WORLD’S FASTEST MILER

Patea Mail, 3 October 1938, Page 3

WORLD’S FASTEST MILER

WOODERSON’S RECORDS Experts are already tipping Sydney C. Wooderson for Olympic honours in 1940 at Helsinki. This spectacled London bank clerk bias broken two more world’s running records, the halfmile and the 800 metros, although! ,hi« primary attack was on the 880 yards figures. Already the fastest man ever.to cover a mile, Wooderson came through his test at Motspur Park on August with flying colours. in a specially t'rnwHj Ptee, the frail-lookling Elackhcdtli hairici streaked along to cover the half-mile in 1m 49. 0.4 s faster than Elroy Robinson, the Amterican, who set up the previous best figures of 1m 48s in New York on July 11 last year. Moreover, Wooderson beat tlhe 800 metres record by 1.2 s in clocking 1m 48.4 s for that distance. He is perhaps the best-known British athlete in the world to-day. Twenty-four years of age, slight of build, and under sft Tin ! in height, (We Was a just 1 appreciation of his own abUity, and yet, as an •admirer write®, no athlete could be •more modest in his demeanour or more -ready to listen to the opinion of other ■athletes.