New Zealander Smashes World’s Record

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7210, 17 July 1933, Page 7

New Zealander Smashes World’s Record

Lovelock’s Amazing Performance

CLIPS NEARLY TWO SECONDS OFF FASTEST TIME EVER RECORDED United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday, 10.50 p.m. NEW YORK, July 15. At Palmer Stadium at Princeton, New Jersey, shattering all world records for a one-mile run, John Lovelock, Oxford University and Otago (New Zealand) University, to-day reeled off the distance in the epoch-making time of 4 min. 7.G secs., scoring a decisive triumph over Bill Bonthron, the Princeton star, in the feature *race of the track meet of the combined forces of Oxford and Cambridge and Cornell and Princeton. A fast paco was set all the way, Lovelock following Bonthron stride for stride until the homo stretch. Ho then stepped out and won going away by a margin of seven yards despite the “Tiger’s” gallant attempts to sustain the last lap spurt.

The New Zealander wiped out tho world record of 4min. 9 I-ssoc. made by Jules Ladoumegue (France) at Paris in 3931. Bonthron’s time, 4min. S.7scc., also bettered tho world's record irx the most remarkable mile ever run anywhere. The outcome of tho taco surpassed the most sensational expectations, putting Lovelock in a class by himself among the world’s great milers.. IBs time is more than two seconds faster than the best mile ever previously run in tho United States. The stopwatch showed that Lovelock raced the last 410 yards in 58.9 seconds. The British Universities secured a

victorious start when John Thornton (Cambridge) defeated his team mate Charles Standwood (Oxford), the favourite, 'n the record time of 14.8 seconds for tho 120 yards high hurdles, wiping out the previous record for tue meeting of 15.4 seconds. Cornell and Princeton defeated Oxford and Cambridgo by eight first places to six. Bonthron, after tiring in his contest with Lovelock, came back in the half-mile to outsprint Pen Hallowed, of Oxford, and a former Havard ace. in a new meet record of lmin 53sce.