Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-04-20 | Page 10 | Glenn Runs Last Race at Kansas

Glenn Runs Last Race At Kansas MOUNT VERNON Iowa April 20 UP UP Glen Glen Cunningham the former worlds world's champion mile runner will join the faculty of Cornell college next September The announcement of Cunningham's Cunninghams Cunninghan's Cun Cun- a appointment p p pol o I n t m men e n t was made today by J J. J B. B Magee l president president dent of the college By HAROLD CLAASEN LAWRENCE K Kan m. m April 20 UP tIP p Sentiment as much as athletic curiosity brought the crowd to the eighteenth annual University of Kansas relays Saturday For almost a decade Glenn Cunningham Cunningham Cunningham Cun Cun- the dethroned king of the worlds world's milers has been a featured featured fea tea performer Today he makes his farewell appearance for those who saw saw him develop from a scarred flame-scarred high school athlete at Elkhart Kan high school to toan toan toan an Olympic hero and the worlds world's nearest approach to a perpetual motion running machine Ready to Retire Cunningham has announced he will retire this summer and only a few dates are left on his program program program pro pro- gram unless European troubles subside enough to permit the OlympIcs Olympics pies in Finland For the past three years he has bounced over Memorial stadiums stadium's cinders in poor condition His duties as an ambassador of good goodwill goodwill will in the University of Kansas' Kansas extension department kept him on the highways and the constant driving stiffened his muscles This spring however he has spent two weeks in hard training In his final hard workout he raced through a half haIt mile mlle in and coasted to the finish in Elaine Blame and Wayne Rideout the tiptoeing twins from North Texas Teachers and Archie San Romani from near-by near Emporia were to furnish the opposition today The best athletes 48 of the nations nation's nations nation's nations nation's na na- na- na tion's colleges and universities could produce were to assault the record books in a program of eight special events and 14 relay races Todd Holds Lead E. E Lee Todd graduate student at Colorado university led by a narrow margin at the way half-way point in decathlon competition to today today today to- to day but a pair of athletes from Michigan threatened his hopes of winning the grind two years in succession Todd compiled points in the first five events scoring victories in t the e and meter runs Walter Arrington of Michigan State with triumphs in the broad broadi and high jumps was only 29 points behind and Uyval Jones of Wayne university was third with The standings before today's program program program pro pro- gram of the meter nO-meter high hurdles hurdles hurdles hur hur- the discus throw pole vault javelin throw and meter 1500 run got under way E. E Lee Todd Tod unattached Walter Arrington Michigan State Uyval Jones Wayne university vs Leroy Floyd ofa Oklahoma A. A YM II 55 g 3 Louis Chisholm Oklahoma Baptists Woodrow Hutchinson N. N M M. Normal Ted Billings Colorado college Bob Davenport G. G college Ralph Tate Oklahoma A. A 8 M M. W. W L. L Clapham unattached 3 Charles a s Larson Stockton Culver ton Don Menning Central Iowa college Orville Orvllle Bonham unattached 2662 John Mitchell Oklahoma university 2121