Fifth Olympic run foiled
NZPA-Reuter Montreal The phantom Olympic gold medallist has been foiled by elaborate security at the Montreal Games. Dr John Lucas, the American university professor w’ho staged—and won—his own 10.000 metres at the last four Olympics by running around an empty stadium, admits his chances in Montreal are slim. In Rome, Tokyo. Mexico Citv and Munich. Dr Lucas, a 49-year-old physical education professor from Penn State University, ran his own dawn races. He imagined he was coming first ahead of athletes like the 10,000 metres Olympic winners. Emil Zatopek and Lasse Viren.
“Things don’t look good here,” he said. “I’ve been to the stadium at dawn every day but it’s always tightly guarded and they won’t let me in.’’ Dr Lucas said he considered running a repeat event in the middle of the night, “but not with all those armed guards around.”
Junior Inter-elub golf title.— Windsor beat Coringa, 5-1, to retain the junior inter-club golf championship and win the G. W. A. Green Memorial Trophy at Hare wood on Sunday.
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