ATHLETICS
SCHOOLBOY’S NEW RECORD.
[per press association.]
TIMARU, October 28.
V. P. Boot smashed Lovelock’s 1928 mile record 4min 44 2-ssec in a special attempt in the senior championship race at the Timaru Boys’ High School sports, this morning. Boot, who was unpaced after a circuit and a half, established a new record in a sensational time for a schoolboy of 4min 26 4-ssec. The lap times were 67, 71, 68. and 60 4-ssecs.
Earlier in the week, Boot lowered Lovelock’s 880 record 2min 5 l-ssec, clipping off 5 l-ssecs, doing the distance in 2min. dead.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 1933, Page 7
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