ATHLETE TIRED OF STUDY
(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, May 11. Derek Johnson, the British halfmiler, thinks there ought to be “a Jack Kramer of athletics,” according to the “Daily Herald.” It quoted him as saying: “For £20,000 a year I’d be prepared to sleep four hours a day and run for the other 20.” Johnson was tired of studying, according to the newspaper. A medical student, he had been studying for five years and had two years and a half to go. “If there was a Kramer circus in the athletic world—and I think there ought to be —I would jump on the band waggon.”
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28893, 13 May 1959, Page 11
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