LOVELOCK'S PROGRESS
B£ST TIME IN NEW ZEALAND The proudest man in Duncdin to-day is W. Drydcn, who trained J. E. Lovelock when he was in D (media', although even ho can hardly have expected his protege to have improved by 18 l-ss. Lovelock' started running . ill open competition in tho 1928-29 season, and his trainer, perceiving.that he was a natural miler, concentrated on that distance, .. although lie' allowecl * his charge to run half-miles on occasions'. In his first season Lovelock ran second in tho Otago mile championship to J. G. Barnes, the present Otago and New Zealand mile champion, and in the next two years he won the Otago title. His first run in a . New Zealand title .mile was at Wanganui, where ho was fourth to C. V. Evans. In 1931 he ran third to Gordon Bayno on a rain-soaked track, at Duned.in, beating Rufus Kiser and R. A. Rose. Then he went-to England. His hest mile in New Zealand was 'Jm 25 4-ss, when ho ran fourth at Wanganui. s
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21553, 26 July 1933, Page 14
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