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other comokitors tate the ground. It is hardly necessary for me to tell of
the struggles of Glenn Cunningham. It is legiony but for those who have not
heard - Cunningham camo from a modest home in a small southwestern Kensas
town - Elkhart - whore he suffered torrible burns in a school-house fire in
which his brother lost his life. Ho was told that he could novor walk again
on account of the burns. And finally, when those burns hoaled sufficiently
for him to got cbout on crutches, ho was told that he must stey out of doors
and endeavor to use those legs as much as possiblo, stretching the members
so that some day he might hope to walk. When ho learned to walk again, natur-
ally the boy in him dosired to rune With great ccstacy he felt « thrill and
a joy that had not been his for years. Naturally, he continacd tO rune

When some pricoless horitage is taken from us for a time and is then
regained, the joy is ovorwhelming.

Cunningham ran more and mores He, of course, trioed his skill against
other boyse Still he was invincible, and ho continued to rune Ho ran at the
Kansas Interscholastic moot in Lawrence. He bocame « champion. He ran at
the National Interscholastic moet in Chicago. Again ho was a champion. He
ran the two mile, tho mile, and the half mile - all in one day, at the Big
Six meet in Lincoln, Nebraska. He was thrico champion. He ontored the National
Collegiate Championship track end ficld moet, and was again crownod "King of
Milers". And then at Princeton, New Jersey, when tho world's best runners matched
their strides with his, he ran the fastest mile over run by a hwian being. and
who knows but that the very thing that mado him a champion was the adversity
that he suffered in carlicr yoarse

Theodore Roosevelt, during his years as Presicent of the United States,
continuously used athlotic figures of speech to oxpress his thoughts to the mul-

titudee Two weeks ago President Franklin. D, Roosevelt, true to the Roosevelt