NEW YORK NEWSPAPER’S TRIBUTE
Rec! 11 p.m. NEW YORK, Dec. 30. The New York Herald-Tribune today published an editorial tribute to Dr Jack Lovelock, the New Zealand Olympic champion, who was killed by a subway train on Wednesday. The newspaper said Lovelock could run a mile faster than almost anybody. “ Some people think he could have outrun anybody who ever lived. Lovelock’s feats lent substance to the dream of a four-minute mile still unattained. Perhaps he might have achieved it if he had been pushed hard enough.’ A decade after his retirement, his triumphs were so fresh in memory that one could let A. E. Housman’s To An Athlete Dying Young ” stand as his epitaph:—
Now you will not swell the rout of lads that wore their honours out, , , Runners whom renown outran and the name died before the man.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27277, 31 December 1949, Page 5
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