Sport: Milers

The three most famed mile runners in the U. S. are Glenn Cunningham, who holds the world's indoor record of 4:08.4; Bill Bonthron, who last year beat Cunningham in three races out of five; Gene Venzke, who held the record three years ago, last season functioned as pacemaker for the other two.

In Manhattan last week, a crowd of 16,000 went to see Venzke, Bonthron and Cunningham renew their rivalry, found that Venzke had learned the trick of sprinting at the finish, that Bonthron had lost it, that Cunningham was as fast as ever. When Cunningham broke the tape he was 2.6 sec. short of his record but he was first by 7 yd. Venzke, who had sprinted into the lead on the next to last lap, was second. Bonthron, in his first start of the season, was third by 20 yd.