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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
SPORTS
TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1940.
Track Talk
By Larry Winn
With the hope that track can be brought back into the spotlight it occupied in this section of the country ten years ago, I attended the Missouri Valley A. A. U. Indoor Relays last night. They were held under the auspices of the Finnish Relief Committee in Kansas City, Mo.
The supposedly big drawing card was the special invitational world's championship two-mile race, featuring the famous "Flying Finn," Taisto Maki, who is touring this country to drum up some cash for the Finnish cause. With him was his famous manager, the "Phantom Finn," Paavo Nurmi, who is probably the greatest distance runner of all time.
Runners that were supposed to give him the most competition were Glenn Cunningham, who needs no introduction in this column; Archie San Romani, of Emporia; and an outsider or supposedly a "has been" named Walter Mehl, of Wisconsin.
The unknown came through to defeat the ruddy-faced Finn by a good foot in what was one of the best races ever staged in this section of the country. After Maki had set a fairly fast pace, followed in order by Cunningham, San Romani, and Mehi; the former Emporia flash dropped out on the 17 lap. Not until next to last lap did the Wisconsin "swede" start his "kick." He passed a fast tiring Glenn and started for the "Flying Finn." On the last lap the two were matching each other stride for stride, but with about 100 feet to go, it seemed as if the Finn was going to keep his famous record clear, the stubborn Mehl challenged again about 20 feet from the tape and passed the fighting Maki just as both hit the finish line. The time of 9:05.5 seconds was comparatively slow in that all three runners had run faster two-mile races before.
Paavo Nurmi then showed the small crowd how he had broken almost every world's distance record from two to six miles. His perfect time and perfection of rhythm were still obvious, even at the age of 43. He jogged six laps, or a half-mile in 2.18 seconds, which is still plenty good for that distance.
Track Squad Rates High In K.C. Meet
By Jay Simon
The Jayhawker track squad turned in a classy exhibition amid classy surroundings last night at the Missouri Valley A. A. U. carnival in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium.
Firsts in two relays, a third in another, J. R. Jones' blue ribbon in the broadjump, Bill Beven's tie for top honors in the pole vault, and thirds by Darrell Mathes in the 60-yard dash and Charles Toberan in the mile were the collection of places racked up by the Kansans.
Team points were not figured on the meet, but if computations were made on a 10-6-2 basis for relays and 5-3-1 for individual events, the Jayhawkers ranked second with 33 points to Pittsburg Teachers' 36.
The Kansas sprint medley team, composed of Hamilton, Mathes, Greene, and Thompson, outfooted a speedy Emporia state quartet to win the 14 lap race in 2:53.9.
In the University mile relay Kansas was the only team entered and was awarded first place without running.
Training
Beven did his best vaulting of the season when he crossed the bar at 12 feet 9 inches to tie with Wilson of Tarkio. He barely missed his last try at 13 feet.
Jones, Kansas' Big Six indoor broadjump champion, leaped 22 feet 7 and seven-eighths inches to nose out Schumitzky of Missouri for first place.
Mathes won his heat in qualifying for the 60, then placed third to Woody Kramer of Pittsburg and Timmons of Baker in a 64 race. Mathes was only a scant foot behind as all three finished under a blanket. In the open mile Toberan finished third behind McMillian of Wichita and Zarker of Emporia.
In the feature event of the evening Glenn Cunningham, the former Jayhawk flyer, went out of his distance to run the two-mile with Taisto Maki, Walter Mehl, and Archie San Romani and finished only 15 yards back of Mehl and Maki in a fast 9:05.5 race.
For 22 of the 24 laps, it was Maki,
Cunningham, and Mehl in that order.
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except for a short while on the twelfth round when San Romani made a bid for the lead, but then the Wisconsin boy passed Cunningham and went into the bell lap
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