LOVELOCK LOSES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 243, 11 September 1933, Page 7

LOVELOCK LOSES.

ITALIAN’S GREAT WIN.

WORLD RECORD EQUALLED. LONDON, Sept. 9. At Turin, Luigi Beccali defeated J. E. Lovelock, the New Zealand runner, by five vards in tho final of the 1500 metres at the International University Games. The time was 3miri. 49 l-ssec., equalling Jules Ladoumegud’s world record. The duel aroused tremendous interest. The Italian set a terrific pace, dropping all except Lovelock. The pair at half-way were leading the ethers by 60 yards. Beccali three times attempted to drop tlie New Zealander, who responded gamely. Beccali, in a final sprint, won the finest race of his career. He finished strongly and afterward embraced and kissed Lovelock repeatedly.

Luigi Bcccali at tho Olympic Games at Los Angeles last year won tho 1500 metres event in 3min. 51 l-sscc., which is tho present Olympic Games record. Lovelock, in winning his heat in this event at Los Angeles, registered 3min. 58sec. Tho world’s record is 3min. '49 l-ssec., which was established by the Frenchman, Jules Ladoumegue, at Paris in October, 1930. Tho present Games at Turin are tho fifth that have been bold. The programme embraced contests in athletics, Association football, rowing, swimming, and water polo, basketball, lawn tennis, Rugby football, and fencing. The meeting is at Mussolini Stadium, which was constructed by the city of Turin so as to have a worthy place for the University Games and for the annual national games in relation to tho Littoriali of the eleventh year of the Fascist era. Tho stadium covers, about 100,000 square metres of land.