chronister, whose 4:12.5 time in the
Southern Conference games last
week is sufficient evidence he is
ready for the best race of his life.
While the Maxi Mile" highlights
the meet there will be a wealth of
excitement and an abundance of
stars in other events. Jimmy Ke-
hoe, Maryland's great half-miler
will be shooting for a, record and
his second leg on the trophy in the
Rectors 1000. He's up against
stout opposition in Charley aMacie-
ski Of Seton Hall, Vincent Healey,
Navy; Fred Hardy, North Carolina,
and Johnny Corbet OF the host
school,
The handicap mile will bring back
Norman Gordon, crack Penn State
athlete of a few years ago, who is
challenging Tommy Fields, Mary
lands defending titleholder.
The Abbey so, featured sprint.
pits Champion Johnny Maher Of
Villanova against Leon Chapot of
Navy and other top-ranking aces
Maryland is favorite to retain
its team championship in the COL
legiate division and West Catholic
OF Philadelphia is sending a large
team to help defend its scholastic
crown.