MILE RECORD BROKEN.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20909, 17 July 1933, Page 9

MILE RECORD BROKEN.

LOVELOCK'S GREAT PERFORMANCE. TIME—4 MINUTES 7 3-5 SECONDS. BRILLIANT RACE IN AMERICA

(CSI'J'ED TRESS ASSOCTATIO;; —BT ELICTJUC TELEGRAPH—COPYMG'.IT.'I (Received June 16, 8.21 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 15. At the Palmer Stadium, Princeton, New Jersey, J. E. Lovelock (Oxford University and University of Otago, New Zealand) broke the world's record for one mile, running the distance in 4min 7 3-ssec, and scoring a decisive triumph over Bill Bonthron, the Princeton star. The mile was the most important race of the track meeting between the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge and those of Cornell and Princeton.

A fast pace was set all the way, Lovelock following Bonthron stride for stride until the home stretch. Then he stepped out and won going away by a margin of seven yards despite Bonthron's gallant attempts to sustain his spurt in the last lap. The New Zealander wiped out the world's record of 4min 9 l-ssec made by Jules Ladoumegue (France) at Paris in 1931. Bonthron's time of 4min B.7sec was also better than the previous world's record. It was the most remarkable mile ever run anywhere. The outcome of the race surpassed the most sensational expectations, putting Lovelock in a class by himself among the world's great milers. His time was more than two seconds faster than the best mile ever previously run in the United States. The stopwatch showed that Lovelock raced. the last 440 yards in 58.9 sec. !

The British universities secured a victorious start when John Thornton (Cambridge) defeated his teammate, Charles Standwood (Oxford), the favourite, in the record time of 14 4-ssec for the 120 yards high hurdles, wiping out the previous record for the meeting of 15 2-ssec. Finally, however, Cornell and Princeton beat Oxford and Cambridge by eight first places to six. Bonthron, after his tiring race with Lovelock, came back in the halfmile to outsprint Pen Hallo well (Oxford), the former Harvard runner, in a new record for the meeting.of lmin 53sec.