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Show The famoajt Kansas It shewn breaking the tape in the special Intermountain mile event ea the Salt Lake City track, with Ed Hart ef the Utes coming In second. Although the track was ho1consldereJTat," ClagTlnUhed"lB four minutes, tl.t aetuiidt,' fallowed by Hail and a so-leet so-leet field ef distance ranaers el the Intermountain region. The time equals the fastest mile ever run in this part ef the country, that mark having been set by Jack Squires ef Utah , In Ull. i ' . ti 1 : i War Upsets Olympics Mile Plans By LESLIE AVERY' NEW YORK, Jan. UP Glenn Cunningham plans to retire from track competition after this year; and, while that still Is more than 11 months away. It Is worthy of present recording because It refutes a growing belief that Glenn la another one host shay! That was built In tuch a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day." He Must Quit At great as he has been, as many races at he hat won, and as many records aa he haa broken, Glenn's legs have begun to tire and he realizes he must quit soon to escape the fate of Oliver Wendell Holmes' rugged vehicle: "It went to plecet all at once, All at once, and nothing first, Just aa bubbles do when they burst." The greatest middle distance run-' ner America ever produced and one of he world's great athletes, Cunningham told a nation-wide radio audience last night that "It's one of those things that can't be put off forever." The Kansan said he had remained re-mained in competition for the last two years because he had wanted to try to make his third successive Olympic team. "Now conditions on the other side have made the holding of the Olympic games Impossible, so why go on?" he asked. "For a long time I've postponed my retirement from active competition, but now to my friends and sports followers everwhere, I say this will be my last year of track competition.'' All Bun Out For an athlete, Cunningham la not to old, only 26, but he hat been at this running business a long time, since he was 8, when he began be-gan to trot about the Kansas prairie to . strengthen his legs, which were burned so badly in a schoolhouse fire that amputation was suggested. Since 1932, when he qualified for the Olympic team In Los Angeles and finished fourth to lead all the American competitors home In the 1500 meters, he has been on the big time. Eight years of running almost any distance from 440 yards up to two miles against the world's best Is apt to age any man before his time. Heart, lungs and limbs can stand Just so much, and no more. His accomplishments are almost too numerous to list. He has broken records at almost every distance dis-tance from a quarter of a mile up to and Including the mile. He still holds every collegiate mile record, the world's Indoor mile record and the World's Indoor 1000-yard record. rec-ord. But he rode to glory on the mile. He became the "mile king" when he broke the world outdoor record at the Princeton invitatalon meet in 1834. He waa clocked in 4:06.7, but the International Amateur Ama-teur Athletic federation recorded It at 4:06.8. He held that record four years until Sydney Wooder-son Wooder-son rsn a paced mile In England in 4:06 4 on August 28, 1938. Cunningham's crowning achievement achieve-ment came In the twilight of his career less than two years ago. He turned In the fastest mile ever run by man. On Dartmouth's resilient Indoor oval 6 2-3 laps to the mile Glenn ran a paced mile In 4:40.4 for a record that seems likely to remain In the books for many a day. Dresun Mile Prospect Cunnlnginham was the only man that coaches ever pictured running the "dream mile" in four minutes flat. His last start, Saturday night In the Grover Cleveland-Osceola Cleveland-Osceola games here, was a winning one, but a poor performance for him. |