Spotlight On ... S.Wooderson
Sydney Wooderson, the world mile record-holder, who amazed twenty-eight thousand people by running last in the “Mile of the Century” ' against .the cream of American distance men at the Princeton University athletic meeting, New Jersey. Wooderson first came into prominence by defeating Jack, Lovelock in the British athletic championship, and in August, 1937, reduced Glen Cunningham’s mile record by one-fifth of a second, to 4min. 6 3-ssec. A year later, also at Hotspur Park, the Englishman made a new world record for the half-mile of Imin. 491-5 sec., and also holds the 800 metres and three-quarter milie records. Last week he ran a mile in 4min. 7 4-ssec.
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Northern Advocate, 19 June 1939, Page 4
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