’VARSITY ATHLETICS

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 July 1933, Page 6

’VARSITY ATHLETICS

LOG ELOCK’S NEW MILE RECORD. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, July 15. At the Palmer Stadium, Princeton, New Jersey, shattering all world’s records for the one mile run, John Lovelock, of the Oxford University and Otago University, to-day reeled off the distance in 4min. 7.65ec., thereby scoring a decisive triumph over Bill Bonthron, the Princeton University, star, in the feature race of the track meeting of the combined forces of. the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and of Cornell and Princeton. A fast pace was set all the way, Lovelock following Bonthron stride for stride until the home straight. Then he stepped out, and won going away by‘a margin of seven yards, despite the “Tiger’s” gallant attempt to sustain a last lap spurt.

The New Zealander wiped out the world record of 4min. 9 4-ssec„ made by Jules Ladoumezue, of France, at Paris in 1931. Bonthron’s time 4min. B.7sec also bettered the world’s record, in 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 is more than two seconds faster than the best mile ever previously run in the United States. Tho watch showed Lovelop race the last 440 yards in 58.9 sec. The British Universities secured a victorious start when John Thornton (Cambridge) defeated his team mate, Charles Stanwood (Oxford), the favourite, in the record time of 14.8 sec. lor the 120 yards high hurdles, wiping out the previous record for the meeting of 15.4 sec. Eventually, Cornell and. Princeton

defeated Oxford and Cambridge by eight first places to six. Bonthron, after his tiring contest with Lovelock, came back in the half mile to outsprint Pen Hallowell, of Oxford, and a former Harvard University ace, in the new meeting record of lmin. 53sec. DUTCH SPORTS. AMSTERDAM, July, 16. Arthur Norris won the marathon 26.4 miles Olympic Games course, in 2 hours 32 minutes 54 3-5 seconds. Gutteridge won the eight hundred metres in 1 minute 58 seconds.