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Show CyoTumSiniglhiiinfii Sees Mew lecird By RICHARD W. RANDOLPH MOUNT VERNON. Iowa, Jan. 13 i INS ("Almost any of the present milert might set a new" record if he concentrated on It," said Dr. Glenn Cunningham today to-day In a discussion of the forthcoming forth-coming Indoor track season and hit Job at director of student health service here at little Cornell Cor-nell college. Cunningham, w ho ran the fastest fast-est mile ever clocked when he whisked over the Dartmouth boardi in 4:04.4 In 19.18, no longer la greatly interested in the (port which established him among thil country' all-time greatest athletes, ath-letes, but he itiU works out occasionally oc-casionally in a gradual tapering off process from his years of big-time competition. In any case, he won't be back on the boards and cinders again. A perennial contender in the major meets and more often than not the winner in his specialty, he has left all that behind him, and will concentrate henceforward hencefor-ward on his new duties. "I should have quit running two years ago," Cunningham said. "The constant traveling I did for Kansas university was not conducive to competitive running." run-ning." "I'm too busy and too interested inter-ested in my job to think much about what is going to happen in the track world," he said In response re-sponse to a query as to what he thought of 1941 track prospects or of the chance of a four-minute mile being run in the near future. Dr. Cunningham he's a full-fledged full-fledged Ph.D. leads a life much like any other college professor. And he likes it. In addition to his work as director of the college's col-lege's new health department which he helped to organize, he teaches classes In personal hygiene hy-giene and biology. "Actually, this Is the sort of work I was preparing for during all the years I was In the track limelight," the former champion explained. "My undergraduate work at Kansas, and my graduate gradu-ate work at Iowa, where I got my master's degree, and at New York university, where J received my doctorate, was done largely in the field of health supervision." Cunningham began and ended his track career in Kansas, and it was his center of operation during the greatest years of his running. He set a national in-terscholastlc in-terscholastlc mile record of 4:24.9 when he was still In high school at Elkhart, Kan. He entered the University of Kansas in 19.10. Twice he represented the United States at the Olympics, and in March, 1938, he ran his 4:04.4 mile at Dartmouth. His best outdoor time was made at Princeton In 1934, when he set a mark of 4:06.7. |