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A small boy, burned in a rural schoolhouse fire, became the pride and joy of the Kansas Relays in the 1930s.
Glenn Cunningham dominated the Relays with his performances in the mile, running first and high school second. He was later for the Kansas City Athletic Club.
By CYNTHIA CURRIE Sports Writer
Cunningham delights crowds breaks mile records of 1930s
HIS FORMANCES billed the fact that doctors had told him he would never walk again. Despite their predictions, Cunningham not only ordered to lumber the injuries incurred by the severe burns on his legs, he ran.
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And run he did. The "Iroman of the Track" won every 2-mile race his first year at KU, set Big Six indoor and outdoor mile records and placed fourth in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles, the first U.S. athlete to finish. One year later Cunningham was the captain of an elite team that competed in northern Europe; that year he ran 32 races, varying in length from 800-meter to 2-mile, and won 29.
He ran in nine of the Relays of the decade, and by 1898 he had drawn the largest crowds in the 16-year history of the Relays to Memorial Stadium.
OVERSHADOWING THE other events of the decade, Cunningham constantly attempted to beat his own records and run excited races. He ran into trouble with the Nascar team in 1976. Archie San Romani of Italy came to the Relsy to compete against Cunningham; Romani raced again in Kansas in 1938. However, not until 1939 did Cunningham beat Charles Fensale, who won a race for the admirers at home.
At that race the crowd of 12,000 cheered Cunningham as he paced himself around the track. As he turned the far corner and began his famous
kick the crowd roared, spurring him onto a victory five yards ahead of his closest competitor.
The time was 4:29.2, a slow race, but still a victory for Cunningham and Kansas. It was a fitting end to the dominated by the Kansas tracker.
But Charles fought to keep his decathlon title in the next Relys. "Jarring Jim" Bausch won the event, and he was named a finalist. The was remedied. The change gave Bausch an additional 100 points and the tauch. Bausch amassed 8,022.40 points, taking five of the 10 events and coming in second for points of the world record at that time.
Charles and Cunningham were the names in the headlines. The boldest type on the front page of the University Daly Kansan read;
BUT THERE WERE other athletes who performed brilliantly in the Kansas Relays of the '80s. At the turn of the century Jim Bausch of Kansas and Sam Bahr of Wisconsin battled for the shotput title. Cy Leland, the "Flying Frog" from Texas Christian, ran 100-yard dash in 9.4 seconds and Wilson
"Buster" Charles of Haskell won the decathlon by 120 points. ""
Dedicated to Memory of George Saling
Iowa Hurdler."
Sailing won the high hurdles in the Olympics and set several Kansas Relay records. Several days before the Relays he was killed in an automobile accident. It was the second time an athlete had been honored at the Relays. Knute Rocke, former Notre Dame football coach, who was killed in a plane crash, was also honored by one minute of silence in the Memorial Stadium.
"SIX KANSAS RELAYS Records Fall; Buster Charles Loves Decimation; Cunningham Sets New Mark to Win 1500-meter Event; Games are
The final Rivals of the decade brought 12,000 fans and more than 90 schools to Memorial Stadium. Six meet marks were shot down, including the stadium, pole vault, collegiate distance medley relay and collegiate spring medley.
The Relayes of 1936 were selected by the AAU as trials for the Olympic team that would represent the United States at Berlin that summer. Extra events added to the meet for the trials included a 3,000-meter steeplechase, 400-meter race and swimming. The team now the triple jump. The Relays decathlon was one of only two contests competed before the Olympics and an astonishing 23 athletes entered.
THEERE WERE MORE than 50 schools entered and 12,000 people watched as Don Elson of Notre Dame heaved the shotput more than 48 feet and Cunningham ran the 1,500-meter and won with a time of 3.571.
Wolcott of Rice Institute won the high hurdles and Elmack Hurder of Kansas State sent the 16-pound shotput flying for 52-1/2 feet.
Despite the variety of talented athletes that competed in the 1930 Kansas Relays, Glenn Cunningham held the state of Kansas and the Relays in the palm of his hand. For the next three years he was a part of his running tradition, as would other athletes who would compete in future relays.
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